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Container‐based version of the <numeric> `std::accumulate()` function to accumulate the element values of a container to `init` and return that accumulation by value.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<absl/algorithm/container.h>`

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template<
    typename Sequence,
    typename T>
constexpr
std::decay_t<T>
c_accumulate(
    Sequence const& sequence,
    T&& init);
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== Description

Note: Due to a language technicality this function has return type std::decay_t<T>. As a user of this function you can casually read this as "returns T by value" and assume it does the right thing.

== Return Value

The accumulated result.

== Parameters

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| Name| Description
| *sequence*
| The container whose elements to accumulate.
| *init*
| The initial value of the accumulation.
|===


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