TANH

The TANH function returns the hyperbolic tangent of Expression.

SQL syntax

TANH(Expression)

Parameters

TANH has the parameter:

Parameter Description

Expression

Operand or column can be any numeric data type or any non-numeric data type that can be implicitly converted to a numeric data type.

Description

  • If Expression is of type NUMBER, the data type returned is NUMBER. For all other numeric data types, the data type returned is BINARY_DOUBLE.

  • If the value of Expression is NULL, NULL is returned.

Example

Use the TANH function to return the hyperbolic tangent of .5. 

Command> SELECT TANH(.5) "Hyperbolic tangent of .5" FROM dual;
< .462117157260009758502318483643672548721 >
1 row found.