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I covered hyperbolic trigonometric functions in a recent maths course. However I was never presented with any reasons as to why (or even if) they are useful.

Is there any good examples of their uses outside academia?

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    Lorentz transforms can be understood as hyperbolic rotations. The caternary curve (a dangling string/chain) is really just cosh2010-10-30

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