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Etymology

From a mathematically improper analogy with arc cotangent. Misnomer and corruption of area hyperbolic cotangent, from the Latin area cotangens hyperbolicus.

Abbreviation
arccoth

1. math The area hyberbolic cotangent function, i.e., the inverse hyperbolic cotangent function.

See also
arcsech
arcsch
coth

• 2006-12-09 11:31 - 209.208.77.68 - Added more detail about arccoth, i.e., that it is a misnomer for area hyperbolic cotangent. See my comment in the Talk page for more on that.

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