4.3BSD-UWisc/man/cat3/asinh.3m

ASINH(3M)           UNIX Programmer's Manual            ASINH(3M)



NAME
     asinh, acosh, atanh - inverse hyperbolic functions

SYNOPSIS
     #include <math.h>

     double asinh(x)
     double x;

     double acosh(x)
     double x;

     double atanh(x)
     double x;

DESCRIPTION
     These functions compute the designated inverse hyperbolic
     functions for real arguments.

ERROR (due to Roundoff etc.)
     These functions inherit much of their error from log1p
     described in exp(3M).  On a VAX, acosh is accurate to about
     3 _u_l_ps, asinh and atanh to about 2 _u_l_ps.  An _u_l_p is one _Unit
     in the _Last _Place carried.

DIAGNOSTICS
     Acosh returns the reserved operand on a VAX if the argument
     is less than 1.

     Atanh returns the reserved operand on a VAX if the argument
     has absolute value bigger than or equal to 1.

SEE ALSO
     math(3M), exp(3M), infnan(3M)

AUTHOR
     W. Kahan, Kwok-Choi Ng


















Printed 12/27/86          May 12, 1986                          1