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29.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991)
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4b8c67d9 35.TH TANH 3 2017-09-15 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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36.SH NAME
37tanh, tanhf, tanhl \- hyperbolic tangent function
38.SH SYNOPSIS
39.nf
40.B #include <math.h>
68e4db0a 41.PP
fea681da 42.BI "double tanh(double " x );
fea681da 43.BI "float tanhf(float " x );
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44.BI "long double tanhl(long double " x );
45.fi
68e4db0a 46.PP
20c58d70 47Link with \fI\-lm\fP.
68e4db0a 48.PP
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49.in -4n
50Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
51.BR feature_test_macros (7)):
52.in
68e4db0a 53.PP
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54.ad l
55.BR tanhf (),
56.BR tanhl ():
b90c43a8 57.RS 4
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58_ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE\ >=\ 200112L
59 || /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE
60 || /* Glibc versions <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE
b90c43a8 61.RE
b90c43a8 62.ad
fea681da 63.SH DESCRIPTION
5600f73a 64These functions return the hyperbolic tangent of
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65.IR x ,
66which
658670de 67is defined mathematically as:
a2b7a144 68.PP
658670de 69.nf
658670de 70 tanh(x) = sinh(x) / cosh(x)
494fc522 71.fi
47297adb 72.SH RETURN VALUE
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73On success, these functions return the hyperbolic tangent of
74.IR x .
847e0d88 75.PP
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76If
77.I x
78is a NaN, a NaN is returned.
847e0d88 79.PP
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80If
81.I x
82is +0 (\-0), +0 (\-0) is returned.
847e0d88 83.PP
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84If
85.I x
86is positive infinity (negative infinity),
87+1 (\-1) is returned.
88.\"
385cf745 89.\" POSIX.1-2001 documents an optional range error (underflow)
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90.\" for subnormal x;
91.\" glibc 2.8 does not do this.
92.SH ERRORS
93No errors occur.
38d62724 94.SH ATTRIBUTES
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95For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
96.BR attributes (7).
97.TS
98allbox;
99lbw24 lb lb
100l l l.
101Interface Attribute Value
102T{
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103.BR tanh (),
104.BR tanhf (),
38d62724 105.BR tanhl ()
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106T} Thread safety MT-Safe
107.TE
47297adb 108.SH CONFORMING TO
9a74e018 109C99, POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.
847e0d88 110.PP
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111The variant returning
112.I double
113also conforms to
68e1685c 114SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89.
47297adb 115.SH SEE ALSO
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116.BR acosh (3),
117.BR asinh (3),
118.BR atanh (3),
119.BR cosh (3),
36268806 120.BR ctanh (3),
fea681da 121.BR sinh (3)