Average Error: 34.2 → 0.1
Time: 23.4s
Precision: 64
Internal Precision: 1408
\[\left(e^{x} - 2\right) + e^{-x}\]
↓
\[{x}^{2} + \left(\frac{1}{12} \cdot {x}^{4} + \frac{1}{360} \cdot {x}^{6}\right)\]

Error

Bits error versus x

Target

Original34.2
Target9.1
Herbie0.1
\[4 \cdot {\left(\sinh \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)\right)}^{2}\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 34.2

    \[\left(e^{x} - 2\right) + e^{-x}\]

  2. Taylor expanded around 0 0.1

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{x}^{2} + \left(\frac{1}{12} \cdot {x}^{4} + \frac{1}{360} \cdot {x}^{6}\right)}\]
  3. Removed slow pow expressions.

Runtime

Time bar (total: 23.4s)Debug log

herbie shell --seed '#(151349756 408087815 228312487 2538703040 1980610373 1250971417)' 
(FPCore (x)
  :name "exp2 (problem 3.3.7)"

  :herbie-target
  (* 4 (pow (sinh (/ x 2)) 2))

  (+ (- (exp x) 2) (exp (- x))))