Is this how you would use slices in the twoples challenge?

Okay, so I realize that you don't need to use slices to pass this challenge (I've already done it two other ways without slices and passed) but I'm trying to figure out if this is what it should be if you do use them. On another question Kenneth Love wrote, "Slices can save you a step. You have to multiply all of the values in *args, right? And you can't start multiplying by 0. So you set a default value of 1...but why? You already have the first number in *args, so use that and then loop through args[1:]." I don't see how this is saving a step so is this not what he meant?

def multiply(*nums):
    total = nums[0]
    for num in nums[1:]:
        total *= num
    return total

I might have just figured out the answer right after typing all this up (based on another commenter) but is it that it doesn't save a step in the code but rather the computer makes one less loop?