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cosh(z)


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Hyperbolic functions:

The hyperbolic cosine is just given by cosh(z) = cos(iz). The "i" in the argument of cos causes a rotation of the image by 90 degrees. The definition in terms of the exponential function reads

cosh(z) = ( ez + e-z )/2 .