math.h - Part 3

Find Area of a Triangle Using Its Sides: C Program

If lengths of three sides of a Triangle are input through the keyboard, write a program to find the area of the Triangle.

Note:A Triangle is valid if the sum of 2 sides of the Triangle is greater than the largest of the 3 sides.

Important: In this program we assume that the user has entered valid lengths of the Triangle.

Formula To Calculate Area and Semi-perimeter of a Triangle

sp = (a + b + c) / 2.0;
area = sqrt( sp * (sp-a) * (sp-b) * (sp-c) );

where a, b and c are lengths of sides of the Triangle.
sp – Semi-perimeter.

Note: In geometry, above formula to calculate area of Triangle is called Heron’s formula (sometimes called Hero’s formula).

Find Area of a Triangle Using Its Sides: C Program

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Find Area of a Triangle Using Its Sides: C Program

#include < stdio.h >
#include < math.h >

int main()
{
    float a, b, c, sp, area;

    printf("Enter values of a, b and c\n");
    scanf("%f%f%f", &a, &b, &c);

    sp = (a+b+c)/2.0;

    area = sqrt(sp*(sp-a)*(sp-b)*(sp-c));

    printf("Area of triangle is %f\n", area);

    return 0;
}

Output:
Enter values of a, b and c
4
5
6
Area of triangle is 9.921567

Note: While calculating Semi-perimeter, make sure to divide by 2.0 and not by 2. Because division by integer number returns only the integer part of the result. So for certain inputs the result might be wrong. So always use the floating/double value while dividing in C Programs.

Note: Since we are using sqrt() method, we need to include math.h library file (header file) without fail.

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Calculate Power of a Number using pow(): C Program

Two numbers are entered through the keyboard. Write a program to find the value of one number raised to the power of another by using pow() method present in math.h library.

One Number Raised To Another using pow(): C Program

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Source Code:One Number Raised To Another using pow(): C Program

#include < stdio.h >
#include < math.h >

int main()
{
    int base, exponent;

    printf("Enter base value\n");
    scanf("%d", &base);

    printf("Enter exponent value\n");
    scanf("%d", &exponent);

    printf("%d to the power of %d is %2f\n",
           base, exponent, pow(base, exponent));

    return 0;
}

Output:
Enter base value
25
Enter exponent value
3
25 to the power of 3 is 15625.000000

Note:
pow() method is present in math.h library, so we include it at the top of our c source code.

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Calculate Area of a Circle without using math.h library: C

We can calculate area of circle if we know the value of its radius. So using that, we shall write the logic in c program to calculate the area of a circle, without using math.h library functions.

Related Read:
Basic Arithmetic Operations In C

 
#include < stdio.h >

int main()
{
    float radius;
    const float PI = 3.14;

    printf("Enter the value for radius \n");
    scanf("%f", &radius);

    printf("Area of the circle is %f\n", (PI * radius * radius));

    return 0;
}

Output:
Enter the value for radius
5.0
Area of the circle is 78.500003

Scanf(): For user input

In above c program we are asking user to enter the values for variable a and b. You can know more about scanf() method/function in this video tutorial: Using Scanf in C Program

Calculate Area of a Circle without using math.h library: C

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Whenever we declare and initialize a constant, its a convention to make use of capital letter variable. That way we can easily spot and identify a constant in our program. And as we already know, value of constant can not be changed through out the program execution.
Ex: const float PI = 3.14;

Formula for calculating Area of a circle

Formula for calculating Area of a circle is PI * radius * radius. We take value of radius from user and using above formula calculate area of the circle and output result to the console window.

Note that we’ve not used math.h library and any of its methods/functions in our program.

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