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Sorting algorithms/Bogosort

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--description--

Bogosort a list of numbers.

Bogosort simply shuffles a collection randomly until it is sorted.

"Bogosort" is a perversely inefficient algorithm only used as an in-joke.

Its average run-time is O(n!) because the chance that any given shuffle of a set will end up in sorted order is about one in n factorial, and the worst case is infinite since there's no guarantee that a random shuffling will ever produce a sorted sequence.

Its best case is O(n) since a single pass through the elements may suffice to order them.

Pseudocode:

<pre><b>while not</b> InOrder(list) <b>do</b> Shuffle(list) <b>done</b> </pre>

--hints--

bogosort should be a function.

js
assert(typeof bogosort == 'function');

bogosort([25, 32, 12, 7, 20]) should return an array.

js
assert(Array.isArray(bogosort([25, 32, 12, 7, 20])));

bogosort([25, 32, 12, 7, 20]) should return [7, 12, 20, 25, 32].

js
assert.deepEqual(bogosort([25, 32, 12, 7, 20]), [7, 12, 20, 25, 32]);

bogosort([38, 45, 35, 8, 13]) should return [8, 13, 35, 38, 45].

js
assert.deepEqual(bogosort([38, 45, 35, 8, 13]), [8, 13, 35, 38, 45]);

bogosort([43, 36, 20, 34, 24]) should return [20, 24, 34, 36, 43].

js
assert.deepEqual(bogosort([43, 36, 20, 34, 24]), [20, 24, 34, 36, 43]);

bogosort([12, 33, 26, 18, 1, 16, 38]) should return [1, 12, 16, 18, 26, 33, 38].

js
assert.deepEqual(bogosort([12, 33, 26, 18, 1, 16, 38]), [
  1,
  12,
  16,
  18,
  26,
  33,
  38
]);

bogosort([3, 39, 48, 16, 1, 4, 29]) should return [1, 3, 4, 16, 29, 39, 48].

js
assert.deepEqual(bogosort([3, 39, 48, 16, 1, 4, 29]), [
  1,
  3,
  4,
  16,
  29,
  39,
  48
]);

--seed--

--seed-contents--

js
function bogosort(v) {

}

--solutions--

js
function bogosort(v) {
  function shuffle(v) {
    for (
      var j, x, i = v.length;
      i;
      j = Math.floor(Math.random() * i), x = v[--i], v[i] = v[j], v[j] = x
    );
    return v;
  }

  function isSorted(v) {
    for (var i = 1; i < v.length; i++) {
      if (v[i - 1] > v[i]) {
        return false;
      }
    }
    return true;
  }
  var sorted = false;
  while (sorted == false) {
    v = shuffle(v);
    sorted = isSorted(v);
  }
  return v;
}