Ramanujan's inverse elliptic arc approximation

DOI10.1007/S11139-013-9498-7zbMATH Open1298.33030arXivmath/0506385OpenAlexW2080339528MaRDI QIDQ457002FDOQ457002

Authors: Mark B. Villarino 

Publication date: 26 September 2014

Published in: The Ramanujan Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We suggest a continued fraction origin to Ramanujan's approximation to {(a-b)/(a+b)}^2 in terms of the arc length of an ellipse with semiaxes a and b. Moreover, we discuss the asymptotic accuracy of the approximation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0506385

zbMATH Keywords

approximationRamanujanarc length of an ellipse

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elliptic functions and integrals (33E05) Rate of convergence, degree of approximation (41A25)

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