Re: Programming question

On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Rodger Boots wrote:

> On a unit I used to be on at my Real Job they just did this:
> Take the smaller of xlength or ylength, multiply it time 3, divide
> by 2, and add the result to the larger of xlength or ylength. The
> result is a close approximation of the square root of the sum of
> the squares.

Are you sure about that ?

For say 2 and 3:
Sqrt (2^2 + 3^2) = sqrt(13) = 3.6

( (2*3) / 2 ) + 3 = 6

Or am I missing something ?

-Chris

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Received on Wed Oct 27 17:29:22 1999