• basketsandhoes@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Can you explain this out a bit more? I’m a self-taught programmer, of sorts, and I’m not quite getting this…

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      1 year ago

      A reducer “reduces” a list of values to one value with some function by applying it to 2 values at the time.

      For instance if you reduce the list [1, 2, 3] with the sum function you get (1 + (2 + 3)) = 6.