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A programmer by mistakes writes a program to multiply two numbers instead of dividingthem, how can this error be detected? a) Compiler b) Interpreter c) Compiler or interpreter d) None of the mentioned

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A programmer by mistakes writes a program to multiply two numbers instead of dividingthem, how can this error be detected? a) Compiler b) Interpreter c) Compiler or interpreter d) None of the mentioned

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The answer is d) None of the mentioned. This is because both a compiler and an interpreter are tools for translating source code written in a programming language into machine code or bytecode. They do not have the ability to understand the programmer's intent. They only check for syntax errors, not logical errors. A logical error like intending to divide but writing code to multiply instead can only be detected by the programmer during testing or code review.

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