Distance

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Simple application of the Pythagorean Theorem in Python

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#!/usr/bin/python

a = input("x1: ")
b = input("y1: ")
c = input("x2: ")
d = input("y2: ")

def distance(x1, y1, x2, y2):
	xdis = x2 - x1
	ydis = y2 - y1
	hyp = (ydis**2 + xdis**2)
	hyp = hyp**0.5
	return hyp

print distance(a,b,c,d)