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Programming-Idioms

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Idiom #200 Return hypotenuse

Compute the hypotenuse h of the triangle where the sides adjacent to the square angle have lengths x and y.

$h = hypot($x, $y)

// before PHP 4.1
$h = sqrt($x*$x + $y*$y);
#include <cmath>
auto h = std::hypot(x, y);

h, x, y may have types float, double, long double

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