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Name

sinh, sinhf, sinhl - hyperbolic sine function

Library

Math library ( libm ", " -lm )

Synopsis

#include <math.h> 
double sinh(double  x );
float sinhf(float x );
long double sinhl(long double x );

Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

sinhf() sinhl()

    _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L
        || /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE
        || /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE

Description

These functions return the hyperbolic sine of x, which is defined mathematically as:

    sinh(x) = (exp(x) - exp(-x)) / 2

Return Value

On success, these functions return the hyperbolic sine of x.

If x is a NaN, a NaN is returned.

If x is +0 (-0), +0 (-0) is returned.

If x is positive infinity (negative infinity), positive infinity (negative infinity) is returned.

If the result overflows, a range error occurs, and the functions return HUGE_VAL ,HUGE_VALF ,or HUGE_VALL ,respectively, with the same sign as x.

Errors

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.

Attributes

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7). allbox; lbx lb lb T{ sinh()sinhf()sinhl()
InterfaceAttributeValue
T}Thread safetyMT-Safe

Standards

C11, POSIX.1-2008.

History

C99, POSIX.1-2001.

The variant returning double also conforms to SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89.

See Also

  1. acosh(3),
  2. asinh(3),
  3. atanh(3),
  4. cosh(3),
  5. csinh(3),
  6. tanh(3)