Hyperbolic tangent (tanh)

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Hyperbolic tangent

The hyperbolic tangent function maps $tanh: \mathbb{R} \rightarrow (-1,1)$ by

$$tanh(x) = \frac{e^x - e^{-x}}{e^x + e^{-x}}$$

it is the analogous function to tan in hyperbolic space.