Problem 1974. Length of a short side

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Calculate the length of the short side, a, of a right-angled triangle with hypotenuse of length c, and other short side of length b.

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Jean-Marie Sainthillier on 9 Dec 2013

Tanya, you like triangles.

Phan Hoang Tao on 17 Sep 2019

Good one

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Piero Cimule on 20 Jun 2020 at 22:12

a = sqrt(c^2-b^2);

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EMRE DÜZ on 20 May 2020

good question

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Raymond Watt on 25 Nov 2017

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Augusto Mazzei on 25 May 2017

test_1 a=sqrt(3) is longer than b=1
the good solution would be
a= min(sqrt(c^2 -b^2),b)
instead

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Jon on 3 Feb 2014

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Tanya Morton on 29 Nov 2013

Kudos for finding this solution - it did indeed meet all the test cases, but wasn't quite what I had in mind! I will add a new test.

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