SICP Exercise 1.3 request for comments

Question

I\'m trying to learn scheme via SICP. Exercise 1.3 reads as follow: Define a procedure that takes three numbers as arguments and returns the sum of the squares of the two la

Answer 1

Using only the concepts introduced up to that point of the text, which I think is rather important, here is a different solution:

(define (smallest-of-three a b c)
        (if (< a b)
            (if (< a c) a c)
            (if (< b c) b c)))

(define (square a)
        (* a a))

(define (sum-of-squares-largest a b c) 
        (+ (square a)
           (square b)
           (square c)
           (- (square (smallest-of-three a b c)))))