Elliptic integral and function

Liam Healy Liam.Healy@nrl.navy.mil
Wed Dec 19 13:20:00 GMT 2001


My understanding is that the Jacobi elliptic function is the inverse
of the elliptic function.  That is, 
  sn(K(k),k) = 1
  cn(K(k),k) = 0
  dn(K(k),k) = sqrt(1-k^2)
see http://mathworld.wolfram.com/JacobiEllipticFunctions.html

but when I try this I get e.g.
gsltest 0.5
k=  0.50000000000000 K(k)=  1.68575035481260
sn=  0.99289175131682 cn=  0.11902088122262 dn=  0.71209759519570
all three of these seem wrong.  My driver program is attached.

What is wrong here?  Thank you for any light you can shed on this. 

Liam 

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