Hello Anselmo, The formula for the perimeter of a circle is easy to write down, assuming you now the value of pi. There is no such simple formula for the perimeter of ellipses. Some good places on the web to start reading about this are
http://home.att.net/~numericana/answer/ellipse.htm
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/EllipticIntegral.html
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