Problem 2022. Find a Pythagorean triple

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Given four different positive numbers, a, b, c and d, provided in increasing order: a < b < c < d, find if any three of them comprise sides of a right-angled triangle. Return true if they do, otherwise return false .

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Sophia on 28 May 2024

I think for Test-7 , problem creator @Tanya should add "~" to the "flag_correct" part of the line:

assert(isequal(isTherePythagoreanTriple(a, b, c, d),flag_correct))

so it should be changed to :
assert(isequal(isTherePythagoreanTriple(a, b, c, d),~flag_correct))

Sunil on 20 Jun 2024

Pythagorean triplets are taken as positive integers , one of the test case uses irrational number for inputs ! I wish the test creator
@Tanya Morton makes appropriate change as suggested by @Sophia

Alexander on 2 May 2025

yeah took me a minute to figure out the rounding bit

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