Q. In the following program segment

#include
main()
{
int a=2;
int b=9;
int c=1;
while(b)
{
if(odd(b))
c=c*a;
a=a*a;
b=b/2;
}
printf("%dn",c);
}

How many times is c=c*a calculated?

• 4 times........
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• 2 is the answer
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• how odd(b) i.e. odd(9) works?
  I know loop.
  But odd(9) stands for?
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