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When representing sets of objects, a common requirement is to want to reduce that set down to a single object by applying a function. This object represents the final result of applying the given function to the first two elements, then taking the result of that application and applying it to the next on the sequence and so on until all elements are processed.
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Hunt, J. (2013). Foldable. In: Scala Design Patterns. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02192-8_40
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