'\" 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 2002-07-25 by Walter Harms .\" (walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de) .\" .TH acosh 3 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages 6.9.1" .SH NAME acosh, acoshf, acoshl \- inverse hyperbolic cosine function .SH LIBRARY Math library .RI ( libm ", " \-lm ) .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #include .P .BI "double acosh(double " x ); .BI "float acoshf(float " x ); .BI "long double acoshl(long double " x ); .P .fi .RS -4 Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see .BR feature_test_macros (7)): .RE .P .BR acosh (): .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 .P .BR acoshf (), .BR acoshl (): .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 cosine of .IR x ; that is the value whose hyperbolic cosine is .IR x . .SH RETURN VALUE On success, these functions return the inverse hyperbolic cosine of .IR x . .P If .I x is a NaN, a NaN is returned. .P If .I x is +1, +0 is returned. .P If .I x is positive infinity, positive infinity is returned. .P If .I x is less than 1, a domain error occurs, and the functions return a NaN. .SH ERRORS See .BR math_error (7) for information on how to determine whether an error has occurred when calling these functions. .P The following errors can occur: .TP Domain error: \fIx\fP is less than 1 .I errno is set to .BR EDOM . An invalid floating-point exception .RB ( FE_INVALID ) is raised. .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 acosh (), .BR acoshf (), .BR acoshl () T} Thread safety MT-Safe .TE .SH STANDARDS C11, POSIX.1-2008. .SH HISTORY C99, POSIX.1-2001. .P The variant returning .I double also conforms to SVr4, 4.3BSD. .SH SEE ALSO .BR asinh (3), .BR atanh (3), .BR cacosh (3), .BR cosh (3), .BR sinh (3), .BR tanh (3)