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<B>ACOSH</B> _ _ _  _ _ _  _ _ _  _ _ _ <B>operator</B><P>
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<em>acosh</em>represents the hyperbolic arccosine of its argument. It takes 
an arbitrary scalar expression as its argument. The derivative of 
<em>acosh</em> is known to the system. Numerical values may also be found by 
turning on the switch 
<A HREF=r37_0330.html>rounded</A>. 
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<em>acosh</em>(&lt;expression&gt;) or <em>acosh</em> &lt;simple\_expression&gt; 

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&lt;expression&gt; may be any scalar REDUCE expression, not an array, matrix or 

vector expression. &lt;simple\_expression&gt; must be a single identifier or 
begin with a prefix operator name. 
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examples: </H3>
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acosh a; 

  ACOSH(A) 


acosh(0); 

  ACOSH(0) 


df(acosh(a**2),a); 

          4
  2*SQRT(A  - 1)*A
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        4
       A  - 1


int(acosh(x),x); 

  INT(ACOSH(X),X)

</TT></PRE><P>You may attach functionality by defining <em>acosh</em> to be the 
inverse of 
<em>cosh</em>. This is done by the commands 
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        put('cosh,'inverse,'acosh);
        put('acosh,'inverse,'cosh);
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You can write a procedure to attach integrals or other 
functions to <em>acosh</em>. You may wish to add a check to see that its 
argument is properly restricted. 
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