home   contributing   bugs   download   online pages  

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUE | ERRORS | CONFORMING TO | BUGS | SEE ALSO | COLOPHONThe Linux Programming Interface


COSH(3)                       Linux Programmer's Manual                       COSH(3)

NAME         top

       cosh, coshf, coshl - hyperbolic cosine function

SYNOPSIS         top

       #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():
           _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 600 || _ISOC99_SOURCE ||
           _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L;
           or cc -std=c99

DESCRIPTION         top

       The cosh() function returns the hyperbolic cosine of x, which is defined
       mathematically as:

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

RETURN VALUE         top

       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         top

       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.

CONFORMING TO         top

       C99, POSIX.1-2001.  The variant returning double also conforms to SVr4,
       4.3BSD.

BUGS         top

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

SEE ALSO         top

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

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of release 3.32 of the Linux man-pages project.  A
       description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found
       at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

                                      2010-09-20                              COSH(3)

HTML rendering created 2010-12-03 by Michael Kerrisk, author of The Linux Programming Interface

customisable
counter