std::comp_ellint_2, std::comp_ellint_2f, std::comp_ellint_2l

Header: <cmath>

1-3) Computes the complete elliptic integral of the second kind of k.The library provides overloads of std::comp_ellint_2 for all cv-unqualified floating-point types as the type of the parameter k.(since C++23)

# Declarations

float comp_ellint_2 ( float k );
double comp_ellint_2 ( double k );
long double comp_ellint_2 ( long double k );

(since C++17) (until C++23)

/* floating-point-type */ comp_ellint_2( /* floating-point-type */ k );

(since C++23)

float comp_ellint_2f( float k );

(since C++17)

long double comp_ellint_2l( long double k );

(since C++17)

Additional overloads
template< class Integer >
double comp_ellint_2 ( Integer k );

(since C++17)

# Parameters

# Return value

If no errors occur, value of the complete elliptic integral of the second kind of k, that is std::ellint_2(k, π/2), is returned.

# Notes

Implementations that do not support C++17, but support ISO 29124:2010, provide this function if STDCPP_MATH_SPEC_FUNCS is defined by the implementation to a value at least 201003L and if the user defines STDCPP_WANT_MATH_SPEC_FUNCS before including any standard library headers.

Implementations that do not support ISO 29124:2010 but support TR 19768:2007 (TR1), provide this function in the header tr1/cmath and namespace std::tr1.

An implementation of this function is also available in boost.math.

The perimeter of an ellipse with eccentricity k and semimajor axis a equals 4aE(k), where E is std::comp_ellint_2. When eccentricity equals 0, the ellipse degenerates to a circle with radius a and the perimeter equals 2πa, so E(0) = π/2. When eccentricity equals 1, the ellipse degenerates to a line of length 2a, whose perimeter is 4a, so E(1) = 1.

The additional overloads are not required to be provided exactly as (A). They only need to be sufficient to ensure that for their argument num of integer type, std::comp_ellint_2(num) has the same effect as std::comp_ellint_2(static_cast(num)).

# Example

#include <cmath>
#include <iostream>
#include <numbers>
 
int main()
{
    constexpr double hpi = std::numbers::pi / 2.0;
 
    std::cout << "E(0) = " << std::comp_ellint_2(0) << '\n'
              << "π/2 = " << hpi << '\n'
              << "E(1) = " << std::comp_ellint_2(1) << '\n'
              << "E(1, π/2) = " << std::ellint_2(1, hpi) << '\n';
}

# See also