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user3185727
user3185727

Reputation: 159

Why do I keep getting the wrong output for my if statement JAVA

i'm testing sides of a triangle to see if the triangle is a equilateral or isosceles, but even when all the values are equal I still get the else output. the code in question is at the bottom, i just included the rest for reference

public static void main(String[] args) 
{
    System.out.println("  Triangle Calculator  \n");

    Scanner inputab = new Scanner(System.in);

    System.out.println("Input lenghts of sides 'a' and 'b':");
    double sideA = inputab.nextDouble();
    double sideB = inputab.nextDouble();

    System.out.println("Input the size of Angle C in degrees:");
    double angleC = inputab.nextDouble();
    inputab.close();

    double sideC = Math.sqrt((Math.pow(sideA, 2) + 
    Math.pow(sideB, 2)- 2*(sideA*sideB)*Math.cos(Math.toRadians(angleC))));     

    System.out.println("\n\t   /\\\n\t  /  \\\n\t /    \\\n\t/      \\");
    System.out.printf("   %3.1f",sideA);
    System.out.print("/        \\");
    System.out.printf("%3.1f",sideB);
    System.out.println("\n      /          \\\n     /            \\\n    /______________\\");
    System.out.printf("\t  %3.1f\n", sideC);

    double angleA = Math.asin(sideA*Math.sin(Math.toRadians(angleC))/sideC);

    angleA = Math.toDegrees(angleA);

    double angleB = 180 - angleC - angleA;

    double perimeter = sideA + sideB + sideC;

    double hf = 0.5 * (sideA + sideB + sideC);
    double area = Math.sqrt(hf*(hf-sideA)*(hf-sideB)*(hf-sideC));

    System.out.printf("\nSide a       = ");
    System.out.printf("%4.3f",sideA);
    System.out.printf("\nSide b       = ");
    System.out.printf("%4.3f", sideB);
    System.out.printf("\nSide c       = ");
    System.out.printf("%4.3f", sideC);
    System.out.printf("\nAngle A(Deg) = "); 
    System.out.printf("%5.3f", angleA  );
    System.out.printf("\nAngle B(Deg) = ");
    System.out.printf("%5.3f", angleB);
    System.out.printf("\nAngle C(Deg) = ");
    System.out.printf("%5.3f", angleC);
    System.out.printf("\nPerimeter    = ");
    System.out.printf("%5.3f", perimeter);
    System.out.printf("\nArea         = ");
    System.out.printf("%5.3f", area);


    if (sideA == sideB && sideA == sideC)
    {
        System.out.println("\nThis is an Equilateral Triangle");
    }
    else
    {
        System.out.println("\nThis is not an Equilateral Triangle");
    }

    if ((sideA == sideB && sideB!= sideC ) 
       ||(sideA != sideB && sideC == sideA) 
       || (sideC == sideB && sideC != sideA))
    {
        System.out.println("\nThis is an Isosceles Triangle");
    }
    else 
    {
        System.out.println("\nThis is not an Isosceles Triangle");
    }

Upvotes: 2

Views: 88

Answers (1)

Generic Guy
Generic Guy

Reputation: 159

Pointy is correct. I ran eclipse in debugger mode to look at the values as the program executed. I used 5 for the values of sides A and B and 60 for angleC. The result was that A and B were equal to 5.0 while side C was equal to 4.9999... There are multiple ways you could go about fixing this, but you seem capable, especially now that you know what the issue is.

Upvotes: 2

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