Problem 595. Reduce - Map-Reduce

Created by Muthu Annamalai

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@bmtran (Bryant Tran) on 17 Apr 2012

could you separate your asserts into multiple cells so you can see which test case is failing?

@bmtran (Bryant Tran) on 17 Apr 2012

also, how do you define the n-ary behavior since max only takes up to 2 non-empty arguments?

Muthu Annamalai on 17 Apr 2012

I mean, n-ary operators are also supported, but I use max as a binary op.

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Fatpuss on 8 Jun 2016

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Fatpuss on 8 Jun 2016

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Freddy on 17 Apr 2012

Can't exactly understand why this is shorter than @bmtran's version.

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