Consider the following integral, $$ {1 \over 4\pi^{2}}\int_{0}^{2\pi}\int_{0}^{2\pi} \sqrt{\, 9 -\sin^{2}\left(\theta_{1} \over 2\right) \sin^{2}\left(\theta_{2} \over 2\right)\,} \,{\rm d}\theta_{1}\,d\theta_{2} $$ This integral comes up in computing the volume of $3$-dimensional special orthogonal matrices of Hessenberg form, i.e., the bottom left entry is $0$. Mathematica isn't able to produce close form solution. Numerically it's about $2.95$.
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evaluating an integral related to the volume of Hessenberg orthogonal matrices
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