Triangle program

[chocolate thunda]

I am asked to write a program that asks the user to enter the 2 lengths of a right triangle and make the user guess the length of the hypotenuse.

Then the program has to calculate the hypotenuse, and ask the user again for four times in a row.

If the user fails to get it right in four chances than the program should exit.

This is what I tried:

var l1,l2,hyp:int
put"Enter the lengths of 2 sides of a right angle:"
get l1,l2
put l1,l2
hyp:=sqrt((l1**2)+(l2**2))
put "Enter the estimated value of the hypotenuse:"
get hyp

after this I am stuck, does anyone know how to continue?[/list]

[Dan]

well for staters you can not uses var hyp 2 times like that. The value of hyp is being replaced with the users input.

what you whont is an if stament like this:

code:

put "Enter the estimated value of the hypotenuse:" get ans if ans = hyp then put "that is right" else put "that is wrong" end if

[chocolate thunda]

How come this doesn't work?
hyp:=sqrt(l1**2)+(l2**2)
How do you use sqrt?[/code]

[s_climax]

code:

hyp:=sqrt(l1**2)+(l2**2)

should be

code:

hyp:=sqrt((l1**2)+(l2**2))

you needed more brackets.

[chocolate thunda]

That doesn't work either...I tried.

[s_climax]

Then you are using it wrong.