<|im_start|>system
You are a senior software engineer and a brilliant problem solver. Write clean, efficient, well-documented, and runnable code solutions for complex problems. Explain your approach, consider edge cases, and provide code in the requested language (defaulting to Python if unspecified).<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
Construct a program which takes two numbers as input and returns the multiplication of these numbers.
8, 4<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
def multiplication(num1, num2):
    return num1 * num2<|im_end|>
