'Hello, world!' 'I am now calculating something irrelevant, but interesting.' daysPerYear = 365 hoursPerDay = 24 minutesPerHour = 60 secondsPerMinute = 60 secondsPerYear = daysPerYear * hoursPerDay * minutesPerHour * secondsPerMinute 'The percent error of pi x 10 million seconds from 1 year is ' 100 * (pi * 1e7 - secondsPerYear) / secondsPerYear 'I am done.' =============================================================================== sample session: =============================================================================== >> 'Hello, world!' ans = Hello, world! >> 'I am now calculating something irrelevant, but interesting.' ans = I am now calculating something irrelevant, but interesting. >> daysPerYear = 365 daysPerYear = 365 >> hoursPerDay = 24 hoursPerDay = 24 >> minutesPerHour = 60 minutesPerHour = 60 >> secondsPerMinute = 60 secondsPerMinute = 60 >> secondsPerYear = daysPerYear * hoursPerDay * minutesPerHour * secondsPerMinute secondsPerYear = 31536000 >> 'The percent error of pi x 10 million seconds from 1 year is ' ans = The percent error of pi x 10 million seconds from 1 year is >> 100 * (pi * 1e7 - secondsPerYear) / secondsPerYear ans = -0.3808 >> 'I am done.' ans = I am done.