The function hypot computes the square root of the sum of the squares of the arguments.

This function is compatible with the following targets:

ANSI

BeOS

EMB/RTOS

Mac OS

Palm OS

Win32

#include <math.h>

double hypot ( double x, double y );

Parameters for this function are:

x	double	The first value to be squared
y	double	The second value to be squared

The square root of the sum of the squares of x and y.

Hypot computes the square root of the sum of the squares of x and y without undue overflow or underflow.

• A range error may occur.
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