function Y = atanh(X) % ATANH Inverse hyperbolic tangent. % (Quaternion overloading of standard Matlab function.) % Copyright © 2006 Stephen J. Sangwine and Nicolas Le Bihan. % See the file : Copyright.m for further details. error(nargchk(1, 1, nargin)), error(nargoutchk(0, 1, nargout)) if isreal(X) % X is a real quaternion, and we compute the inverse hyperbolic tangent % of an isomorphic complex number using the standard Matlab atanh function, % then construct a quaternion with the same axis as the original % quaternion. Y = isoquaternion(atanh(isocomplex(X)), X); else % X is a complex quaternion, and therefore we cannot use the method % above for real quaternions, because it is not possible to construct % an isomorphic complex number. error('quaternion/atanh is not yet implemented for complex quaternions'); end;