On The Perimeter of an Ellipse

Subject Areas : Applied Mathematics

A. Ansari ¹

1 - Department of Mathematics, Islamic Azad University, Gachsaran-Branch, Gachsaran, Iran.

Received: 2015-09-30 Accepted : 2015-09-30 Published : 2012-12-01

Keywords: Ellipse, Perimeter, Surrounding polygon,

Abstract :

Let E be the ellipse with major and minor radii a and b respectively, and Pbe its perimeter, then P = lim 4 tan(p/n)(a + b + 2)Σa2 cos2 (2k-2)Pi/n+ sin2(2k-2)Pi/n; where n = 2m. So without considering the limit, it gives a reasonable approxi-mation for P, it means that we can choose n large enough such that the amountof error be less than any given small number. On the other hand, the formulasatises both limit status b→a and b→0 which give respectively P = 2a andP = 4a.

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