How to get (Taylor) series formula for arcosh?

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The discussion focuses on deriving the Taylor series formula for the inverse hyperbolic cosine function, arcosh. The user successfully derived the series for arsinh using its derivative and the general binomial expansion, but struggles to find a similar series for arcosh as presented on Wikipedia. They suggest a potential relationship between arsinh and arcosh, particularly through the transformation involving (1/x) and a logarithmic term ln(2x). The identities linking arsinh and arcosh are also highlighted, specifically for x ≥ 1.

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I'm looking at the series published @ Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_hyperbolic_function

There is a series for arsinh, which I was able to derive with no problem - basically take the derivative of arsinh, which is a radical, then apply the general binomial expansion, which gives a series, from which successive derivatives can be determined, then do a Taylor series @ 0, which for every [ ( f(n) / n! ) xn ] term cancels out every term except the one that has the x power as 0, leaving only one term for each Taylor series term, resulting in the nice ordered series for arsinh. However, I can't seem to get something that appears to go in the direction of the series as presented @ Wikipedia.

It appears that somehow if ( 1 / x ) is used instead of ( x ), then there is some type of series that is similar to that of arsinh (i.e., in the way that the series for cos & sin are related) with a strange ln ( 2 x ) term as well. I figure that there must be some underlying identity between arsinh & arcosh, that somehow related arsinh( x ) with arcosh( 1 / x ) and ln ( 2 x ) but I can't find it anywhere.
 
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You can use ##{\displaystyle \operatorname {arsinh} (x)=\operatorname {sgn} (x)\cdot \operatorname {arcosh} \left({\sqrt{x^{2}+1}}\right)}## and for ##{\displaystyle x\geq 1}## we have ##{\displaystyle \operatorname {arcosh} (x)=\operatorname {arsinh} \left({\sqrt {x^{2}-1}}\right)}##.
 

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