👉 In computer science, a pre-accumulate is a function or method that performs an accumulation of some values before performing further processing. It's often used in loops to accumulate the results of certain operations, such as summing up all the elements in a list. For example: ```python def add_numbers(a, b): return a + b # Pre-accumulate the result by adding 10 to each element result = add_numbers(5, 3) print(result)