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Past exam of the year 1 of the computer science course of the University of Oxford / 2019 / Functional programming, design and analysis of algorithms / 1 / d / Solution by

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Over integers, choose s = (-), c = flip (-), and a = b = 0. The left fold and right fold both compute the negative of the sum of a finite list. The combining functions differ: s 1 2 = -1, whereas c 1 2 = 1.

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