Returning the area of triangle

# Function to accept dimensions of a triangle and return its area.

# Offering some instructions
print("After you give me the base and the height of a triangle, ")
print("I'm going to reply with the triangle's area...")
print("          ")
height = int(input("What is the height of the triangle?  "))
base = int(input("What is the base of the triangle?  "))
print("          ")

# Defining the function for finding the area of a triangle
def triangle(height, base):
    area = (height * base) / 2
    return area

# Saving the value returned by the function
area = triangle(height, base)

# Printing the results
print("The area of the triangle is... ")
print(area)