A simpler approach would be to allow an arbitrary number of parameters. That would allow for whatever number of dimensions you want *and* it would be backwards compatible with the current implementation.
<?php
function hypo()
{
$sum = 0;
foreach (func_get_args() as $dimension) {
if (!is_numeric($dimension)) return -1;
$sum += pow($dimension, 2);
}
return sqrt($sum);
}
print hypo(); // vector in 0 dimensions, magnitude = 0.
print hypo(1); // vector in 1 dimension, magnitude = 1.
print hypo(3, 4); // vector in 2 dimensions, magnitude = 5.
print hypo(2, 3, 6); // vector in 3 dimensions, magnitude = 7.
?>
