Find the perimeter of an eClipse

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Matt Parker made a video about why there's no well-defined equation for calculating the perimeter of an ellipse.

I think a /k/ slipped in at 5:00, making him accidentally say eclipse instead of ellipse. Am I right?
 

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Calculus can calculate any otherwise-uncalculatable object, no matter the shape or how non-Euclidian it is. The video is about there not being a neat formula, like the ones we have for many other geometric objects.



"Seducing a woman is like the cotangent function. No matter how close I get, I can never quite touch the pi." - Sir Isaac Newton, inventor of calculus, died a virgin.
 
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