# File: hypotex.py
# compute the hypotenuse of a right triangle
#
# ** this does no error checking **
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# Matt Bishop, MHI 289I, Fall 2024
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# bring in the square root function
import math

#
# read in the length of the two sides, as floats
# note we handle non-numbers as an exception here!
#
try:
    x = float(input("First side: "))
    y = float(input("Second side: "))
except:
    print("you blew it! Not a number.")
else:
    # looking good . . . do the computation and print the results
    z = math.sqrt(x ** 2 + y ** 2)
    print("A right triange with sides", x, "and", y, "has a hypotenuse of length", z)
    print("        (using the square root function)")
    z = (x ** 2 + y ** 2) ** (0.5)
    print("A right triange with sides", x, "and", y, "has a hypotenuse of length", z)
    print("        (using exponentiation)")