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Guide to Java 8 Collectors: reducing()

A stream represents a sequence of elements and supports different kinds of operations that lead to the desired result. The source of a stream is usually a Collection or an Array, from which data is streamed from. Streams differ from collections in several ways; most notably in that the streams...

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