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The positive part of Viviani's curve is the intersection of the hemisphere

, and the cylinder

. Using a partition of the circumference

we construct a polygon that approximates the length of the curve. The exact value is

, where

is the complete elliptic integral function.

Contributed by: Pablo Alberca Bjerregaard (University of Malaga, Spain)

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Approximating the Length of Viviani's Curve