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Inequalities for the perimeter of an ellipse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

G. J. O. Jameson
G. J. O. Jameson*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YF, e-mail: [email protected]
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The perimeter of the ellipse x2/a2 + y2/b2 = 1 is 4J (a, b), where J (a, b) is the ‘elliptic integral’

This integral is interesting in its own right, quite apart from its application to the ellipse. It is often considered together with the companion integral

Of course, we may as well assume that a and b are non-negative.

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 98 , Issue 542 , July 2014 , pp. 227 - 234
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 2014 

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