reduce in loop

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Why does the following fail with the Traceback?

def add(x,y): return x+y
for rrr in range(1,20):
        reduce(add, range(1, r))

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 2, in <module>
TypeError: reduce() of empty sequence with no initial value
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