atanh()

atanh() — Inverse hyperbolic tangent.

Built-in function of PHP 8.5. The manual lists it as available in PHP 4 >= 4.1.0, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8. This page is the reference card: signature, parameters and return value, plus the changelog and the example the manual provides.

What it does

Returns the inverse hyperbolic tangent of num, i.e. the value whose hyperbolic tangent is num.

Signature

atanh(float $num): float

Parameters

ParameterTypeWhat it takes
$numfloatThe argument to process

Return value

Inverse hyperbolic tangent of num

Example

The PHP manual ships no example for atanh(); the signature and the parameter table above are the contract.

See also

tanh(), atan(), asinh(), acosh()

All PHP 8.5 built-in functions

Reference card built from the PHP manual page atanh() (PHP documentation, CC BY 3.0). The page is generated from the manual, so the wording of the parameter and return value text follows php.net.