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How to find hyptenuse of a triangle?

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IF the triangle has a 90-degree angle in it (it's a right triangle), then the length
of the hypotenuse is:

Square root of (square of the shortest side + square of the medium side).

If the triangle is not a right triangle, then it doesn't have a hypotenuse.
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