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Hyperbolic Secant Calculator

- By Dr. Minas E. Lemonis, PhD - Updated: June 4, 2020

This tool evaluates the hyperbolic secant of a number: sech(x). Enter the argument x below.

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Definitions

General

The hyperbolic secant function is defined as:

\mathrm{sech}\,{x} = \frac{1}{\cosh{x}} = \frac{2}{\mathrm{e}^x+\mathrm{e}^{-x}}

The graph of the hyperbolic secant function is shown in the figure below.

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Series

All hyperbolic functions can be defined in an infinite series form. Hyperbolic secant function can be written as:

\begin{split} \mathrm{sech}\, x & = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac{ E_{2n} x^{2n}}{(2n)!} = \\ & = 1 - \frac{x^2}{2} + \frac{5x^4}{24} - \frac{61 x^6}{720} \cdots \end{split}

The above series converges for |x| < \frac{\pi}{2} . En denotes the n-th Euler number .

Properties

The derivative of the hyperbolic secant function is:

\left(\mathrm{sech}\,{x}\right)' = -\mathrm{sech}\,{x}\tanh{x}

The integral of the hyperbolic secant is given by:

\int \mathrm{sech}\,{x} \, \mathrm{d}x =\arctan{\left( \sinh{x} \right)} +C

Identities

\begin{split} & \mathrm{sech}\,{\left(-x\right)} & = \mathrm{sech}\,{x} \\ \\ & \mathrm{sech}\,{\left(2 x\right)} & = \frac{\mathrm{sech}\,^{2}{x}}{2-\mathrm{sech}\,^{2}{x}} \\ \\ & \mathrm{sech}\,{\left(x + y\right)} & = \frac{1}{\cosh{x}\cosh{y} + \sinh{x}\sinh{y}} \\ \\ & \mathrm{sech}\,{\left(\frac{x}{2}\right)} & = \sqrt{\frac{2}{\cosh{x}+1}} \\ \\ & \mathrm{sech}^2\, {x} & = 1-\tanh^2{x}\\ \\ \end{split}

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Evaluate csch(x)
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