silly math puzzle

[grsbanks]

I wonder how many here ignored the #pragma statement?

It says that the decimal point is '/' and the "comma" (used to separate items in a list or the real and imaginary parts of a complex number) is '+'.

If you then replace those symbols with what we're used to seeing in the RETURN statement, you get:

Code:

RETURN 8.2*(2,2);

That should explain why you get 16.4+16.4*i