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Triangle

Welcome to Triangle on Exercism's Go Track. If you need help running the tests or submitting your code, check out HELP.md.

Instructions

Determine if a triangle is equilateral, isosceles, or scalene.

An equilateral triangle has all three sides the same length.

An isosceles triangle has at least two sides the same length. (It is sometimes specified as having exactly two sides the same length, but for the purposes of this exercise we'll say at least two.)

A scalene triangle has all sides of different lengths.

Note

For a shape to be a triangle at all, all sides have to be of length > 0, and the sum of the lengths of any two sides must be greater than or equal to the length of the third side. See Triangle Inequality.

Dig Deeper

The case where the sum of the lengths of two sides equals that of the third is known as a degenerate triangle - it has zero area and looks like a single line. Feel free to add your own code/tests to check for degenerate triangles.

In this exercise you are asked to declare a series of constants used to identify different types of triangles. Pick the data type you think works best for this and get the tests passing.

Afterwards, it may be worth reading about Go's predeclared identifier iota. There's an excellent write up about it here.

Source

Created by

  • @soniakeys

Contributed to by

  • @alebaffa
  • @bitfield
  • @ekingery
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  • @hilary
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  • @leenipper
  • @petertseng
  • @pminten
  • @robphoenix
  • @sebito91
  • @tleen

Based on

The Ruby Koans triangle project, parts 1 & 2 - http://rubykoans.com

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