I think the question is interesting. I had the same idea -- compute some sample areas and use RIES -- but nothing turned up. Charles Greathouse Analyst/Programmer Case Western Reserve University On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Warren D Smith <warren.wds@gmail.com> wrote:
For an explicit impossibility conjecture, consider the finite-area loop containing (-2,1) bounded by the fairly-generic-looking cubic curve
3x^3 + 4x^2y + 7y^2x - 10y^3 - 36x + 37y = 41.
I doubt this area, which is approximately 4.68450311946587, can be expressed in closed form. [Number found using polar coordinates centered at (-2.2, 1.1); integrate (r^2/2) dtheta using trapezoidal rule. All digits probably correct.]
If anybody recomputed this to, say, 50 decimals, then huge runs of number-guesser tools could partially confirm the conjecture, I guess. Ries -l6 realizes it has nothing & gives up in disgust.
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