Average Error: 60.3 → 3.4
Time: 9.2s
Precision: 64
\[-1 \lt \varepsilon \land \varepsilon \lt 1\]
\[\frac{\varepsilon \cdot \left(e^{\left(a + b\right) \cdot \varepsilon} - 1\right)}{\left(e^{a \cdot \varepsilon} - 1\right) \cdot \left(e^{b \cdot \varepsilon} - 1\right)}\]
↓
\[\frac{1}{b} + \frac{1}{a}\]
\frac{\varepsilon \cdot \left(e^{\left(a + b\right) \cdot \varepsilon} - 1\right)}{\left(e^{a \cdot \varepsilon} - 1\right) \cdot \left(e^{b \cdot \varepsilon} - 1\right)}
↓
\frac{1}{b} + \frac{1}{a}
double code(double a, double b, double eps) {
	return ((eps * (exp(((a + b) * eps)) - 1.0)) / ((exp((a * eps)) - 1.0) * (exp((b * eps)) - 1.0)));
}
↓
double code(double a, double b, double eps) {
	return ((1.0 / b) + (1.0 / a));
}

Error

Bits error versus a

Bits error versus b

Bits error versus eps

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Results

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Target

Original60.3
Target14.9
Herbie3.4
\[\frac{a + b}{a \cdot b}\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 60.3

    \[\frac{\varepsilon \cdot \left(e^{\left(a + b\right) \cdot \varepsilon} - 1\right)}{\left(e^{a \cdot \varepsilon} - 1\right) \cdot \left(e^{b \cdot \varepsilon} - 1\right)}\]

  2. Taylor expanded around 0 57.8

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

  3. Simplified57.8

    \[\leadsto \frac{\varepsilon \cdot \left(e^{\left(a + b\right) \cdot \varepsilon} - 1\right)}{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{1}{6}, {a}^{3} \cdot {\varepsilon}^{3}, \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{1}{2}, {a}^{2} \cdot {\varepsilon}^{2}, a \cdot \varepsilon\right)\right)} \cdot \left(e^{b \cdot \varepsilon} - 1\right)}\]

  4. Taylor expanded around 0 3.4

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{b} + \frac{1}{a}}\]

  5. Final simplification3.4

    \[\leadsto \frac{1}{b} + \frac{1}{a}\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020106 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (a b eps)
  :name "expq3 (problem 3.4.2)"
  :precision binary64
  :pre (and (< -1 eps) (< eps 1))

  :herbie-target
  (/ (+ a b) (* a b))

  (/ (* eps (- (exp (* (+ a b) eps)) 1)) (* (- (exp (* a eps)) 1) (- (exp (* b eps)) 1))))