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A function that calculates the average of some numbers in Clojure
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average.clj
(defn average
[numbers]
(/ (apply + numbers) (count numbers)))
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You might want to use reduce instead of apply. The former is a lot faster than the latter if you have a lot of numbers.

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Bost commented May 23, 2019

This one is better https://gist.github.com/marco-fiset/acd56b02b059b0b771c7

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