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Computing arc lengths on elliptic curves is in general very difficult and involves transcendental elliptic functions. If y=f(x), then the arc length s of the function plot may be computed numerically as
and the curvature as
where the radius of the osculating circle is r=1/κ when f’’(x)≠0.
