Reduce is a function or method that is used to take the values in an array or a list and apply a function to successive members of the list to produce (or reduce them to), a single value.



Task

Show how reduce (or foldl or foldr etc), work (or would be implemented) in your language.



See also

 Wikipedia article:   Fold
 Wikipedia article:   Catamorphism


# sum:
p (1..10).inject(:+)
# smallest number divisible by all numbers from 1 to 20:
p (1..20).inject(:lcm) #lcm: lowest common multiple
 