# How should I write arctanh? [duplicate]

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If I want to use the function sin in LaTeX, I write $\sin x$ or $\sin(x+1)$. If I want to use the function arctanh, I can't use $\arctanh x$:

! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> ...\ (\cos x)' &= -\sin x \\ (\arctanh
x)' &= \frac {1}{\sqrt {1 ...
l.74 \end{align*}

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! Emergency stop.


What should I use instead for arctanh?

I thought of $\text{arctanh} x$, but this doesn't leave a space after arctanh. Additionally, it seems to be semantically incorrect, as arctanh is not "only" text.

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## marked as duplicate by egreg, Torbjørn T., Garbage Collector, Marco Daniel, cgniederSep 16 '12 at 10:17

You could also use \atanh{x} of the physymb package. It gives tanh^-1. –  Harold Cavendish Sep 16 '12 at 9:55
arctanh is semantically wrong. The right word is artanh, where "ar" is the abbreviation for area and not for arc. –  Luigi Sep 16 '12 at 11:25

\text is not well suited for this, use
\usepackage{amsmath}

then \arctanh behaves like \tan and friends