Average Error: 58.8 → 0.3
Time: 6.9s
Precision: 64
\[-1.700000000000000122124532708767219446599 \cdot 10^{-4} \lt x\]
\[e^{x} - 1\]
↓
\[\mathsf{fma}\left({x}^{2}, \mathsf{fma}\left(x, \frac{1}{6}, \frac{1}{2}\right), x\right)\]
e^{x} - 1
↓
\mathsf{fma}\left({x}^{2}, \mathsf{fma}\left(x, \frac{1}{6}, \frac{1}{2}\right), x\right)
double f(double x) {
        double r61319 = x;
        double r61320 = exp(r61319);
        double r61321 = 1.0;
        double r61322 = r61320 - r61321;
        return r61322;
}
↓
double f(double x) {
        double r61323 = x;
        double r61324 = 2.0;
        double r61325 = pow(r61323, r61324);
        double r61326 = 0.16666666666666666;
        double r61327 = 0.5;
        double r61328 = fma(r61323, r61326, r61327);
        double r61329 = fma(r61325, r61328, r61323);
        return r61329;
}

Error

Bits error versus x

Target

Original58.8
Target0.3
Herbie0.3
\[x \cdot \left(\left(1 + \frac{x}{2}\right) + \frac{x \cdot x}{6}\right)\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 58.8

    \[e^{x} - 1\]

  2. Taylor expanded around 0 0.3

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2} + \left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot {x}^{3} + x\right)}\]

  3. Simplified0.3

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left({x}^{2}, \mathsf{fma}\left(x, \frac{1}{6}, \frac{1}{2}\right), x\right)}\]

  4. Final simplification0.3

    \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left({x}^{2}, \mathsf{fma}\left(x, \frac{1}{6}, \frac{1}{2}\right), x\right)\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2019351 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (x)
  :name "expm1 (example 3.7)"
  :precision binary64
  :pre (< -0.00017 x)

  :herbie-target
  (* x (+ (+ 1 (/ x 2)) (/ (* x x) 6)))

  (- (exp x) 1))