Largest Area of a triangle

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hi, i was wondering if anyone could give me a hand with this program. i am writing a program to find the largest possible area of a triange. i have this basic information so far. any help would be greatly appreciated! thanks To compute the area of a triangle use the formula: area = radical (s(s-a)(s-b)(s-c)) s - (a+b+c)/2 where and a, b, and c are the three sides of the triangle. To calculate the length of the sides you can use the distance formula: radical (x1-x2)^2+(y1+y2)^2 x1,x2 is one point y1,y2 is the second point where are the coordinates of one point and is the coodinates of the second point. DATA 1. 0,0 2. 5,4 3. -7, -4 4. -2, 6 5. 4, -3 6. 1, 10 7. 0, -6

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scyphe66622y ago
ps. I just posted the basic thing.. now you've got something to work from!
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scyphe66622y ago
sounds like a homework question at the beginning of a C#-class in school. I think we did something extremely similar actually! ;) Just create a new project in VS.NET and create a textbox (textBox1 in my case), and add the following code: private void Form1_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { CTriangle obTriangle = new CTriangle(); this.textBox1.Text = Convert.ToString(obTriangle.Triangle(4,6)); } } class CTriangle { private float m_side1; private float m_side2; private float m_result; public float Triangle(float s1, float s2) { m_side1 = s1; m_side2 = s2; m_result = (s1*s2/2f); return (m_result); } } The rest is up to you... ;);) If you're doing it in the console, rewrite the code. I THINK I've got the stuff correct, lol...
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bn922y ago
the question is basically, that i need help writing this program. im really only sure where i need to end up but not sure how to get there. any help at all??
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sacresp22y ago
Is there a question somewhere?
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