On Saturday, 20 February 2016 at 00:42:36 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
How do you calculate the area of a triangle? Same way as you'd
do it by hand -- 1/2 base times height.
Getting the height can be tricky sometimes though, depending on
what information you know about the triangle.
I like to check wikipedia for refreshers on math tricks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle#Computing_the_area_of_a_triangle
There's formulas to follow for almost any kind of input there...
and if you have to get perimeter anyway, you are already
calculating the lengths of the sides, so I'd use the convenient
formula in there based on those very lengths!
