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Random Array Sort

Saturday November 8, 2008
You can "sort" a JavaScript array into a random order

While sorting and randomizing may seem to be somewhat opposite concepts, the easiest way to get the entries in an array into a random order in JavaScript is to sort them. We just need to override the way the entries are compared to select them at random.

Random Array Sort

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