Problem 45821. Magnitude of a vector (★★★)

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font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-block-end: 9px; margin-block-start: 2px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-inline-end: 10px; margin-inline-start: 4px; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 2px; perspective-origin: 384px 10.5px; text-align: left; transform-origin: 384px 10.5px; white-space: pre-wrap; margin-left: 4px; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-right: 10px; "><a target='_blank' href = "https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/groups/2511/problems/45821-magnitude-of-a-vector/edit#a"><span style=""><span style="">href = ""</span></span></a><span style="block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 14.025px 10.5px; transform-origin: 14.025px 10.5px; unicode-bidi: normal; "><span style="">&lt;/a&gt;</span></span></div><div style="block-size: 21px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-block-end: 9px; margin-block-start: 2px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-inline-end: 10px; margin-inline-start: 4px; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 2px; perspective-origin: 384px 10.5px; text-align: left; transform-origin: 384px 10.5px; white-space: pre-wrap; margin-left: 4px; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-right: 10px; "><span style="block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 209.858px 10.5px; transform-origin: 209.858px 10.5px; unicode-bidi: normal; "><span style="">Thus, if x = [1 2 5 6], then the magnitude is √(1+4+25+36) = 8.1240.</span></span></div><div style="block-size: 22px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-block-end: 9px; margin-block-start: 2px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-inline-end: 10px; margin-inline-start: 4px; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 2px; perspective-origin: 384px 11px; text-align: left; transform-origin: 384px 11px; white-space: pre-wrap; margin-left: 4px; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-right: 10px; "><span style="block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 126.792px 10.5px; transform-origin: 126.792px 10.5px; unicode-bidi: normal; "><span style="">You cannot use the following commands:</span></span><span style="block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 1.95px 10.5px; transform-origin: 1.95px 10.5px; unicode-bidi: normal; "><span style=""> </span></span><span style="block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 84.7px 10.5px; transform-origin: 84.7px 10.5px; unicode-bidi: normal; "><span style="font-weight: 700; ">norm, sum, dot, for, while</span></span></div></div></div>

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goc3 on 8 Oct 2020

Tolerance has been added to the test suite.

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Fabio Guerra on 8 Oct 2020

Tolerance plzz 3~=3.000

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