SINH
Supported, behaves as documentedCategory: Math and trigonometry · Last tested 2026-09-01
Real compatibility results for the SINH function: executed in Excel for the web, Google Sheets and LibreOffice Calc, with desktop Excel behavior from Microsoft’s official documentation (we do not run desktop Excel — Excel for the web is a different application and is executed separately). Syntax and links to that documentation are below.
Support matrix
| Engine | Documented | Live-tested | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Excel (desktop) | Yes | No — documented only | n/a |
| Excel for the web | — | Yes (recalc, 2026-09-01) | Supported, behaves as documented |
| Google Sheets | Yes | Yes (Drive import, 2026-08-31) | Supported, behaves as documented |
| LibreOffice Calc | Yes | Yes (25.8.7.3, 2026-08-31) | Supported, behaves as documented |
LibreOffice version history
We executed the same test cases under each LibreOffice release to show exactly when SINH’s support changed — not documentation claims, real results.
| LibreOffice version | Verdict | Tested |
|---|---|---|
| 24.2.0.3 | Supported, behaves as documented | 2026-08-31 |
| 24.8.7.2 | Supported, behaves as documented | 2026-08-31 |
| 25.2.0.3 | Supported, behaves as documented | 2026-08-31 |
| 25.8.7.3 | Supported, behaves as documented | 2026-08-31 |
Executed test cases
Excel for the web (executed 2026-09-01 via OneDrive recalculation)
These values come from Excel for the web, not from desktop Excel. They are two different implementations of the calculation engine, and this run measured only the web one: the corpus was uploaded to OneDrive as .xlsx, recalculated by Excel for the web on open, and downloaded again for readback. Excel for the web is a rolling service with no pinnable version, so the run is identified by its date. Where a value here disagrees with the Expected column — which is Microsoft’s documentation of the desktop product — we cannot tell you whether the web engine diverges from the desktop one or the documentation is wrong about both, because we do not run desktop Excel.
| Formula | Description | Result | Expected | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| =ROUND(2.868*SINH(0.0342*1.03),7) | Microsoft's only documented example, at the seven decimals it publishes | 0.1010491 | 0.1010491ProvenanceMicrosoft publishes =2.868*SINH(0.0342*1.03) = 0.1010491 ("Probability of obtaining a result of less than 1.03 seconds"). DERIVATION: 2.868 * sinh(0.0342 * 1.03) = 2.868 * sinh(0.035226) evaluated at 50 digits (mpmath) is 0.1010490631182873426942, which is 0.1010491 at the published precision. Microsoft's page was read live on 2026-08-31 at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/functions/sinh-function. FETCH NOTE FOR THIS BATCH: batch F recorded every /en-us/office/<name>-function-<guid> URL returning Microsoft's 'Sorry, the page you're looking for can't be found' body; today BOTH paths serve the article again -- the GUID form redirects to /en-us/excel/functions/<slug>-function -- and every page cited in this batch came back complete (217-223 KB) in one or two attempts, with no 87 KB stub responses. Nothing here is sourced from a search snippet or a mirror. |
Matched |
| =ROUND(2.868*SINH(0.0342*1.03),10) | The same example carried to ten decimals | 0.1010490631 | 0.1010490631ProvenanceSeven published decimals cannot separate sinh from its small-argument approximation x + x^3/6, which agrees with sinh to eleven places at this argument. Asserted at ten places from the derivation: 0.1010490631. |
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| =SINH(0) | A structural identity: sinh(0) = 0 exactly | 0 | 0Provenancesinh(0) = (e^0 - e^-0)/2 = 0 exactly. No derived constant. |
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| =ROUND(SINH(2)+SINH(-2),15) | sinh is an odd function, so the two signs must cancel exactly | 0 | 0Provenancesinh is odd, so sinh(2) + sinh(-2) = 0 exactly. A structural assertion with no derived constant. |
Matched |
| =ROUND(SINH(1)-(EXP(1)-EXP(-1))/2,15) | sinh checked against its own defining exponential form, computed by the engine | 0 | 0Provenancesinh(x) = (e^x - e^-x)/2 is the definition the page states (its Remarks bullet is an image of that formula). Asserting the difference is zero makes the engine check its own SINH against its own EXP, which is sharper than any single published digit string: it fails if SINH is implemented from a truncated series or from a different convention, and it needs no constant from us at all. The SINH page publishes no error-condition remarks, so no error case is asserted. |
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Google Sheets (executed 2026-08-31 via Drive import)
Google Sheets is a rolling service with no pinnable version, so this run is identified by its date. The corpus was imported to Drive as .xlsx, recalculated by Sheets, and exported back for readback.
| Formula | Description | Result | Expected | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| =ROUND(2.868*SINH(0.0342*1.03),7) | Microsoft's only documented example, at the seven decimals it publishes | 0.1010491 | 0.1010491ProvenanceMicrosoft publishes =2.868*SINH(0.0342*1.03) = 0.1010491 ("Probability of obtaining a result of less than 1.03 seconds"). DERIVATION: 2.868 * sinh(0.0342 * 1.03) = 2.868 * sinh(0.035226) evaluated at 50 digits (mpmath) is 0.1010490631182873426942, which is 0.1010491 at the published precision. Microsoft's page was read live on 2026-08-31 at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/functions/sinh-function. FETCH NOTE FOR THIS BATCH: batch F recorded every /en-us/office/<name>-function-<guid> URL returning Microsoft's 'Sorry, the page you're looking for can't be found' body; today BOTH paths serve the article again -- the GUID form redirects to /en-us/excel/functions/<slug>-function -- and every page cited in this batch came back complete (217-223 KB) in one or two attempts, with no 87 KB stub responses. Nothing here is sourced from a search snippet or a mirror. |
Matched |
| =ROUND(2.868*SINH(0.0342*1.03),10) | The same example carried to ten decimals | 0.1010490631 | 0.1010490631ProvenanceSeven published decimals cannot separate sinh from its small-argument approximation x + x^3/6, which agrees with sinh to eleven places at this argument. Asserted at ten places from the derivation: 0.1010490631. |
Matched |
| =SINH(0) | A structural identity: sinh(0) = 0 exactly | 0 | 0Provenancesinh(0) = (e^0 - e^-0)/2 = 0 exactly. No derived constant. |
Matched |
| =ROUND(SINH(2)+SINH(-2),15) | sinh is an odd function, so the two signs must cancel exactly | 0 | 0Provenancesinh is odd, so sinh(2) + sinh(-2) = 0 exactly. A structural assertion with no derived constant. |
Matched |
| =ROUND(SINH(1)-(EXP(1)-EXP(-1))/2,15) | sinh checked against its own defining exponential form, computed by the engine | 0 | 0Provenancesinh(x) = (e^x - e^-x)/2 is the definition the page states (its Remarks bullet is an image of that formula). Asserting the difference is zero makes the engine check its own SINH against its own EXP, which is sharper than any single published digit string: it fails if SINH is implemented from a truncated series or from a different convention, and it needs no constant from us at all. The SINH page publishes no error-condition remarks, so no error case is asserted. |
Matched |
LibreOffice Calc 25.8.7.3 (tested 2026-08-31)
| Formula | Description | Result | Expected | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| =ROUND(2.868*SINH(0.0342*1.03),7) | Microsoft's only documented example, at the seven decimals it publishes | 0.1010491 | 0.1010491ProvenanceMicrosoft publishes =2.868*SINH(0.0342*1.03) = 0.1010491 ("Probability of obtaining a result of less than 1.03 seconds"). DERIVATION: 2.868 * sinh(0.0342 * 1.03) = 2.868 * sinh(0.035226) evaluated at 50 digits (mpmath) is 0.1010490631182873426942, which is 0.1010491 at the published precision. Microsoft's page was read live on 2026-08-31 at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/functions/sinh-function. FETCH NOTE FOR THIS BATCH: batch F recorded every /en-us/office/<name>-function-<guid> URL returning Microsoft's 'Sorry, the page you're looking for can't be found' body; today BOTH paths serve the article again -- the GUID form redirects to /en-us/excel/functions/<slug>-function -- and every page cited in this batch came back complete (217-223 KB) in one or two attempts, with no 87 KB stub responses. Nothing here is sourced from a search snippet or a mirror. |
Matched |
| =ROUND(2.868*SINH(0.0342*1.03),10) | The same example carried to ten decimals | 0.1010490631 | 0.1010490631ProvenanceSeven published decimals cannot separate sinh from its small-argument approximation x + x^3/6, which agrees with sinh to eleven places at this argument. Asserted at ten places from the derivation: 0.1010490631. |
Matched |
| =SINH(0) | A structural identity: sinh(0) = 0 exactly | 0 | 0Provenancesinh(0) = (e^0 - e^-0)/2 = 0 exactly. No derived constant. |
Matched |
| =ROUND(SINH(2)+SINH(-2),15) | sinh is an odd function, so the two signs must cancel exactly | 0 | 0Provenancesinh is odd, so sinh(2) + sinh(-2) = 0 exactly. A structural assertion with no derived constant. |
Matched |
| =ROUND(SINH(1)-(EXP(1)-EXP(-1))/2,15) | sinh checked against its own defining exponential form, computed by the engine | 0 | 0Provenancesinh(x) = (e^x - e^-x)/2 is the definition the page states (its Remarks bullet is an image of that formula). Asserting the difference is zero makes the engine check its own SINH against its own EXP, which is sharper than any single published digit string: it fails if SINH is implemented from a truncated series or from a different convention, and it needs no constant from us at all. The SINH page publishes no error-condition remarks, so no error case is asserted. |
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Docs & syntax
- Excel (desktop): official documentation
- Google Sheets: official documentation
- LibreOffice Calc: official documentation