hypot()

The hypot() method in Kotlin’s math class is used to calculate the hypotenuse of two numbers in a way that avoids overflow and underflow. It returns the square root of the sum of the squares of its two arguments. This is also known as the Euclidean norm of a two-dimensional vector.

Syntax

hypot(x,y)

• x: One of the two numbers whose hypotenuse is to be calculated.
• y: The other number whose hypotenuse is to be calculated.

The hypot() method returns a value of type double. The following are the special cases:

• +Inf if x or y is infinite.
• NaN if x or y is NaN and the other is not infinite.

Example

This example shows how to use the hypot() method to calculate the hypotenuse of 3 and 4:

import kotlin.math.*

fun main(){
    println(hypot(3.0,4.0))
}

The output of this code will be:

5.0