Average Error: 0.0 → 0
Time: 615.0ms
Precision: 64
\[x + \frac{y - x}{2}\]
↓
\[\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, x, 0.5 \cdot y\right)\]
x + \frac{y - x}{2}
↓
\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, x, 0.5 \cdot y\right)
double f(double x, double y) {
        double r432349 = x;
        double r432350 = y;
        double r432351 = r432350 - r432349;
        double r432352 = 2.0;
        double r432353 = r432351 / r432352;
        double r432354 = r432349 + r432353;
        return r432354;
}
↓
double f(double x, double y) {
        double r432355 = 0.5;
        double r432356 = x;
        double r432357 = y;
        double r432358 = r432355 * r432357;
        double r432359 = fma(r432355, r432356, r432358);
        return r432359;
}

Error

Bits error versus x

Bits error versus y

Target

Original0.0
Target0
Herbie0
\[0.5 \cdot \left(x + y\right)\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 0.0

    \[x + \frac{y - x}{2}\]

  2. Taylor expanded around 0 0

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{0.5 \cdot x + 0.5 \cdot y}\]

  3. Simplified0

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, x, 0.5 \cdot y\right)}\]

  4. Final simplification0

    \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, x, 0.5 \cdot y\right)\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2019353 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (x y)
  :name "Numeric.Interval.Internal:bisect from intervals-0.7.1, A"
  :precision binary64

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

  (+ x (/ (- y x) 2)))