Average Error: 34.3 → 0.1
Time: 1.4m
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

Original34.3
Target8.9
Herbie0.1
\[4 \cdot {\left(\sinh \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)\right)}^{2}\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 34.3

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

  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: 1.4m)Debug logProfile

herbie shell --seed '#(1062930989 876886121 3990119081 3032829768 3060892583 1929069376)' 
(FPCore (x)
  :name "exp2 (problem 3.3.7)"

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

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