Average Error: 30.0 → 0.5
Time: 2.6m
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

Original30.0
Target0.0
Herbie0.5
\[4 \cdot {\left(\sinh \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)\right)}^{2}\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 30.0

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

  2. Taylor expanded around 0 0.5

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

Runtime

Time bar (total: 2.6m)Debug log

herbie shell --seed '#(2094665535 3654809497 1731717781 3082199462 566033875 575777438)' 
(FPCore (x)
  :name "exp2 (problem 3.3.7)"

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

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