TANH(3)

NAME
tanh, tanhf, tanhl - hyperbolic tangent function

SYNOPSIS
#include <math.h>

double tanh(double x);
float tanhf(float x);
long double tanhl(long double x);

Link with -lm.

DESCRIPTION
The tanh() function returns the hyperbolic tangent of x, which is defined mathematically as:

    tanh(x) = sinh(x) / cosh(x)

CONFORMING TO
SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89. The float and long double variants are C99 requirements.

SEE ALSO
acosh(3), asinh(3), atanh(3), cosh(3), ctanh(3), sinh(3)

COLOPHON
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