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Hyperbolic sine function

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Interface
Description
Special Values
See Also
Standards
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Interface

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

Description

The sinh function computes the hyperbolic sine of x, which is defined through:

$\mathrm{sinh}(x) := \frac{e^x - e^{-x}}{2}$

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Example:

Example - Hyperbolic sine function

Workings

#include <math.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
  double val = -1.0;
  do
  {
    printf("Hyperbolic sine of %f is %f.\n", val, sinh(val));
    val += 0.1;
  }
  while(val<=1.0);
 
  return 0;
}

Solution

Output:

Hyperbolic sine of -1.000000 is -1.175201.
Hyperbolic sine of -0.900000 is -1.026517.
Hyperbolic sine of -0.800000 is -0.888106.
Hyperbolic sine of -0.700000 is -0.758584.
Hyperbolic sine of -0.600000 is -0.636654.
Hyperbolic sine of -0.500000 is -0.521095.
Hyperbolic sine of -0.400000 is -0.410752.
Hyperbolic sine of -0.300000 is -0.304520.
Hyperbolic sine of -0.200000 is -0.201336.
Hyperbolic sine of -0.100000 is -0.100167.
Hyperbolic sine of -0.000000 is -0.000000.
Hyperbolic sine of 0.100000 is 0.100167.
Hyperbolic sine of 0.200000 is 0.201336.
Hyperbolic sine of 0.300000 is 0.304520.
Hyperbolic sine of 0.400000 is 0.410752.
Hyperbolic sine of 0.500000 is 0.521095.
Hyperbolic sine of 0.600000 is 0.636654.
Hyperbolic sine of 0.700000 is 0.758584.
Hyperbolic sine of 0.800000 is 0.888106.
Hyperbolic sine of 0.900000 is 1.026517.
Hyperbolic sine of 1.000000 is 1.175201.

Special Values

sinh ( 0 ) returns 0.

sinh ( ∞) returns ∞.

Standards

The sinh function conforms to ISO/IEC 9899:1999(E).

double	`sinh` (double x)
long	`sinhl` (long double x)
float	`sinhf` (float x)