silly math puzzle

[Wes Loewer]

Today is a national holiday which means that I have too much time on my hands, which led to this silly little math puzzle.

You have probably seen the 8/2(2+2) thing that was going around the internet a couple of months ago. The big argument was whether the answer was 1 or 16. Casios give 1, TI's gives 16. How about the Prime? Since PPL doesn't allow implied multiplication, I had to put in explicit multiplication. Look at the RETURN line and predict what you think the output will be.

Code:

#pragma mode( separator(/+;) integer(h64) )

EXPORT PUZZLE()
BEGIN
 RETURN 8/2*(2+2);
END;

Now run the program and see if you were right. ;-)

Happy Mashujaa Day!