NAME hypot - hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle given the other sides SYNOPSIS hypot(x, y [,eps]) TYPES x, y real eps nonzero real return real DESCRIPTION Returns sqrt(x^2 + y^2) to the nearest multiple of eps. The default value for eps is epsilon(). EXAMPLE > print hypot(3, 4, 1e-6), hypot(2, -3, 1e-6) 5 3.605551 LIMITS none LINK LIBRARY NUMBER *qhypot(NUMBER *q1, *q2, *epsilon) SEE ALSO ltol ## Copyright (C) 1999 Landon Curt Noll ## ## Calc is open software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under ## the terms of the version 2.1 of the GNU Lesser General Public License ## as published by the Free Software Foundation. ## ## Calc is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ## ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY ## or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General ## Public License for more details. ## ## A copy of version 2.1 of the GNU Lesser General Public License is ## distributed with calc under the filename COPYING-LGPL. You should have ## received a copy with calc; if not, write to Free Software Foundation, Inc. ## 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. ## ## @(#) $Revision: 29.2 $ ## @(#) $Id: hypot,v 29.2 2000/06/07 14:02:33 chongo Exp $ ## @(#) $Source: /usr/local/src/cmd/calc/help/RCS/hypot,v $ ## ## Under source code control: 1995/10/05 04:52:26 ## File existed as early as: 1995 ## ## chongo /\oo/\ http://www.isthe.com/chongo/ ## Share and enjoy! :-) http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/