Average Error: 60.4 → 3.3
Time: 9.7s
Precision: binary64
\[-1 < \varepsilon \land \varepsilon < 1\]
\[\frac{\varepsilon \cdot \left(e^{\left(a + b\right) \cdot \varepsilon} - 1\right)}{\left(e^{a \cdot \varepsilon} - 1\right) \cdot \left(e^{b \cdot \varepsilon} - 1\right)}\]
↓
\[\frac{1}{b} + \frac{1}{a}\]
\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}
(FPCore (a b eps)
 :precision binary64
 (/
  (* eps (- (exp (* (+ a b) eps)) 1.0))
  (* (- (exp (* a eps)) 1.0) (- (exp (* b eps)) 1.0))))
↓
(FPCore (a b eps) :precision binary64 (+ (/ 1.0 b) (/ 1.0 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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Target

Original60.4
Target15.1
Herbie3.3
\[\frac{a + b}{a \cdot b}\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 60.4

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

  2. Taylor expanded around 0 3.3

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

  3. Final simplification3.3

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020224 
(FPCore (a b eps)
  :name "expq3 (problem 3.4.2)"
  :precision binary64
  :pre (and (< -1.0 eps) (< eps 1.0))

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

  (/ (* eps (- (exp (* (+ a b) eps)) 1.0)) (* (- (exp (* a eps)) 1.0) (- (exp (* b eps)) 1.0))))