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Mess is Fisher–Yates shuffle algorithm implementation for node.js

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mess ==== Missing shuffle function for arrays in javascript. This is [Fisher–Yates shuffle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%E2%80%93Yates_shuffle), and it's very fast. ## Installation ``` npm install mess ``` ## Usage ```javascript var mess = require("mess"); console.log(mess([1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0])); // output will be something like: // [ 7, 9, 2, 0, 6, 8, 5, 3, 1, 4 ] ``` ## Why mess Because naming modules is hard and shuffle is already taken. ## Authors * [Ronald Fisher and Frank Yates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%E2%80%93Yates_shuffle) * [People on internet](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6274339/how-can-i-shuffle-an-array-in-javascript#6274398)