Hacker Rank Halloween Party

halloween_party.py

# Enter your code here. Read input from STDIN. Print output to STDOUT\
from sys import stdin
# get the first line of the input and figure out how many cases there are to run
userinput = stdin.readline()
count = int(userinput)

# do the counting work
def count_pieces(cuts):
  # divide the number of cuts in half and truncate to the nearest integer
  half_cuts = int(cuts/2)
  # find out how much is left
  other_half_cuts = cuts - half_cuts
  # get the product
  return half_cuts * other_half_cuts

# loop over the test cases and print the pieces
for _ in range(0,count):
  cuts = int(stdin.readline())
  print count_pieces(cuts)