SICP exercise 1.03

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Problem

Define a procedure that takes three numbers as arguments and returns the sum of the squares of the two larger numbers.

Solution

We can use the compound procedures square, sum-of-squares and >= that were defined earlier in sections 1.1.4 and 1.1.6 of the text:

Here's a procedure that implements a solution to the problem:

Tests

To test the solution, we can pick 3 distinct arguments and try all their permutations:

Output:

25

Output:

25

Output:

25

Output:

25

Output:

25

Output:

25