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Non-bias random array shuffle. For more about the Fisher–Yates shuffle, see the Wikipedia article and Jeff Atwood’s post, “The Danger of Naïveté” (2007). Sauce: http://bost.ocks.org/mike/shuffle/
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function shuffle(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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