Is there really no way of doing this?

On Feb 8, 10:38 pm, ObsessiveMathsFreak
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a certain integration result which Sage is currently unaware of. I
> need a way to make sage aware of it in some fashion, via substitution or
> anything else.
>
> For example, sage currently cannot perform the following integral
>
> sage: var(' k t')
> sage: integrate(sqrt(1-k^2*sin(t)^2),t,0,pi/2)
> integrate(sqrt(-k^2*sin(t)^2+1),t,0,pi/2)
>
> In fact, the integral defines the elliptice function E(k).
>
> Is there any way of substituting the unknown integral above for a function
> like E(k) in sage? Can sage be programmed to recognise such substitutions
> automatically?

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