maybe some ghosts

"Your classmates asked you to copy some paperwork for them. You know that there are 'n' classmates and the paperwork has 'm' pages."

Test case: n = -5, m = -5

In what scenario would 5 minus classmates would ask me for 5 minus copies, am I imagining having friends?!

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-1 + 0 = -1 + 1 = 0 + 2 = 2

I've begun learning Python coming from doing a lot of data analytics with Excel and so I approached this with the logic I would there:

if n or m is less than 1 (in other words 0 or less) return 0, otherwise multiply n & m.

For some reason it's implying that the first case (5 and 5) are both less than 1 and returning 0 when it should be 25. I have no idea why.

Edit: I've just realised you can't specify n or m <1. It has to be n <1 or m <1

Perl translation

Perl translation

for -5,-5 your first condition true, hence function return 25. which is wrong answer