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On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 7:48 AM, Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> But since that is not on the table, the main argument in favour of
> precisely sinh, cosh, tanh is that they belong to a class of functions
> called "elementary" by mathematicians, which are commonly taught
> even to engineering students in English-speaking countries, and
> that their implementation involves subtle points.

That is a good argument. Do you have any reference about that (e.g., a
list of those "elementary" functions)?

-- Roberto


I think this:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_functions#Elementary_transcendental_functions