# Adding a "reduce" option to the Smooth node

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/adding-a-reduce-option-to-the-smooth-node/15180>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [5 September 2019 22:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/adding-a-reduce-option-to-the-smooth-node/15180 "2019-09-05T22:59:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![dceejay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dceejay/32/38_2.png) [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)\
**Post date:** [6 September 2019 14:23 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/adding-a-reduce-option-to-the-smooth-node/15180/16 "2019-09-06T14:23:39Z")

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Though the rate limit node will reduce things based on time... rather than number of samples... Often one can correlate to the other if they arrive at a regular rate... - but if they arrive at a variable rate then the rate limit node would behave differently to the proposed solution. I still think it has some merit.

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