There are twelve Jacobi Elliptic functions, of which the three copolar functions sn, cn and dn are the most important as the other nine can be computed from these three ^{[2] [3] [4]}.

These functions each take two arguments: a parameter, and a variable as described below.

Like all elliptic functions these can be parameterised in a number of ways:

In our implementation, these functions all take the elliptic modulus k as the parameter.

In addition the variable u is sometimes expressed as an amplitude φ, in our implementation we always use u.

Finally note that our functions all take the elliptic modulus k as the first argument - this is for alignment with the Elliptic Integrals (but is different from other implementations, for example Mathworks).

A simple example comparing use of Wolfram Alpha with Boost.Math (including much higher precision using Boost.Multiprecision) is jacobi_zeta_example.cpp.

There are twelve functions for computing the twelve individual Jacobi elliptic functions: jacobi_cd, jacobi_cn, jacobi_cs, jacobi_dc, jacobi_dn, jacobi_ds, jacobi_nc, jacobi_nd, jacobi_ns, jacobi_sc, jacobi_sd and jacobi_sn.

They are all called as for example:

jacobi_cs(k, u);

Note however that these individual functions are all really thin wrappers around the function jacobi_elliptic which calculates the three copolar functions sn, cn and dn in a single function call.

	Tip
	If you need more than one of these functions for a given set of arguments, it's most efficient to use jacobi_elliptic.