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NAME

cosh, coshf, coshl - hyperbolic cosine function

SYNOPSIS

  #include <math.h>

  double cosh(double x);
  float coshf(float x);
  long double coshl(long double x);

Link with -lm.

Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see *feature_test_macros*(7)):

*coshf*(), *coshl*():

      _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L
          || /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE
          || /* Glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE

DESCRIPTION

These functions return the hyperbolic cosine of x, which is defined mathematically as:

      cosh(x) = (exp(x) + exp(-x)) / 2

RETURN VALUE

On success, these functions return the hyperbolic cosine of x.

If x is a NaN, a NaN is returned.

If x is +0 or -0, 1 is returned.

If x is positive infinity or negative infinity, positive infinity is returned.

If the result overflows, a range error occurs, and the functions return +*HUGE_VAL*, +*HUGE_VALF*, or +*HUGE_VALL*, respectively.

ERRORS

See *math_error*(7) for information on how to determine whether an error has occurred when calling these functions.

The following errors can occur:

Range error: result overflow
errno is set to ERANGE. An overflow floating-point exception (FE_OVERFLOW) is raised.

ATTRIBUTES

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see *attributes*(7).

Interface Attribute Value
*cosh*(), *coshf*(), *coshl*() Thread safety MT-Safe

CONFORMING TO

C99, POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.

The variant returning double also conforms to SVr4, 4.3BSD.

BUGS

In glibc version 2.3.4 and earlier, an overflow floating-point (FE_OVERFLOW) exception is not raised when an overflow occurs.

SEE ALSO

*acosh*(3), *asinh*(3), *atanh*(3), *ccos*(3), *sinh*(3), *tanh*(3)

COLOPHON

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Author: dt

Created: 2022-02-20 Sun 14:34