Average Error: 28.8 → 0.0
Time: 17.5s
Precision: 64
\[e^{a \cdot x} - 1\]
↓
\[\mathsf{expm1}\left(\left(a \cdot x\right)\right)\]
e^{a \cdot x} - 1
↓
\mathsf{expm1}\left(\left(a \cdot x\right)\right)
double f(double a, double x) {
        double r3773449 = a;
        double r3773450 = x;
        double r3773451 = r3773449 * r3773450;
        double r3773452 = exp(r3773451);
        double r3773453 = 1.0;
        double r3773454 = r3773452 - r3773453;
        return r3773454;
}
↓
double f(double a, double x) {
        double r3773455 = a;
        double r3773456 = x;
        double r3773457 = r3773455 * r3773456;
        double r3773458 = expm1(r3773457);
        return r3773458;
}

Error

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Results

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Target

Original28.8
Target0.2
Herbie0.0
\[\begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\left|a \cdot x\right| \lt \frac{1}{10}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(a \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(1 + \left(\frac{a \cdot x}{2} + \frac{{\left(a \cdot x\right)}^{2}}{6}\right)\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;e^{a \cdot x} - 1\\ \end{array}\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 28.8

    \[e^{a \cdot x} - 1\]

  2. Simplified0.0

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(\left(a \cdot x\right)\right)}\]

  3. Final simplification0.0

    \[\leadsto \mathsf{expm1}\left(\left(a \cdot x\right)\right)\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2019132 +o rules:numerics
(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))