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Answer by Ethan Bolker for What is the arc-length parameterization of an ellipse?

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You have stumbled on a well known difficult problem.

In integral calculus, an elliptic integral is one of a number ofrelated functions defined as the value of certain integrals, whichwere first studied by Giulio Fagnano and Leonhard Euler (c. 1750).Their name originates from their originally arising in connection withthe problem of finding the arc length of an ellipse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_integral


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