> The obvious way is like the following, which traverse the sequence 2 times.
> Wondering what will be the efficient way...

(defn avg [coll]
  (loop [c coll tot 0 cnt 0]
    (if (empty? c)
      (/ tot cnt)
      (recur (rest c) (+ tot (first c)) (inc cnt)))))

This will loop only once.
It happens to be faster, but the difference is not explained by (count
coll) elimination only. Maybe reduce is a factor as well.

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