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Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 393–401, September, 1988.
The author expresses his thanks to V. I. Arnol'd for his interest in this work and A. G. Khovanskii for helpful discussions and simplifications of the proofs.
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Petrov, G.S. The problem of the number of zeros of an elliptic integral is semialgebraic. Mathematical Notes of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR 44, 699–703 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01159133
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