Problem 2023. Is this triangle right-angled?

Created by Tanya Morton

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Shravankumar P on 18 Jun 2014

among a,b,c., specify the hypotenuse.

Flo Mo on 22 Sep 2016

that's the tricky part here ;) Check all combinations - too bad 'combvec' doesnt work here

Bunny Harlan on 25 Oct 2017

Passes for True, but Failing when I get to false test?? Not sure at the moment what I could be missing.

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Haoran Tian on 25 Nov 2021

nice

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Josh Klueber on 11 Nov 2021

tricky

Isabella Stellitano on 14 Nov 2021

Good problem

Isabella Stellitano on 14 Nov 2021

good problem

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Giovanni Valentini on 18 Sep 2021

A great example!

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john perkins on 4 May 2021

challenging!

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Cory Cunningham on 11 Dec 2020

Yes, I finally got it

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Adam Turner on 25 Nov 2020

The 2nd test is incorrect.

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Sofie Brammer on 28 Jan 2023 at 11:22

Creative solution :D

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Yona on 4 Mar 2015

why is it correct? only because the test case.

a=100, b=20, c=5 will flag true but it not true

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Jon on 2 Dec 2013

Without using str2num or regexp

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