'\" t .\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk) .\" and Copyright 2008, Linux Foundation, written by Michael Kerrisk .\" .\" .\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft .\" .\" References consulted: .\" Linux libc source code .\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991) .\" 386BSD man pages .\" Modified 1993-07-24 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) .\" Modified 2002-07-27 by Walter Harms .\" (walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de) .\" .TH asinh 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" .SH NAME asinh, asinhf, asinhl \- inverse hyperbolic sine function .SH LIBRARY Math library .RI ( libm ", " \-lm ) .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #include .PP .BI "double asinh(double " x ); .BI "float asinhf(float " x ); .BI "long double asinhl(long double " x ); .fi .PP .RS -4 Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see .BR feature_test_macros (7)): .RE .PP .BR asinh (): .nf _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500 .\" || _XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED || /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE || /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE .fi .PP .BR asinhf (), .BR asinhl (): .nf _ISOC99_SOURCE || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L || /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE || /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE .fi .SH DESCRIPTION These functions calculate the inverse hyperbolic sine of .IR x ; that is the value whose hyperbolic sine is .IR x . .SH RETURN VALUE On success, these functions return the inverse hyperbolic sine of .IR x . .PP If .I x is a NaN, a NaN is returned. .PP If .I x is +0 (\-0), +0 (\-0) is returned. .PP If .I x is positive infinity (negative infinity), positive infinity (negative infinity) is returned. .\" .\" POSIX.1-2001 documents an optional range error for subnormal x; .\" glibc 2.8 does not do this. .SH ERRORS No errors occur. .SH ATTRIBUTES For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see .BR attributes (7). .TS allbox; lbx lb lb l l l. Interface Attribute Value T{ .na .nh .BR asinh (), .BR asinhf (), .BR asinhl () T} Thread safety MT-Safe .TE .sp 1 .SH STANDARDS C11, POSIX.1-2008. .SH HISTORY C99, POSIX.1-2001. .PP The variant returning .I double also conforms to SVr4, 4.3BSD. .SH SEE ALSO .BR acosh (3), .BR atanh (3), .BR casinh (3), .BR cosh (3), .BR sinh (3), .BR tanh (3)