Average Error: 39.8 → 0.4
Time: 25.6s
Precision: 64
Internal Precision: 1344
\[\frac{e^{x} - 1}{x}\]
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\[\begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;x \le -0.00014941383073943545:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{e^{x} - 1}{x}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{6} \cdot {x}^{2} + \left(1 + \frac{1}{2} \cdot x\right)\\ \end{array}\]

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Target

Original39.8
Target39.0
Herbie0.4
\[\begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;x \lt 1 \land x \gt -1:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{e^{x} - 1}{\log \left(e^{x}\right)}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{e^{x} - 1}{x}\\ \end{array}\]

Derivation

  1. Split input into 2 regimes

  2. if x < -0.00014941383073943545

    1. Initial program 0.0

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

    if -0.00014941383073943545 < x

    1. Initial program 59.8

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

    2. Taylor expanded around 0 0.6

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

Runtime

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herbie shell --seed 2018208 
(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))