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Topic: Inverting elliptic integrals
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David Powers

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Registered: 12/13/04
Re: Inverting elliptic integrals
Posted: Jul 28, 2004 12:41 PM
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I need the inverse of the (incomplete) elliptic integral of the second
kind. It is well defined but I can't track down a solution or code
for it.

Did you get any response to your message?

David

On Wed, 12 Mar 1997 19:24:49 GMT, Gordon Inverarity wrote:
>Is it possible to invert an incomplete elliptic integral of the third

>kind (Legendre's canonical form)? The books I have looked at give
>the elliptic function sn as the inverse of the first kind of integral

>but I have yet to find inverses for the second or third kinds. Is
>this just a problem of only one of the integrals being bijective over

>its domain?
>Thanks in advance,
> Gordon Inverarity

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