4 Elementary Functions Hyperbolic Functions 4.31 Special Values and Limits 4.33 Maclaurin Series and Laurent Series

§4.32 Inequalities

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Keywords:: hyperbolic functions, inequalities
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For $x$ real,

4.32.1		$\cosh x\leq\left(\frac{\sinh x}{x}\right)^{3},$
ⓘ Symbols: $\cosh\NVar{z}$ : hyperbolic cosine function, $\sinh\NVar{z}$ : hyperbolic sine function and $x$ : real variable Permalink: http://dlmf.nist.gov/4.32.E1 Encodings: TeX, pMML, png See also: Annotations for §4.32 and Ch.4

4.32.2		$\sin x\cos x<\tanh x<x,$
$x>0$ ,
ⓘ Symbols: $\cos\NVar{z}$ : cosine function, $\tanh\NVar{z}$ : hyperbolic tangent function, $\sin\NVar{z}$ : sine function and $x$ : real variable Permalink: http://dlmf.nist.gov/4.32.E2 Encodings: TeX, pMML, png See also: Annotations for §4.32 and Ch.4

4.32.3		$\|\cosh x-\cosh y\|\geq\|x-y\|\sqrt{\sinh x\sinh y},$
$x>0$ , $y>0$ ,
ⓘ Symbols: $\cosh\NVar{z}$ : hyperbolic cosine function, $\sinh\NVar{z}$ : hyperbolic sine function, $x$ : real variable and $y$ : real variable Permalink: http://dlmf.nist.gov/4.32.E3 Encodings: TeX, pMML, png See also: Annotations for §4.32 and Ch.4

4.32.4		$\operatorname{arctan}x\leq\tfrac{1}{2}\pi\tanh x,$
$x\geq 0$ .
ⓘ Symbols: $\pi$ : the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, $\tanh\NVar{z}$ : hyperbolic tangent function, $\operatorname{arctan}\NVar{z}$ : arctangent function and $x$ : real variable Permalink: http://dlmf.nist.gov/4.32.E4 Encodings: TeX, pMML, png See also: Annotations for §4.32 and Ch.4

For these and other inequalities involving hyperbolic functions see Mitrinović (1964, pp. 61, 76, 159) and Mitrinović (1970, p. 270).

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