Problem 47864. Calculate the Surface Area of an Ellipsoid

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Rafael S.T. Vieira on 7 Nov 2022

Please, don't use the function isequal with floats. Apply a tolerance to the test suite: abs(a-b)<1e-4. My code computes the exact value for the area (using incomplete elliptic integrals of the first and second kind), and has trouble with rounding issues.

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