Problem 3108. Don't Try, give up and return NaN.

Created by Jan Orwat

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bainhome on 3 Apr 2018

Is it just me or there are some new tricks I don't know? Cauz' in test 1, the variable A became comment syntax.

bainhome on 3 Apr 2018

oh, i see, it seems some sort of brain-consumed skill involved...

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