Average Error: 29.5 → 0.0
Time: 27.8s
Precision: 64
\[e^{a \cdot x} - 1\]
↓
\[\mathsf{expm1}\left(a \cdot x\right)\]
e^{a \cdot x} - 1
↓
\mathsf{expm1}\left(a \cdot x\right)
double f(double a, double x) {
        double r4942613 = a;
        double r4942614 = x;
        double r4942615 = r4942613 * r4942614;
        double r4942616 = exp(r4942615);
        double r4942617 = 1.0;
        double r4942618 = r4942616 - r4942617;
        return r4942618;
}
↓
double f(double a, double x) {
        double r4942619 = a;
        double r4942620 = x;
        double r4942621 = r4942619 * r4942620;
        double r4942622 = expm1(r4942621);
        return r4942622;
}

Error

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Results

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Target

Original29.5
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 29.5

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

  2. Simplified0.0

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

  3. Final simplification0.0

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2019138 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (a x)
  :name "expax (section 3.5)"
  :herbie-expected 14

  :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))