fixhypot(3)

✨ fixhypot(3) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Allegro manual 💖 — we're doing the fixhypot page today and it's literally the cutest lil math function you ever did see 🎀

💅 NAME 💅

fixhypot — fixed point hypotenuse. it's from the Allegro game programming library, periodt 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro.h>

fixed fixhypot(fixed x, fixed y);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so, fixhypot is a fixed point hypotenuse — and what that actually means is it returns the square root of x*x + y*y 👑

so yeah it's Pythagoras but make it fixed point ✨

now here's the tea: you could totally just calculate the formula yourself manually, and honestly nobody's stopping you, but this function should be better than doing that, because the error is much smaller 😌 like, noticeably smaller. the precision is giving main character energy. so just use fixhypot, bestie, it's the whole reason it exists 💜

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• Allegro

and that's the whole page, no cap 🌈 go forth and compute your hypotenuses with tiny error, you icon 👑

Allegro version 4.4.3 🦋 mwah, love u, bye 💖