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On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 Kbwms AT aol DOT com wrote:

> Here is the name that I pulled from copies from Posix:
>
> NAME
> > cacosh, cacoshf, cacoshl - complex arc hyperbolic cosine functions
>
> at
>
> The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6
> IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition
>
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/toc.htm

Yes, but that is wrong.

> Also, the name "complex arc hyperbolic cosine"
>  is the terminology used on page 174 of ISO/IEC 9899-1999 (E).

That is also wrong.

> I've never heard of "area hyperbolic cosine."

Then you haven't read any mathematical literature about these functions.
See, for example, http://planetmath.org/encyclopedia/AreaFunctions.html
for the explanation about why the inverses of hyperbolic functions are
called area functions.  It's unfortunate that ANSI C99 and related
standards are wrong, but that's no reason to repeat their mistakes.

-- 
Esa Peuha
student of mathematics at the University of Helsinki
http://www.helsinki.fi/~peuha/