programming-examples/python/Math/Multiply two integers without using the star operator in python.py

def multiply(x, y):  
    if y < 0:  
        return -multiply(x, -y)  
    elif y == 0:  
        return 0  
    elif y == 1:  
        return x  
    else:  
        return x + multiply(x, y - 1)  
  
print(multiply(3, 5));