# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Created on Wed Sep 19 14:19:16 2018

@author: sam
"""

# create a function to calculate the area of a triangle
def calculateTriangle( base, height ):
    # the operation multiplies 1/2 by base and then multiplies the result by height
    area = (1/2) * base * height
    return area;

# assign the value 12 to the variable base_input
base_input = 12
# assign the value 16 to the variable height_input
height_input = 16

# assign the result of the operation to the variable area_output
area_output = calculateTriangle(base_input,height_input)

# print the value of area_output
print(area_output);