Problem 42855. Height of a right-angled triangle

Created by Jasmina Lazic

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<div style = "text-align: start; line-height: 20px; min-height: 0px; white-space: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, monospace; font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; white-space: normal; "><div style="display: block; min-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; transform-origin: 332px 31.5px; vertical-align: baseline; perspective-origin: 332px 31.5px; "><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 2px; text-align: left; transform-origin: 309px 31.5px; white-space: pre-wrap; perspective-origin: 309px 31.5px; margin-left: 4px; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-right: 10px; "><span style="display: inline; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; transform-origin: 0px 0px; perspective-origin: 0px 0px; "><span style="">Given numbers a, b and c, find the height of the right angled triangle with sides a and b and hypotenuse c, for the base c. If a right angled triangle with sides a and b and hypotenuse c does not exist, return NaN (not-a-number).</span></span></div></div></div>

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Asif Newaz on 19 Oct 2019

although i'm providing a correct solution with correct answer, it's showing assertion failed for the 1st case. other assertions are ok. help?

goc3 on 29 Sep 2020 at 2:49

The first test case has had a tolerance applied.

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Umur Ulas Harman on 12 Jul 2020

Test 1 is problematic. It does not accept the answer like 2.4000, 2.400, or 2.40. It expects exactly 2.4 which is the same. There is something wrong about test 1 format or something. Please update test 1.

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geometry poor_test_suite pythagora

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