Consider the following C program:
#include stdio.h
int counter = 0;
int calc(int a, int b)
{
int c;
counter++;
if (b == 3)
return (a * a * a);
else
c = calc(a, b / 3);
return (c * c * c);
}
int main()
{
calc(4, 81);
printf("%d", counter);
}
The output of this program is ________ .