Average Error: 0.1 → 0.0
Time: 4.5s
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 r492440 = x;
        double r492441 = y;
        double r492442 = r492440 + r492441;
        double r492443 = r492441 + r492441;
        double r492444 = r492442 / r492443;
        return r492444;
}
↓
double f(double x, double y) {
        double r492445 = 0.5;
        double r492446 = x;
        double r492447 = y;
        double r492448 = r492446 / r492447;
        double r492449 = fma(r492445, r492448, r492445);
        return r492449;
}

Error

Bits error versus x

Bits error versus y

Target

Original0.1
Target0.0
Herbie0.0
\[0.5 \cdot \frac{x}{y} + 0.5\]

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 2019235 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (x y)
  :name "Data.Random.Distribution.T:$ccdf from random-fu-0.2.6.2"
  :precision binary64

  :herbie-target
  (+ (* 0.5 (/ x y)) 0.5)

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