The Dürer folium is a special case of the rose curve with . It is therefore also an epitrochoid. It has polar equation
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and can be written as a Cartesian equation as
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or
(3)
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It has arc length
(4)
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where is a complete elliptic integral of the second kind. The area of the outer boundary is given by
(5)
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