Average Error: 29.4 → 0.6
Time: 37.9s
Precision: 64
Internal Precision: 1408
\[e^{a \cdot x} - 1\]
\[\begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\sqrt{e^{a \cdot x} - 1} \cdot \sqrt{e^{a \cdot x} - 1} \le 0.0054314674489082245:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\left(a \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot x\right)\right) \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot x\right) \cdot \frac{1}{6} + \frac{1}{2}\right) + a \cdot x\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\log \left(e^{e^{a \cdot x} - 1}\right)\\ \end{array}\]

Error

Bits error versus a

Bits error versus x

Target

Original29.4
Target0.2
Herbie0.6
\[\begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\left|a \cdot x\right| \lt \frac{1}{10}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(a \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(1 + \left(\frac{a \cdot x}{2} + \frac{{\left(a \cdot x\right)}^{2}}{6}\right)\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;e^{a \cdot x} - 1\\ \end{array}\]

Derivation

  1. Split input into 2 regimes
  2. if (* (sqrt (- (exp (* a x)) 1)) (sqrt (- (exp (* a x)) 1))) < 0.0054314674489082245

    1. Initial program 45.0

      \[e^{a \cdot x} - 1\]
    2. Taylor expanded around 0 12.7

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{6} \cdot \left({a}^{3} \cdot {x}^{3}\right) + \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot {x}^{2}\right) + a \cdot x\right)}\]
    3. Applied simplify0.1

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot x\right)\right) \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot x\right) \cdot \frac{1}{6} + \frac{1}{2}\right) + a \cdot x}\]

    if 0.0054314674489082245 < (* (sqrt (- (exp (* a x)) 1)) (sqrt (- (exp (* a x)) 1)))

    1. Initial program 1.3

      \[e^{a \cdot x} - 1\]
    2. Using strategy rm
    3. Applied add-log-exp1.6

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(e^{e^{a \cdot x} - 1}\right)}\]
  3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

Runtime

Time bar (total: 37.9s)Debug logProfile

herbie shell --seed '#(1070833653 108281690 3330367898 3632331308 3494323072 43156186)' 
(FPCore (a x)
  :name "expax (section 3.5)"

  :herbie-target
  (if (< (fabs (* a x)) 1/10) (* (* a x) (+ 1 (+ (/ (* a x) 2) (/ (pow (* a x) 2) 6)))) (- (exp (* a x)) 1))

  (- (exp (* a x)) 1))