The cornoid is the curve illustrated above given by the parametric equations
(1)
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(2)
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where .
It is a sextic algebraic curve with equation
(3)
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The arc length of the curve is given by
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(OEIS A141108), where is a complete elliptic integral of the first kind, is a complete elliptic integral of the second kind, is a complete elliptic integral of the third kind, and .
The area of a single of the loops is
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the area of the outer envelope is
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and the area of the region enclosed is
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