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ACOSH

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
ERRORS
CONFORMING TO
SEE ALSO

NAME

acosh ? inverse hyperbolic cosine function

SYNOPSIS

#include <math.h>

double acosh(double x);

DESCRIPTION

The acosh() function calculates the inverse hyperbolic cosine of x; that is the value whose hyperbolic cosine is x. If x is less than 1.0, acosh() returns not-a-number (NaN) and errno is set.

ERRORS

EDOM

x is out of range.

CONFORMING TO

SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3, ISO 9899

SEE ALSO

asinh(3), atanh(3), cosh(3), sinh(3), tanh(3)


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