>> At one time Guido mentioned adding a built-in product() function to
>> cover some of the remaining use cases of the built-in reduce().
Martin> What is the use case for product()?
As I recall, there were basically two uses of reduce(), to sum a series or
(less frequently) to take the product of a series. sum() obviously takes
care of the first use case. product() would take care of the second.
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