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30.Dd June 9, 2013
31.Dt ACOSH 3
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm acosh ,
35.Nm acoshf ,
36.Nm acoshl
37.Nd inverse hyperbolic cosine functions
38.Sh LIBRARY
39.Lb libm
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41.In math.h
42.Ft double
43.Fn acosh "double x"
44.Ft float
45.Fn acoshf "float x"
46.Ft long double
47.Fn acoshl "long double x"
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49The
50.Fn acosh ,
51.Fn acoshf ,
52and
53.Fn acoshl
54functions compute the inverse hyperbolic cosine
55of the real
56argument
57.Fa x .
58For a discussion of error due to roundoff, see
59.Xr math 3 .
60.Sh RETURN VALUES
61These functions
62return the inverse hyperbolic cosine of
63.Fa x .
64If the argument is less than 1,
65.Fn acosh
66raises an invalid exception and returns an \*(Na.
67.Sh SEE ALSO
68.Xr asinh 3 ,
69.Xr atanh 3 ,
70.Xr exp 3 ,
71.Xr fenv 3 ,
72.Xr math 3
73.Sh HISTORY
74The
75.Fn acosh ,
76.Fn acoshf ,
77and
78.Fn acoshl
79functions appeared in
80.Bx 4.3 ,
81.Fx 2.0 ,
82and
83.Fx 10.0 ,
84respectively.
85