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April 9, 2018 13:05
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Another implementation of getRandosFromArray, using an efficient shuffle function
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export const getRandosFromArray = function(arr, numRandos){ | |
let arrClone = arr.slice(0) | |
let shuffled = shuffle(arrClone) | |
let randos = shuffled.slice(0, numRandos) | |
return randos | |
} | |
// https://bost.ocks.org/mike/shuffle/ | |
const shuffle = function(array) { | |
var m = array.length, t, i; | |
// While there remain elements to shuffle… | |
while (m) { | |
// Pick a remaining element… | |
i = Math.floor(Math.random() * m--); | |
// And swap it with the current element. | |
t = array[m]; | |
array[m] = array[i]; | |
array[i] = t; | |
} | |
return array; | |
} |
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