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$xhtml = array(
	'title' => 't_area.py',
	'subtitle' => 'Written in <span title="Programming Fundamentals">CS 1101</span> of <a href="http://www.uopeople.edu/">University of the People</a>, finalized on 2017-02-08',
	'copyright year' => '2017',
	'body' => <<<END
<img class="weblog-header-image" src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./coursework/CS1101/t_area.py.png" alt="The output of the program is &quot;96&quot;." width="671" height="183" />
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<pre># Every good program should begin with a license comment that declares the file
# as being covered by a free software license.
# 
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
# 
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
# 
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program. If not, see &lt;https://www.gnu.org./licenses/&gt;.

# These are the dimentions of our triangle.
base = 12
height = 16

# The formula specified by the assignment was this:
#
## area = 1/2 * base * height
#
# However, Python uses integer division if both numbers are integers. Basically,
# that means that:
#
## 1 / 2 == 0
#
# It&apos;s the same as if you used this:
#
## math.floor(1.0 / 2.0)
#
# We could modify the formula to use floating-point decimals instead of
# integers, but that that would have the unintended effect of causing our
# printed value to be a floating-point decimal. In many cases, that would be the
# correct behaviour, but our answer is an integer. We might as well keep it as
# an integer. Instead of changing the formula, we could also use:
#
## from __future__ import division
#
# Again though, this would have the effect of changing our printed integer into
# a floating-point decimal.
area = base * height / 2

# If we&apos;d acquired a floating-point answer instead of an integer answer, we&apos;d
# see &quot;.0&quot; appended to the answer when we printed it.
print area
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