Hey guys
I am trying an exercise in a book I found at the library and it asks me to write a program that reads three values and determines if they could make a right sided triangle.
I have made a fairly good attempt but I think my algorithm is a bit muddled. Can
you help me out.
The code below compiles ok.
Code:
#include <iostream>
#include <cmath>
// main function - driver //////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
int main ( void )
{
double hypotenuse = 0,
sideA = 0,
sideB = 0,
squSideA = 0,
squSideB = 0,
totalSqu = 0;
std::cout << "Enter the hypotenuse: ";
std::cin >> hypotenuse;
std::cout << "Enter the sizes of the other two sides: ";
std::cin >> sideA >> sideB;
// find the square of each side
squSideA = sqrt ( sideA );
squSideB = sqrt ( sideB );
// get the total square of both sides
totalSqu = squSideA + squSideB;
if ( totalSqu == hypotenuse )
{
std::cout << "\nThis could represent a right-sided triangle\n";
}
else
{
std::cout << "\nThis could not represent a right-sided triangle\n";
}
std::cin.get(); // freeze console output window
std::cin.ignore();
return 0; // return value from int main
}