.\" Copyright (c) 1985 Regents of the University of California. .\" All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution. .\" .\" @(#)asinh.3 6.2 (Berkeley) 05/12/86 .\" .TH ASINH 3M "" .UC 6 .ds up \fIulp\fR .SH NAME asinh, acosh, atanh \- inverse hyperbolic functions .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #include .PP .B double asinh(x) .B double x; .PP .B double acosh(x) .B double x; .PP .B double atanh(x) .B double x; .fi .SH DESCRIPTION These functions compute the designated inverse hyperbolic functions for real arguments. .SH 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 \*(ups, asinh and atanh to about 2 \*(ups. An \*(up is one \fIU\fRnit in the \fIL\fRast \fIP\fRlace carried. .SH DIAGNOSTICS Acosh returns the reserved operand on a VAX if the argument is less than 1. .PP Atanh returns the reserved operand on a VAX if the argument has absolute value bigger than or equal to 1. .SH SEE ALSO math(3M), exp(3M), infnan(3M) .SH AUTHOR W. Kahan, Kwok\-Choi Ng