COSH(3)

NAME
cosh, coshf, coshl - hyperbolic cosine function

SYNOPSIS
#include <math.h>

double cosh(double x);
float coshf(float x);
long double coshl(long double x);

Link with -lm.

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

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

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

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

COLOPHON
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