ACOSH(3) Library Functions Manual ACOSH(3)

NAME

acosh, acoshfinverse hyperbolic cosine function

LIBRARY

Math Library (libm, -lm)

SYNOPSIS

#include <math.h>

double
acosh(double x);

float
acoshf(float x);

DESCRIPTION

The acosh() and acoshf() functions compute the inverse hyperbolic cosine of the real argument x.

RETURN VALUES

If x is less than one, acosh(x) and acoshf(x) return NaN and set the global variable errno to EDOM.

SEE ALSO

asinh(3), atanh(3), exp(3), math(3)

HISTORY

The acosh() function appeared in 4.3BSD.
May 6, 1991 NetBSD 6.1