Average Error: 39.8 → 0.4
Time: 2.3s
Precision: 64
\[\frac{e^{x} - 1}{x}\]
↓
\[\begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;x \le -2.285697559519662 \cdot 10^{-4}:\\ \;\;\;\;e^{x} \cdot \frac{1}{x} - \frac{1}{x}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;x \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} + x \cdot \frac{1}{6}\right) + 1\\ \end{array}\]
\frac{e^{x} - 1}{x}
↓
\begin{array}{l}
\mathbf{if}\;x \le -2.285697559519662 \cdot 10^{-4}:\\
\;\;\;\;e^{x} \cdot \frac{1}{x} - \frac{1}{x}\\

\mathbf{else}:\\
\;\;\;\;x \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} + x \cdot \frac{1}{6}\right) + 1\\

\end{array}
double code(double x) {
	return ((exp(x) - 1.0) / x);
}
↓
double code(double x) {
	double temp;
	if ((x <= -0.0002285697559519662)) {
		temp = ((exp(x) * (1.0 / x)) - (1.0 / x));
	} else {
		temp = ((x * (0.5 + (x * 0.16666666666666666))) + 1.0);
	}
	return temp;
}

Error

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Results

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Target

Original39.8
Target40.2
Herbie0.4
\[\begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;x \lt 1 \land x \gt -1:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{e^{x} - 1}{\log \left(e^{x}\right)}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{e^{x} - 1}{x}\\ \end{array}\]

Derivation

  1. Split input into 2 regimes

  2. if x < -0.0002285697559519662

    1. Initial program 0.1

      \[\frac{e^{x} - 1}{x}\]
    2. Using strategy rm

    3. Applied div-sub0.1

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{e^{x}}{x} - \frac{1}{x}}\]
    4. Using strategy rm

    5. Applied div-inv0.1

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{e^{x} \cdot \frac{1}{x}} - \frac{1}{x}\]

    if -0.0002285697559519662 < x

    1. Initial program 60.0

      \[\frac{e^{x} - 1}{x}\]

    2. Taylor expanded around 0 0.5

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

    4. Applied associate-+r+0.5

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

    5. Simplified0.5

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{x \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} + x \cdot \frac{1}{6}\right)} + 1\]
  3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

  4. Final simplification0.4

    \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;x \le -2.285697559519662 \cdot 10^{-4}:\\ \;\;\;\;e^{x} \cdot \frac{1}{x} - \frac{1}{x}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;x \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} + x \cdot \frac{1}{6}\right) + 1\\ \end{array}\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020057 
(FPCore (x)
  :name "Kahan's exp quotient"
  :precision binary64

  :herbie-target
  (if (and (< x 1) (> x -1)) (/ (- (exp x) 1) (log (exp x))) (/ (- (exp x) 1) x))

  (/ (- (exp x) 1) x))