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- From: edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Ellipsoid formula wanted
- Date: 29 Jul 1992 08:25:12 -0400
- Organization: The Ohio State University, Dept. of Math.
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- In article <148960001@hpcvra.cv.hp.com> jimd@hpcvra.cv.hp.com (Jim Donnelly) writes:
- >
- >Apologies if this is absurdly simple, but:
- >
- >Does anyone have a formula for the surface area of an ellipsoid
- >given unequal length semi-axes a,b, and c?
- >
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- The related (simpler?) problem of finding the perimeter of an ellipse
- gives rise to an elliptic integral. So the answer is not an elementary
- function of the semi-axes a, b.
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