Talk:Hypot

Suggest merging this page into the Pythagorean addition page. They discuss exactly the same thing. The later page uses the standard mathematical term. The later page also contains references to more interesting applications of the operation, and to the numerical methods literature on how it can be efficiently computed. However the information on this Hypot page contains a concrete implementation that would be useful on the other page.

Summary: should merge, and create link. Barak (talk) 10:00, 27 April 2011 (UTC)


 * hypot exists as an explicit way to compute the Pythagorean sum using a particular algorithm. In that sense it is kind of like Atan2 or lgamma.  They exist as a method to compute a mathematical expression, but can not be assimilated to the mathematical expression they compute.--Grondilu (talk) 01:08, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

Numerical example?
Shouldn't there be a numerical example of the issues with the naive implementation?--Grondilu (talk) 01:00, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

Infinite or zero args
The "non-naive" code will fail when both x and y are infinite or both are zero. 31.162.118.53 (talk) 23:39, 15 October 2016 (UTC)