Is it correct to use JavaScript Array.sort() method for shuffling?

Question

I was helping somebody out with his JavaScript code and my eyes were caught by a section that looked like that:

function randOrd(){
  return (Math.round(Math         


        

Answer 1

If you're using D3 there is a built-in shuffle function (using Fisher-Yates):

var days = ['Lundi','Mardi','Mercredi','Jeudi','Vendredi','Samedi','Dimanche'];
d3.shuffle(days);

And here is Mike going into details about it:

http://bost.ocks.org/mike/shuffle/