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# Reductions
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One of the core functions in Clojure is
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[`reduce`](https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/reduce). It allows you to
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build up some result based on applying a function to each value in a
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collection. Clojure provides a similar function that builds up a (lazy)
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sequence of intermediate values as it is performing a reduce.
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This function is
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[`reductions`](https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/reductions).
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Using `reduce` to sum a collection of integers looks like this
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```clojure
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> (reduce + 0 [1 2 3 4 5])
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=> 15
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```
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whereas `reductions` performing the same task will look like this
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```clojure
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> (reductions + 0 [1 2 3 4 5])
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=> (0 1 3 6 10 15)
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```
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h/t Josh Davey
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