As experienced programmers, you have undoubtedly encountered situations where you need to calculate the sum or the product of all the numbers in an array, or compute the result of applying the AND operator to all Boolean elements of an array to see whether there is any false value in that array. These are called reduction operators, which take a set or an array of elements and perform some form of computation to return only one single result.
The concept of reduction operators
Properties of a reduction operator
Not every mathematical or computer science operator is a reduction operator. In fact, even if an operator is capable of reducing an array of elements into one single value, there is no guarantee that it is a reduction...
