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The hyperbolic functions are often treated with the trigonometric functions in mathematical texts and handbooks [AS64, OLBC10, Chapter 4], because there are striking similarities in their series expansions, and the relations between family members, even though their graphs are quite different.
Out, hyperbolical fiend! how vexest thou this man!
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Beebe, N.H.F. (2017). Hyperbolic functions. In: The Mathematical-Function Computation Handbook. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64110-2_12
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