Quick question on Reduce

JavaScript
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Tell us what’s happening:
In this simple function, I am just wondering what the 0 after a+b is referring to. I searched up some documentation on reduce() and none of the other examples seem to have two arguments after =>.

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const sum = (...args) => {
return args.reduce((a, b) => a + b, 0);
}

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Challenge: Use the Rest Parameter with Function Parameters

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Reduce takes two arguments: the callback function and the initial value the reduce operation should start with (in this case, 0).

args.reduce((a, b) => a + b, 0)

The function (a, b) => a + b is one argument, and 0 is the second argument

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Hi @ligaoge

The 0 has nothing to do with the arrow function. It is the second argument to reduce. This is how MDN describes it.

A value to use as the first argument to the first call of the callback . If no initialValue is supplied, the first element in the array will be used as the initial accumulator value and skipped as currentValue . Calling reduce() on an empty array without an initialValue will throw a TypeError .

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