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.
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Raymond Watt
on 25 Nov 2017
ez
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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
regexp cheat
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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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