Average Error: 0.6 → 0.6
Time: 5.1s
Precision: 64
Internal Precision: 320
\[\frac{e^{a}}{e^{a} + e^{b}}\]
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\[\frac{e^{a}}{e^{a} + e^{b}}\]

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Target

Original0.6
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\[\frac{1}{1 + e^{b - a}}\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 0.6

    \[\frac{e^{a}}{e^{a} + e^{b}}\]

  2. Taylor expanded around -inf 0.6

    \[\leadsto \frac{e^{a}}{\color{blue}{e^{b} + e^{a}}}\]

  3. Final simplification0.6

    \[\leadsto \frac{e^{a}}{e^{a} + e^{b}}\]

Runtime

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Regimes0.60.60.60.00%
herbie shell --seed 2018340 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (a b)
  :name "Quotient of sum of exps"

  :herbie-target
  (/ 1 (+ 1 (exp (- b a))))

  (/ (exp a) (+ (exp a) (exp b))))