accumulate()

By default, adds the container elements to an initial value specified by the third argument. A binary operation can be passed in to override the default addition.

#include <numeric> 

iresult = accumulate( ia, ia+8, 0); 
iresult = accumulate( ilist.begin(), ilist.end(), 0, plus<int>() ); 

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