Solution: min, max, factorial
examples/functional/reduce_solution.py
from functools import reduce numbers = [2, 1, 4, 3] # min print(reduce(lambda x,y: x if x < y else y, numbers)) # 1 # max print(reduce(lambda x,y: x if x > y else y, numbers)) # 4 # factorial n = 4 print(reduce(lambda x,y: x*y, range(1, n+1), 1)) # 24 # The 1 at the end is the initializor of reduce to provide # correct results for n = 0. a = [1, 3, 6] b = [2, 4, 5] c = map(lambda x,y: x if x > y else y, a, b) print(list(c)) # [2, 4, 6]