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Simple Addition Multiplication in Python (Python recipe) by Captain DeadBones
ActiveState Code (http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578565/)

Here is a very simple program in Python to multiply 2 numbers. I worte for my blog Captain DeadBones Chronicles

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import sys

def main(argv):

	if len(argv) != 2:
		sys.exit('Usage: simple_multi.py <a> <b>')
		
	a = int(sys.argv[1])
	b = int(sys.argv[2])
	sum = 0
	
	for i in range(a):
		sum += b
		
	print "The result of " + str(a) + " times " + str(b) + " is: " + str(sum)

if __name__ == "__main__":
	main(sys.argv[1:])
Tags: math, multiplication, python