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Comment by snackbroken

14 hours ago

Right. It's just one more thing you have to think about with Reduce that's not something you have to consider with Map/Filter.

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Lvl999Noob  6 hours ago

If you have need of a reducing operation though, you will still need to think about that value. If you are summing up a list of numbers, it doesn't matter whether you use reduce or a loop, you need to set some initial value.

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