expax (section 3.5)

Average Error: 29.2 → 0.4

Time: 3.3s

Precision: 64

Math

\[e^{a \cdot x} - 1\]

↓

\[\begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;a \cdot x \le -0.0016860671913569562:\\ \;\;\;\;\log \left(e^{e^{a \cdot x} - 1}\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(a \cdot x + \frac{1}{2} \cdot {\left(a \cdot x\right)}^{2}\right) + \frac{1}{6} \cdot {\left(a \cdot x\right)}^{3}\\ \end{array}\]

C

double code(double a, double x) {
	return (exp((a * x)) - 1.0);
}

↓

double code(double a, double x) {
	double VAR;
	if (((a * x) <= -0.0016860671913569562)) {
		VAR = log(exp((exp((a * x)) - 1.0)));
	} else {
		VAR = (((a * x) + (0.5 * pow((a * x), 2.0))) + (0.16666666666666666 * pow((a * x), 3.0)));
	}
	return VAR;
}

Error

Bits error versus a

Bits error versus x

Target

Original	29.2
Target	0.2
Herbie	0.4

\[\begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\left|a \cdot x\right| \lt 0.10000000000000001:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(a \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(1 + \left(\frac{a \cdot x}{2} + \frac{{\left(a \cdot x\right)}^{2}}{6}\right)\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;e^{a \cdot x} - 1\\ \end{array}\]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (* a x) < -0.0016860671913569562

   1. Initial program 0.0

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

   3. Applied add-log-exp 0.0

      \[\leadsto e^{a \cdot x} - \color{blue}{\log \left(e^{1}\right)}\]

   4. Applied add-log-exp 0.0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(e^{e^{a \cdot x}}\right)} - \log \left(e^{1}\right)\]

   5. Applied diff-log 0.0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(\frac{e^{e^{a \cdot x}}}{e^{1}}\right)}\]

   6. Simplified 0.0

      \[\leadsto \log \color{blue}{\left(e^{e^{a \cdot x} - 1}\right)}\]

   if -0.0016860671913569562 < (* a x)

   1. Initial program 44.0

      \[e^{a \cdot x} - 1\]

   2. Taylor expanded around 0 14.1

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

   3. Simplified 14.1

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

   5. Applied pow-prod-down 4.5

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

   7. Applied distribute-lft-in 4.5

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

   8. Simplified 4.5

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

   9. Simplified 0.5

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

4. Final simplification 0.4

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;a \cdot x \le -0.0016860671913569562:\\ \;\;\;\;\log \left(e^{e^{a \cdot x} - 1}\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(a \cdot x + \frac{1}{2} \cdot {\left(a \cdot x\right)}^{2}\right) + \frac{1}{6} \cdot {\left(a \cdot x\right)}^{3}\\ \end{array}\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020079 
(FPCore (a x)
  :name "expax (section 3.5)"
  :precision binary64
  :herbie-expected 14

  :herbie-target
  (if (< (fabs (* a x)) 0.1) (* (* a x) (+ 1 (+ (/ (* a x) 2) (/ (pow (* a x) 2) 6)))) (- (exp (* a x)) 1))

  (- (exp (* a x)) 1))