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This definition of arc length does not require that... approximating the arc length with many small lines... then the arc length is given by... In order to approximate the arc length of the curve... the arc length integral for values of... the basis for the modern integral form for arc length was independently discovered by... 1659 van Heuraet published a construction showing that arc length could be interpreted as the area under a curve...

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