[mrgriffin]

From the article:

> multiplied does not: it starts off 0, and every time it is multiplied via multiplied = multiplied * count it remains 0.

The article then goes on to use that fact for some optimizations.

[kidintech]

Yeah haha, caught it just after I wrote my comment. IMO, I expected the author to talk about that right after the snippet, as it was the first thing that stuck out.