[squeak-dev] Re: inverse hyperbolic function

Nicolas Cellier nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com
Thu Apr 21 19:33:17 UTC 2011


Oops, area hyperbolic function, case of blindness !

So what is a good name for these function ?

2011/4/21 Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com>:
> Just a question of language: how to name them in English ?
> Using asinh acosh atanh like any other programming language do would
> be that simple...
> But Smalltalk did not follow that path and didn't implement asin acos atan...
>
> In French, inverse hyperbolic functions are named like this
> argument sinus hyperbolique (argsh ou argsinh)
> http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonction_hyperbolique#Argument_tangente_hyperbolique
>
> So I decided to use argSinh argCosh argTanh quite naturally (like we
> have arcSin arcCos arcTan).
>
> However I'm not sure English has same conventions. Can someone enlighten me?
>
> Nicolas
>



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