Why is there no equation for the perimeter of an ellipse‽

Stand-up Maths · 21:04 · Watch on YouTube

Ellipses lack a neat closed-form perimeter formula — unlike the circle's 2πR — so the video compares a ladder of approximations (arithmetic mean, geometric mean, RMS, Ramanujan's two formulas, and two homemade "Parker...

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