A riddle (for a code snippet session, maybe)

riddle.js

// a "generic" function doing some work for us (in this case, just multiply
// value with a factor `n`)
function times(value, n) {
  return value * n;
}

// "higher order function" to generate more specific functions
function makeTimes(n) {
  return function(value) {
    return times(value, n);
  }
}

// using the specific functions (just to demonstrate, all good)
const times3 = makeTimes(3);
const times7 = makeTimes(7);
console.log(times3(3), times7(3));

// we may want to do things "in bulk", i.e. generate multiple higher order
// functions "in one go"
// This first attempt is broken, why?
function makeTimesMultipleBroken(arrayOfNs) {
  const result = [];
  for (var i = 0; i < arrayOfNs.length; i++) {
    result.push(function(value) {
      return times(value, arrayOfNs[i]);
    });
  }
  return result;
}

var someTimes = makeTimesMultipleBroken([ 4, 5 ]);
var times4 = someTimes[0], times5 = someTimes[1];
console.log(times4(3), times5(3));

// This second attempt works. Why?
function makeTimesMultiple(arrayOfNs) {
  return arrayOfNs.map(function(n) {
    return function(value) {
      return times(value, n);
    }
  });
}

someTimes = makeTimesMultiple([ 4, 5 ]);
times4 = someTimes[0];
times5 = someTimes[1];
console.log(times4(3), times5(3));