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28.Dd June 9, 2013
29.Dt ASINH 3
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm asinh ,
33.Nm asinhf ,
34.Nm asinhl
35.Nd inverse hyperbolic sine functions
36.Sh LIBRARY
37.Lb libm
38.Sh SYNOPSIS
39.In math.h
40.Ft double
41.Fn asinh "double x"
42.Ft float
43.Fn asinhf "float x"
44.Ft long double
45.Fn asinhl "long double x"
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47The
48.Fn asinh ,
49.Fn asinhf ,
50and
51.Fn asinhl
52functions compute the inverse hyperbolic sine
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 sine of
61.Fa x .
62.Sh SEE ALSO
63.Xr acosh 3 ,
64.Xr atanh 3 ,
65.Xr exp 3 ,
66.Xr math 3
67.Sh HISTORY
68The
69.Fn asinh ,
70.Fn asinhf ,
71and
72.Fn asinhl
73functions appeared in
74.Bx 4.3 ,
75.Fx 2.0 ,
76and
77.Fx 10.0 ,
78respectively.
79