Reduce: what exactly did it do?

Did you do a reduce and get confused about how it got the final answer? Do you just want to see the computer write out it’s work? Check it:

(1,2,3).reduce({ $^a / $^b })
RESULT«0.166666666666667»

(1,2,3).reduce({"($^a / $^b)"})
RESULT«"((1 / 2) / 3)"»

(1,2,3).reduce({ $^b / $^a })
RESULT«1.5»

(1,2,3).reduce({"($^b / $^a)"})
RESULT«"((3 / 2) / 1)"»

How cool is that?

Posted Sat, Mar 7, 2009

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