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