Average Error: 62.0 → 52.0
Time: 1.8s
Precision: binary64
\[lo < -1 \cdot 10^{+308} \land hi > 10^{+308}\]
\[\frac{x - lo}{hi - lo}\]
↓
\[\frac{x - lo}{hi}\]
\frac{x - lo}{hi - lo}
↓
\frac{x - lo}{hi}
(FPCore (lo hi x) :precision binary64 (/ (- x lo) (- hi lo)))
↓
(FPCore (lo hi x) :precision binary64 (/ (- x lo) hi))
double code(double lo, double hi, double x) {
	return (x - lo) / (hi - lo);
}
↓
double code(double lo, double hi, double x) {
	return (x - lo) / hi;
}

Error

Bits error versus lo

Bits error versus hi

Bits error versus x

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Derivation

  1. Initial program 62.0

    \[\frac{x - lo}{hi - lo}\]

  2. Taylor expanded around inf 52.0

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{x - lo}{hi}}\]

  3. Final simplification52.0

    \[\leadsto \frac{x - lo}{hi}\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2021044 
(FPCore (lo hi x)
  :name "(/ (- x lo) (- hi lo))"
  :precision binary64
  :pre (and (< lo -1e+308) (> hi 1e+308))
  (/ (- x lo) (- hi lo)))