.\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk) .\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License .\" References consulted: .\" Linux libc source code .\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991) .\" 386BSD man pages .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 19:51:25 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) .TH COSH 3 "June 13, 1993" "" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME cosh \- hyperbolic cosine function .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #include .sp .BI "double cosh(double " x ); .fi .SH DESCRIPTION The \fBcosh()\fP function returns the hyperbolic cosine of \fIx\fP, which is defined mathematically as exp(x) + exp(-x) / 2. .SH "CONFORMING TO" SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3, ISO 9899 .SH SEE ALSO .BR acosh "(3), " asinh "(3), " atanh "(3), " sinh "(3), " tanh (3)