Which method does the mfun-function ellipticK use?

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I'm wondering which method the ellipticK-function for the calculation of a complete elliptic integral of the first kind.
Thank's a lot for your help!

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the cyclist
the cyclist on 8 May 2013
Very often the documentation for the function will mention the algorithm, but in this case it doesn't seem to. You could try
>> edit ellipticK
and see if there are references in the header of the function. (I don't have that Toolbox, so I can't check.)
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Sarah
Sarah on 8 May 2013
thanks a lot for the fast answer :)
somehow I can't access the function directly, as it is part of the mfun list. But I've just read in the help-tool, that ellipticK uses ellipke, which itseld uses the Arithmetic–geometric mean-method.... So, I think, that's the answer...

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