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\name{Hyperbolic}
\title{Hyperbolic Functions}
\usage{
cosh(x)
sinh(x)
tanh(x)
acosh(x)
asinh(x)
atanh(x)
}
\alias{cosh}
\alias{sinh}
\alias{tanh}
\alias{acosh}
\alias{asinh}
\alias{atanh}
\description{
  These functions give the obvious hyperbolic functions.  They
  respectively compute the hyperbolic cosine, sine, tangent, and their
  inverses, arc-cosine, arc-sine, arc-tangent (or \sQuote{\emph{area cosine}},
  etc).
}
\arguments{
   \item{x}{a numeric or complex vector}
}
\details{
   These are generic functions: methods can be defined for them
   individually or via the \code{\link[base:groupGeneric]{Math}} group generic.

   Branch cuts are consistent with the inverse trigonometric functions
   \code{asin()} et seq, and agree with those defined in Abramowitz and
   Stegun, figure 4.7, page 86.

}
\section{S4 methods}{
  All are S4 generic functions: methods can be defined
  for them individually or via the
  \code{\link[methods:S4groupGeneric]{Math}} group generic.
}
\seealso{
  The trigonometric functions, \code{\link{cos}}, \code{\link{sin}},
  \code{\link{tan}}, and their inverses
  \code{\link{acos}}, \code{\link{asin}}, \code{\link{atan}}.

  The logistic distribution function \code{\link{plogis}} is a shifted
  version of \code{tanh()} for numeric \code{x}.
}
\references{
  Abramowitz, M. and Stegun, I. A. (1972)
  \emph{Handbook of Mathematical Functions.} New York: Dover.\cr
  Chapter 4. Elementary Transcendental Functions: Logarithmic,
  Exponential, Circular and Hyperbolic Functions
}
\keyword{math}