Add standard container functions

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Summary of Changes

• Add some helper functions for working with containers in std::
• Update documentation

Motivation

It reduces code duplication and simplifies common tasks.

Implementation

Templatized functions in util::containers.hpp provide two functions: to compute the product or sum of a container's contents and asserts that the container contains numeric data (e.g. a vector or list of numbers)

Notes

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