Average Error: 29.3 → 1.1
Time: 15.3s
Precision: binary64
\[ \begin{array}{c}[a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \end{array} \]
\[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
↓
\[\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} \]
(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (log (+ (exp a) (exp b))))
↓
(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (+ (log1p (exp a)) (/ b (+ (exp a) 1.0))))
double code(double a, double b) {
	return log((exp(a) + exp(b)));
}
↓
double code(double a, double b) {
	return log1p(exp(a)) + (b / (exp(a) + 1.0));
}

public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return Math.log((Math.exp(a) + Math.exp(b)));
}
↓
public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return Math.log1p(Math.exp(a)) + (b / (Math.exp(a) + 1.0));
}

def code(a, b):
	return math.log((math.exp(a) + math.exp(b)))
↓
def code(a, b):
	return math.log1p(math.exp(a)) + (b / (math.exp(a) + 1.0))

function code(a, b)
	return log(Float64(exp(a) + exp(b)))
end
↓
function code(a, b)
	return Float64(log1p(exp(a)) + Float64(b / Float64(exp(a) + 1.0)))
end

code[a_, b_] := N[Log[N[(N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision] + N[Exp[b], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]
↓
code[a_, b_] := N[(N[Log[1 + N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] + N[(b / N[(N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision] + 1.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]

\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right)
↓
\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1}

Error

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Bits error versus b

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Derivation

  1. Initial program 29.3

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

  2. Taylor expanded in b around 0 1.2

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

  3. Simplified1.1

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} \]

  4. Applied egg-rr1.1

    \[\leadsto \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{\color{blue}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(1 + e^{a}\right)\right)}} \]

  5. Taylor expanded in a around inf 1.1

    \[\leadsto \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{\color{blue}{1 + e^{a}}} \]

  6. Simplified1.1

    \[\leadsto \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{\color{blue}{e^{a} + 1}} \]

  7. Final simplification1.1

    \[\leadsto \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} \]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2022150 
(FPCore (a b)
  :name "symmetry log of sum of exp"
  :precision binary64
  (log (+ (exp a) (exp b))))