Average Error: 0.6 → 0.5
Time: 2.5s
Precision: binary64
\[\frac{e^{a}}{e^{a} + e^{b}} \]
↓
\[e^{a - \log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right)} \]
(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (/ (exp a) (+ (exp a) (exp b))))
↓
(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (exp (- a (log (+ (exp a) (exp b))))))
double code(double a, double b) {
	return exp(a) / (exp(a) + exp(b));
}
↓
double code(double a, double b) {
	return exp((a - log((exp(a) + exp(b)))));
}

real(8) function code(a, b)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    code = exp(a) / (exp(a) + exp(b))
end function
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real(8) function code(a, b)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    code = exp((a - log((exp(a) + exp(b)))))
end function

public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return Math.exp(a) / (Math.exp(a) + Math.exp(b));
}
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public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return Math.exp((a - Math.log((Math.exp(a) + Math.exp(b)))));
}

def code(a, b):
	return math.exp(a) / (math.exp(a) + math.exp(b))
↓
def code(a, b):
	return math.exp((a - math.log((math.exp(a) + math.exp(b)))))

function code(a, b)
	return Float64(exp(a) / Float64(exp(a) + exp(b)))
end
↓
function code(a, b)
	return exp(Float64(a - log(Float64(exp(a) + exp(b)))))
end

function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = exp(a) / (exp(a) + exp(b));
end
↓
function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = exp((a - log((exp(a) + exp(b)))));
end

code[a_, b_] := N[(N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision] / N[(N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision] + N[Exp[b], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
↓
code[a_, b_] := N[Exp[N[(a - N[Log[N[(N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision] + N[Exp[b], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]

\frac{e^{a}}{e^{a} + e^{b}}
↓
e^{a - \log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right)}

Error

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Results

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Target

Original0.6
Target0.0
Herbie0.5
\[\frac{1}{1 + e^{b - a}} \]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 0.6

    \[\frac{e^{a}}{e^{a} + e^{b}} \]

  2. Applied egg-rr0.5

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

  3. Final simplification0.5

    \[\leadsto e^{a - \log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right)} \]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2022140 
(FPCore (a b)
  :name "Quotient of sum of exps"
  :precision binary64

  :herbie-target
  (/ 1.0 (+ 1.0 (exp (- b a))))

  (/ (exp a) (+ (exp a) (exp b))))