hyperbolic tangent function

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NAME

tanh

INTERFACE

#include <math.h>

double tanh ( double x ) long tanhl ( long double x ) float tanhf ( float x )

DESCRIPTION

The tanh function computes the hyperbolic tangent of x.

Example 1

#include <math.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
  double val = -1.0;

  do {
    printf("Hyperbolic tangent of %f is %f.\n", val, tanh(val));
    val += 0.1;
  } while(val<=1.0);

  return 0;
}

output

Hyperbolic tangent of -1.000000 is -0.761594.
Hyperbolic tangent of -0.900000 is -0.716298.
Hyperbolic tangent of -0.800000 is -0.664037.
Hyperbolic tangent of -0.700000 is -0.604368.
Hyperbolic tangent of -0.600000 is -0.537050.
Hyperbolic tangent of -0.500000 is -0.462117.
Hyperbolic tangent of -0.400000 is -0.379949.
Hyperbolic tangent of -0.300000 is -0.291313.
Hyperbolic tangent of -0.200000 is -0.197375.
Hyperbolic tangent of -0.100000 is -0.099668.
Hyperbolic tangent of 0.000000 is 0.000000.
Hyperbolic tangent of 0.100000 is 0.099668.
Hyperbolic tangent of 0.200000 is 0.197375.
Hyperbolic tangent of 0.300000 is 0.291313.
Hyperbolic tangent of 0.400000 is 0.379949.
Hyperbolic tangent of 0.500000 is 0.462117.
Hyperbolic tangent of 0.600000 is 0.537050.
Hyperbolic tangent of 0.700000 is 0.604368.
Hyperbolic tangent of 0.800000 is 0.664037.
Hyperbolic tangent of 0.900000 is 0.716298.
Hyperbolic tangent of 1.000000 is 0.761594.

SPECIAL VALUES

tanh ( 0 ) returns 0.
tanh ( &infin; ) returns 1.

SEE ALSO

acos (3) , asin (3) , atan (3) , atan2 (3) , cos (3) , cosh (3) , sin (3) , sinh (3) , tan (3)

STANDARDS

The tanh function conforms to ISO/IEC 9899:1999(E).