cosh()

cosh() — Hyperbolic cosine.

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 hyperbolic cosine of num, defined as (exp($num) + exp(-$num))/2.

Signature

cosh(float $num): float

Parameters

ParameterTypeWhat it takes
$numfloatThe argument to process

Return value

The hyperbolic cosine of num

Example

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

See also

cos(), acosh(), sinh(), tanh()

All PHP 8.5 built-in functions

Reference card built from the PHP manual page cosh() (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.