Average Error: 39.7 → 0.2
Time: 24.7s
Precision: 64
Internal Precision: 1344
\[\frac{e^{x} - 1}{x}\]
↓
\[\begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\frac{1}{6} \cdot {x}^{2} + \left(1 + \frac{1}{2} \cdot x\right) \le 1.0006391130563101:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2} + \left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot {x}^{3} + x\right)}{x}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{e^{x}}{x} - \frac{1}{x}\\ \end{array}\]

Error

Bits error versus x

Target

Original39.7
Target39.0
Herbie0.2
\[\begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;x \lt 1 \land x \gt -1:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{e^{x} - 1}{\log \left(e^{x}\right)}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{e^{x} - 1}{x}\\ \end{array}\]

Derivation

  1. Split input into 2 regimes

  2. if (+ (* 1/6 (pow x 2)) (+ 1 (* 1/2 x))) < 1.0006391130563101

    1. Initial program 60.4

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

    2. Taylor expanded around 0 0.2

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

    if 1.0006391130563101 < (+ (* 1/6 (pow x 2)) (+ 1 (* 1/2 x)))

    1. Initial program 0.0

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

    3. Applied div-sub0.0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{e^{x}}{x} - \frac{1}{x}}\]
  3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

Runtime

Time bar (total: 24.7s)Debug logProfile

herbie shell --seed '#(1072840222 1305617769 1692503039 1353360431 4178980589 1488672652)' 
(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))