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[–] nicolairathjen@lemmy.world 3 points 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.