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28.Dd June 9, 2013
29.Dt ACOSH 3
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm acosh ,
33.Nm acoshf ,
34.Nm acoshl
35.Nd inverse hyperbolic cosine functions
36.Sh LIBRARY
37.Lb libm
38.Sh SYNOPSIS
39.In math.h
40.Ft double
41.Fn acosh "double x"
42.Ft float
43.Fn acoshf "float x"
44.Ft long double
45.Fn acoshl "long double x"
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47The
48.Fn acosh ,
49.Fn acoshf ,
50and
51.Fn acoshl
52functions compute the inverse hyperbolic cosine
53of the real
54argument
55.Fa x .
56For a discussion of error due to roundoff, see
57.Xr math 3 .
58.Sh RETURN VALUES
59These functions
60return the inverse hyperbolic cosine of
61.Fa x .
62If the argument is less than 1,
63.Fn acosh
64raises an invalid exception and returns an \*(Na.
65.Sh SEE ALSO
66.Xr asinh 3 ,
67.Xr atanh 3 ,
68.Xr exp 3 ,
69.Xr fenv 3 ,
70.Xr math 3
71.Sh HISTORY
72The
73.Fn acosh ,
74.Fn acoshf ,
75and
76.Fn acoshl
77functions appeared in
78.Bx 4.3 ,
79.Fx 2.0 ,
80and
81.Fx 10.0 ,
82respectively.
83