Average Error: 43.2 → 0.1
Time: 1.1m
Precision: 64
Internal Precision: 1408
\[\frac{e^{x} - 1}{x}\]
↓
\[\begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;x \le -0.00014973358176513608:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\log \left(e^{e^{x} - 1}\right)}{x}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{6} \cdot {x}^{2} + \left(1 + \frac{1}{2} \cdot x\right)\\ \end{array}\]

Error

Bits error versus x

Target

Original43.2
Target42.5
Herbie0.1
\[\begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;x \lt 1 \land x \gt -1:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{e^{x} - 1}{\log \left(e^{x}\right)}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{e^{x} - 1}{x}\\ \end{array}\]

Derivation

  1. Split input into 2 regimes

  2. if x < -0.00014973358176513608

    1. Initial program 0.1

      \[\frac{e^{x} - 1}{x}\]
    2. Using strategy rm

    3. Applied add-log-exp0.1

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\log \left(e^{e^{x} - 1}\right)}}{x}\]

    if -0.00014973358176513608 < x

    1. Initial program 60.4

      \[\frac{e^{x} - 1}{x}\]

    2. Taylor expanded around 0 0.1

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{6} \cdot {x}^{2} + \left(1 + \frac{1}{2} \cdot x\right)}\]
  3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
  4. Removed slow pow expressions.

Runtime

Time bar (total: 1.1m)Debug log

herbie shell --seed '#(1567391828 2030694642 2833800258 828025724 3004380912 3532991858)' +o setup:early-exit +o reduce:binary-search
(FPCore (x)
  :name "Kahan's exp quotient"

  :herbie-target
  (if (and (< x 1) (> x -1)) (/ (- (exp x) 1) (log (exp x))) (/ (- (exp x) 1) x))

  (/ (- (exp x) 1) x))