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Sum and product of an array: Difference between revisions
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a ← 1 2 3 4 5 ⍝ assign a literal array to variable 'a'
sum a ⍝ or simply: +/a
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prod a ⍝ or simply: ×/a
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What follows ⍝ is a comment and / is usually known as ''reduce'' in APL. The use of the ''sum'' and ''prod'' functions is not necessary and was added only to please people baffled by the extreme conciseness of using APL symbols.
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