mathfunctions.java

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/*
 *  YALE - Yet Another Learning Environment
 *  Copyright (C) 2002, 2003
 *      Simon Fischer, Ralf Klinkenberg, Ingo Mierswa, 
 *          Katharina Morik, Oliver Ritthoff
 *      Artificial Intelligence Unit
 *      Computer Science Department
 *      University of Dortmund
 *      44221 Dortmund,  Germany
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package edu.udo.cs.yale.tools;

/** This class provides mathematical functions not already provided by <tt>java.lang.Math</tt>:
 *  <ul>
 *    <li><tt>tanh()</tt> : tangens hyperbolicus, <i>y = tanh(x) = (e^x - e^-x) / (e^x + e^-x)</i></li>
 *  </ul>
 *  
 *  @author Ralf Klinkenberg
 *  @version 2002/05/25
 */

public class MathFunctions {
    /** returns tangens hyperbolicus of <tt>x</tt>, i.e. 
     *  <i>y = tanh(x) = (e^x - e^-x) / (e^x + e^-x)</i>.
     */
    public static double  tanh(double x) {
	return ((java.lang.Math.exp(x) - java.lang.Math.exp(-x)) / (java.lang.Math.exp(x) + java.lang.Math.exp(-x)));
    }
}