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<B>ASINH</B> _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ <B>operator</B><P>
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The <em>asinh</em> operator returns the hyperbolic arcsine of its argument.
The derivative of <em>asinh</em> and some simple transformations are known
to the system.
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<em>asinh</em>(<expression>) or <em>asinh</em> <simple\_expression>
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<expression> may be any scalar REDUCE expression, not an array, matrix or
vector expression. <simple\_expression> must be a single identifier or
begin with a prefix operator name.
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examples: </H3>
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asinh d;
ASINH(D)
asinh(1);
ASINH(1)
df(asinh(2*x),x);
2
2*SQRT(4*X + 1))
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2
4*X + 1
</TT></PRE><P>You may attach further functionality by defining <em>asinh</em> to
be the
inverse of <em>sinh</em>. This is done by the commands
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put('sinh,'inverse,'asinh);
put('asinh,'inverse,'sinh);
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A numeric value is not returned by <em>asinh</em> unless the switch
<em>rounded</em> is on and its argument evaluates to a number.
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