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I have problems using the hyperbolic functions sinh and cosh (MetaFun manual page 204) in metapost. A simple call of sinh (with valid parameter) ct:= sinh(3) ; gives ---------------------------------------- This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.10b-2.1 (MiKTeX 2.3) ConTeXt ver: 2003.4.29 fmt: 2003.5.8 int: english mes: english ...
xx-2 ! Unknown relation will be considered false. <to be read again> : **->if(EXPR1)=2: (EXPR0)*(EXPR0)else:takepower(EXPR1)of(EXPR0)fi <to be read again> ) exp->begingroup((mexp256)**(EXPR2)) endgroup <to be read again> ; sinh->begingroup.save.xx;xx=exp.xx; (xx-1/xx)/2endgroup <to be read again> ; l.152 ct:= sinh(3) ;
? ---------------------------------------- Same error for cosh. The functions sin, cos and asinh, acosh work. Please, could somebody test, if this is a general problem... Greetings, Peter