How does one write the Pythagoras Theorem in Scala?

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This only works on Scala 2.8, but it does work:

scala> def pythagoras[T](a: T, b: T, sqrt: T => T)(implicit n: Numeric[T]) = {
     | import n.mkNumericOps
     | sqrt(a*a + b*b)
     | }
pythagoras: [T](a: T,b: T,sqrt: (T) => T)(implicit n: Numeric[T])T

scala> def intSqrt(n: Int) = Math.sqrt(n).toInt
intSqrt: (n: Int)Int

scala> pythagoras(3,4, intSqrt)
res0: Int = 5

More generally speaking, the trait Numeric is effectively a reference on how to solve this type of problem. See also Ordering.

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