Description

Calculate either the length of a right triangle’s hypotenuse given the lengths of the legs, or one leg given the other and the hypotenuse.

Usage

Hypotenuse: leg ENTER leg XEQ H

Other Leg: hyp ENTER leg XEQ L

Resources

X and Y are consumed, with the answer in X.

• X: leg length on input, answer on output
• Y: hypotenuse (program H) or other leg (program L) on input
• variables: none
• flags: none

Compatibility

Written using the SwissMicros DM32, and directly importable via its statefile feature.

The code can be entered as-is into a hardware HP-32S or better. For Voyager-compatible versions, see this.

See Also

Motivation here, plus other variants.