Problem 2022. Find a Pythagorean triple

Created by Tanya Morton

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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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Jean-Marie Sainthillier on 13 Dec 2013

See Problem 1550 Can I make a right triangle ?

Justin Illingworth on 22 Oct 2019

Thanks Tanya, have enjoyed these.

George Iskander on 18 Feb 2020

if (a==2|a==3)
flag=true;
end
The cases are very limited to make such a code valid

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Solution 1549876

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Axel Fiedler on 27 Nov 2018

This is a smart solution that is not cheating the system.

kirti singh on 6 Mar 2019

Logical enough!

Solution 1277427

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Rashmi Doijode on 27 Sep 2017

Great work!

Aditya Jain on 27 Sep 2017

Lol saying great work on your own solution :P

Great work :)

Rash Doij on 28 Sep 2017

Haha that's how we roll!

Solution 1119275

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Shuo Wang on 10 Feb 2017

why the leading solution size is always 10, how could that possible?

Solution 1094706

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yurenchu on 29 Dec 2016

Yeah, I know this is cheating, taking advantage of the limited test suite. I just wanted to see what the other small scores were about.

Solution 1029281

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Dan Po on 24 Oct 2016

i need to change this

Solution 815843

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Dan Po on 24 Oct 2016

hardcore brute force

Solution 659973

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Niels on 24 Apr 2015

Should work for any case and doesn't contain str2num or regexp :)

Solution 510571

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Anupam Agarwal on 8 Oct 2014

Fifth test cannot be true because 3.5^2 = 12.25
and no integer after squaring and adding will give such result

Solution 423516

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John Badawi on 9 Aug 2017

how can this be a leading solution?? Are all the cody problems like this?

Taranjot Singh on 18 May 2018

I don't understand this solution. Can you explain it ?

Solution 366056

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Jon on 6 Dec 2013

Still without str2num or regexp

Alfonso Nieto-Castanon on 8 Dec 2013

this would fail on assert(isequal(isTherePythagoreanTriple(1,4,7,9),false))

Jon on 9 Dec 2013

The benefit of a limited test suite.

Solution 363009

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Jon on 2 Dec 2013

Without using str2num or regexp

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