What is the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle whose two sides are 6 and 8?
Answer:
length2 = 62 + 82 length2 = 36 + 64 = 100 length = 10
What is the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle whose two sides are 6 and 8?
length2 = 62 + 82 length2 = 36 + 64 = 100 length = 10
The formula for the length of a 2D vector is the Pythagorean Formula. Say that the vector is represented by (x, y)T. Put the vector with its tail at the origin. Now make a triangle by drawing the two sides:
side_1 = (x, 0)T side_2 = (0, y)T.
The length of side_1 is x, and the length of side_2 is y, so:
length (x, y)T = √( x2 + y2 )
In this formula, √ means the positive square root. We don't (of course) want the length to be negative.
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