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Bernoulli on Arc Length

by Victor Moll (Tulane University) and Judith Nowalsky (University of New Orleans) and Gined Roa (Universidad del Tolima (Colombia)) and Leonardo Solanilla (Universidad del Tolima (Colombia))

This article originally appeared in:
Mathematics Magazine
June, 2002

Subject classification(s): Calculus | Single Variable Calculus | Integration
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This article considers parametric curves whose arc length can be expressed as elementary functions of their endpoints.

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