Average Error: 0.1 → 0.0
Time: 4.2s
Precision: 64
\[\frac{x + y}{y + y}\]
\[\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{1}{2}, \frac{x}{y}, \frac{1}{2}\right)\]
\frac{x + y}{y + y}
\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{1}{2}, \frac{x}{y}, \frac{1}{2}\right)
double f(double x, double y) {
        double r21886555 = x;
        double r21886556 = y;
        double r21886557 = r21886555 + r21886556;
        double r21886558 = r21886556 + r21886556;
        double r21886559 = r21886557 / r21886558;
        return r21886559;
}

double f(double x, double y) {
        double r21886560 = 0.5;
        double r21886561 = x;
        double r21886562 = y;
        double r21886563 = r21886561 / r21886562;
        double r21886564 = fma(r21886560, r21886563, r21886560);
        return r21886564;
}

Error

Bits error versus x

Bits error versus y

Target

Original0.1
Target0.0
Herbie0.0
\[\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{x}{y} + \frac{1}{2}\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 0.1

    \[\frac{x + y}{y + y}\]
  2. Taylor expanded around 0 0.0

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{x}{y} + \frac{1}{2}}\]
  3. Simplified0.0

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{1}{2}, \frac{x}{y}, \frac{1}{2}\right)}\]
  4. Final simplification0.0

    \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{1}{2}, \frac{x}{y}, \frac{1}{2}\right)\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2019163 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (x y)
  :name "Data.Random.Distribution.T:$ccdf from random-fu-0.2.6.2"

  :herbie-target
  (+ (* 1/2 (/ x y)) 1/2)

  (/ (+ x y) (+ y y)))