Problem 47864. Calculate the Surface Area of an Ellipsoid

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Calculate the Surface Area of an Ellipsoid: (x/a)^2+(y/b)^2+(z/c)^2=1. Input will be a matrix [a,b,c]. Round output to four decimal places.

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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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