How can I find circumference of an ellipse?

How can I find circumference of an ellipse?

Postby soha123 » Tue Mar 19, 2013 8:38 am

How can I find circumference of an ellipse?
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Re: How can I find circumference of an ellipse?

Postby Guest » Wed Mar 20, 2013 4:59 pm

There is no simple formula. You have to either numerically integrate or evaluate an infinite series which converges to the value of the integral (which isn't much different) see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipse#Circumference

Hope this helped,

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