According to Table 7.2.1, the arc length is obtained by evaluating the integral for . The radical in the integrand is easily seen to be
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so the complete integration reduces to
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The antiderivative of is not an elementary function; it is a member of the family of elliptic functions that Maple knows. Without Maple, this integral could only be evaluated numerically, or with a table of integrals.