Quotient of sum of exps

Percentage Accurate: 98.9% → 100.0%

Time: 5.7s

Alternatives: 6

Speedup: 2.9×

• could not determine a ground truth

  1. a = -2.00000000000000007e154
  2. b = -2.00000000000000007e154

Specification

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{e^{a}}{e^{a} + e^{b}} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (/ (exp a) (+ (exp a) (exp b))))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	return exp(a) / (exp(a) + exp(b));
}

Fortran

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

Java

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

Python

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

Julia

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

MATLAB

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

Wolfram

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

Initial Program: 98.9% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{e^{a}}{e^{a} + e^{b}} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (/ (exp a) (+ (exp a) (exp b))))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	return exp(a) / (exp(a) + exp(b));
}

Fortran

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

Java

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

Python

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

Julia

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

MATLAB

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

Wolfram

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

Alternative 1: 100.0% accurate, 2.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{1}{1 + e^{b - a}} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (/ 1.0 (+ 1.0 (exp (- b a)))))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	return 1.0 / (1.0 + exp((b - a)));
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    code = 1.0d0 / (1.0d0 + exp((b - a)))
end function

Java

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

Python

def code(a, b):
	return 1.0 / (1.0 + math.exp((b - a)))

Julia

function code(a, b)
	return Float64(1.0 / Float64(1.0 + exp(Float64(b - a))))
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = 1.0 / (1.0 + exp((b - a)));
end

Wolfram

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

Derivation

1. Initial program 99.2%

   \[\frac{e^{a}}{e^{a} + e^{b}} \]
2. Step-by-step derivation

   1. *-lft-identity 99.2%

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

   2. associate-*l/ 99.2%

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

   3. associate-/r/ 99.2%

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

   4. remove-double-neg 99.2%

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

   5. unsub-neg 99.2%

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

   6. div-sub 72.2%

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{e^{a}}{e^{a}} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}}} \]

   7. *-lft-identity 72.2%

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{\color{blue}{1 \cdot e^{a}}}{e^{a}} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}} \]

   8. associate-*l/ 72.2%

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{e^{a}} \cdot e^{a}} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}} \]

   9. lft-mult-inverse 99.6%

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{1} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}} \]

   10. sub-neg 99.6%

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

   11. distribute-frac-neg 99.6%

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

   12. remove-double-neg 99.6%

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

   13. div-exp 100.0%

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

3. Simplified 100.0%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{1 + e^{b - a}}} \]
4. Add Preprocessing

5. Final simplification 100.0%

   \[\leadsto \frac{1}{1 + e^{b - a}} \]
6. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 2: 98.2% accurate, 2.7× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;a \leq -1550000000000:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{1 + e^{-a}}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{1 + e^{b}}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= a -1550000000000.0)
   (/ 1.0 (+ 1.0 (exp (- a))))
   (/ 1.0 (+ 1.0 (exp b)))))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (a <= -1550000000000.0) {
		tmp = 1.0 / (1.0 + exp(-a));
	} else {
		tmp = 1.0 / (1.0 + exp(b));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8) :: tmp
    if (a <= (-1550000000000.0d0)) then
        tmp = 1.0d0 / (1.0d0 + exp(-a))
    else
        tmp = 1.0d0 / (1.0d0 + exp(b))
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (a <= -1550000000000.0) {
		tmp = 1.0 / (1.0 + Math.exp(-a));
	} else {
		tmp = 1.0 / (1.0 + Math.exp(b));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b):
	tmp = 0
	if a <= -1550000000000.0:
		tmp = 1.0 / (1.0 + math.exp(-a))
	else:
		tmp = 1.0 / (1.0 + math.exp(b))
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (a <= -1550000000000.0)
		tmp = Float64(1.0 / Float64(1.0 + exp(Float64(-a))));
	else
		tmp = Float64(1.0 / Float64(1.0 + exp(b)));
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (a <= -1550000000000.0)
		tmp = 1.0 / (1.0 + exp(-a));
	else
		tmp = 1.0 / (1.0 + exp(b));
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[a, -1550000000000.0], N[(1.0 / N[(1.0 + N[Exp[(-a)], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(1.0 / N[(1.0 + N[Exp[b], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if a < -1.55e12

   1. Initial program 100.0%

      \[\frac{e^{a}}{e^{a} + e^{b}} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-lft-identity 100.0%

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

      2. associate-*l/ 100.0%

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

      3. associate-/r/ 100.0%

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

      4. remove-double-neg 100.0%

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

      5. unsub-neg 100.0%

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

      6. div-sub 0.0%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{e^{a}}{e^{a}} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}}} \]

      7. *-lft-identity 0.0%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{\color{blue}{1 \cdot e^{a}}}{e^{a}} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}} \]

      8. associate-*l/ 0.0%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{e^{a}} \cdot e^{a}} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}} \]

      9. lft-mult-inverse 100.0%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{1} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}} \]

      10. sub-neg 100.0%

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

      11. distribute-frac-neg 100.0%

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

      12. remove-double-neg 100.0%

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

      13. div-exp 100.0%

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

   3. Simplified 100.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{1 + e^{b - a}}} \]
   4. Add Preprocessing

   5. Taylor expanded in b around 0 100.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{1 + e^{-a}}} \]

   if -1.55e12 < a

   1. Initial program 98.9%

      \[\frac{e^{a}}{e^{a} + e^{b}} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-lft-identity 98.9%

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

      2. associate-*l/ 98.9%

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

      3. associate-/r/ 98.9%

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

      4. remove-double-neg 98.9%

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

      5. unsub-neg 98.9%

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

      6. div-sub 98.4%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{e^{a}}{e^{a}} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}}} \]

      7. *-lft-identity 98.4%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{\color{blue}{1 \cdot e^{a}}}{e^{a}} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}} \]

      8. associate-*l/ 98.4%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{e^{a}} \cdot e^{a}} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}} \]

      9. lft-mult-inverse 99.4%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{1} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}} \]

      10. sub-neg 99.4%

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

      11. distribute-frac-neg 99.4%

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

      12. remove-double-neg 99.4%

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

      13. div-exp 100.0%

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

   3. Simplified 100.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{1 + e^{b - a}}} \]
   4. Add Preprocessing

   5. Taylor expanded in a around 0 99.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{1 + e^{b}}} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 99.3%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;a \leq -1550000000000:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{1 + e^{-a}}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{1 + e^{b}}\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 3: 81.0% accurate, 2.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{1}{1 + e^{b}} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (/ 1.0 (+ 1.0 (exp b))))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	return 1.0 / (1.0 + exp(b));
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    code = 1.0d0 / (1.0d0 + exp(b))
end function

Java

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

Python

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

Julia

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

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = 1.0 / (1.0 + exp(b));
end

Wolfram

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

Derivation

1. Initial program 99.2%

   \[\frac{e^{a}}{e^{a} + e^{b}} \]
2. Step-by-step derivation

   1. *-lft-identity 99.2%

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

   2. associate-*l/ 99.2%

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

   3. associate-/r/ 99.2%

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

   4. remove-double-neg 99.2%

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

   5. unsub-neg 99.2%

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

   6. div-sub 72.2%

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{e^{a}}{e^{a}} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}}} \]

   7. *-lft-identity 72.2%

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{\color{blue}{1 \cdot e^{a}}}{e^{a}} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}} \]

   8. associate-*l/ 72.2%

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{e^{a}} \cdot e^{a}} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}} \]

   9. lft-mult-inverse 99.6%

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{1} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}} \]

   10. sub-neg 99.6%

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

   11. distribute-frac-neg 99.6%

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

   12. remove-double-neg 99.6%

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

   13. div-exp 100.0%

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

3. Simplified 100.0%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{1 + e^{b - a}}} \]
4. Add Preprocessing

5. Taylor expanded in a around 0 79.6%

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

6. Final simplification 79.6%

   \[\leadsto \frac{1}{1 + e^{b}} \]
7. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 4: 57.3% accurate, 15.2× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -2:\\ \;\;\;\;0.5\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{2 + b \cdot \left(1 + b \cdot \left(0.5 + b \cdot 0.16666666666666666\right)\right)}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -2.0)
   0.5
   (/ 1.0 (+ 2.0 (* b (+ 1.0 (* b (+ 0.5 (* b 0.16666666666666666)))))))))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -2.0) {
		tmp = 0.5;
	} else {
		tmp = 1.0 / (2.0 + (b * (1.0 + (b * (0.5 + (b * 0.16666666666666666))))));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8) :: tmp
    if (b <= (-2.0d0)) then
        tmp = 0.5d0
    else
        tmp = 1.0d0 / (2.0d0 + (b * (1.0d0 + (b * (0.5d0 + (b * 0.16666666666666666d0))))))
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -2.0) {
		tmp = 0.5;
	} else {
		tmp = 1.0 / (2.0 + (b * (1.0 + (b * (0.5 + (b * 0.16666666666666666))))));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -2.0:
		tmp = 0.5
	else:
		tmp = 1.0 / (2.0 + (b * (1.0 + (b * (0.5 + (b * 0.16666666666666666))))))
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -2.0)
		tmp = 0.5;
	else
		tmp = Float64(1.0 / Float64(2.0 + Float64(b * Float64(1.0 + Float64(b * Float64(0.5 + Float64(b * 0.16666666666666666)))))));
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= -2.0)
		tmp = 0.5;
	else
		tmp = 1.0 / (2.0 + (b * (1.0 + (b * (0.5 + (b * 0.16666666666666666))))));
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[b, -2.0], 0.5, N[(1.0 / N[(2.0 + N[(b * N[(1.0 + N[(b * N[(0.5 + N[(b * 0.16666666666666666), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < -2

   1. Initial program 95.6%

      \[\frac{e^{a}}{e^{a} + e^{b}} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-lft-identity 95.6%

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

      2. associate-*l/ 95.6%

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

      3. associate-/r/ 95.6%

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

      4. remove-double-neg 95.6%

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

      5. unsub-neg 95.6%

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

      6. div-sub 95.6%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{e^{a}}{e^{a}} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}}} \]

      7. *-lft-identity 95.6%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{\color{blue}{1 \cdot e^{a}}}{e^{a}} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}} \]

      8. associate-*l/ 95.6%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{e^{a}} \cdot e^{a}} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}} \]

      9. lft-mult-inverse 97.8%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{1} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}} \]

      10. sub-neg 97.8%

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

      11. distribute-frac-neg 97.8%

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

      12. remove-double-neg 97.8%

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

      13. div-exp 100.0%

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

   3. Simplified 100.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{1 + e^{b - a}}} \]
   4. Add Preprocessing

   5. Taylor expanded in a around 0 100.0%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around 0 18.8%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{0.5} \]

   if -2 < b

   1. Initial program 100.0%

      \[\frac{e^{a}}{e^{a} + e^{b}} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-lft-identity 100.0%

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

      2. associate-*l/ 100.0%

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

      3. associate-/r/ 100.0%

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

      4. remove-double-neg 100.0%

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

      5. unsub-neg 100.0%

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

      6. div-sub 67.3%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{e^{a}}{e^{a}} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}}} \]

      7. *-lft-identity 67.3%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{\color{blue}{1 \cdot e^{a}}}{e^{a}} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}} \]

      8. associate-*l/ 67.3%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{e^{a}} \cdot e^{a}} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}} \]

      9. lft-mult-inverse 100.0%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{1} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}} \]

      10. sub-neg 100.0%

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

      11. distribute-frac-neg 100.0%

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

      12. remove-double-neg 100.0%

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

      13. div-exp 100.0%

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

   3. Simplified 100.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{1 + e^{b - a}}} \]
   4. Add Preprocessing

   5. Taylor expanded in a around 0 75.2%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around 0 66.0%

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{2 + b \cdot \left(1 + b \cdot \left(0.5 + 0.16666666666666666 \cdot b\right)\right)}} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 66.0%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{2 + b \cdot \left(1 + b \cdot \left(0.5 + \color{blue}{b \cdot 0.16666666666666666}\right)\right)} \]

   8. Simplified 66.0%

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{2 + b \cdot \left(1 + b \cdot \left(0.5 + b \cdot 0.16666666666666666\right)\right)}} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 57.7%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -2:\\ \;\;\;\;0.5\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{2 + b \cdot \left(1 + b \cdot \left(0.5 + b \cdot 0.16666666666666666\right)\right)}\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 5: 53.0% accurate, 19.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -2:\\ \;\;\;\;0.5\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{2 + b \cdot \left(1 + b \cdot 0.5\right)}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -2.0) 0.5 (/ 1.0 (+ 2.0 (* b (+ 1.0 (* b 0.5)))))))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -2.0) {
		tmp = 0.5;
	} else {
		tmp = 1.0 / (2.0 + (b * (1.0 + (b * 0.5))));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8) :: tmp
    if (b <= (-2.0d0)) then
        tmp = 0.5d0
    else
        tmp = 1.0d0 / (2.0d0 + (b * (1.0d0 + (b * 0.5d0))))
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -2.0) {
		tmp = 0.5;
	} else {
		tmp = 1.0 / (2.0 + (b * (1.0 + (b * 0.5))));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -2.0:
		tmp = 0.5
	else:
		tmp = 1.0 / (2.0 + (b * (1.0 + (b * 0.5))))
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -2.0)
		tmp = 0.5;
	else
		tmp = Float64(1.0 / Float64(2.0 + Float64(b * Float64(1.0 + Float64(b * 0.5)))));
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= -2.0)
		tmp = 0.5;
	else
		tmp = 1.0 / (2.0 + (b * (1.0 + (b * 0.5))));
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[b, -2.0], 0.5, N[(1.0 / N[(2.0 + N[(b * N[(1.0 + N[(b * 0.5), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < -2

   1. Initial program 95.6%

      \[\frac{e^{a}}{e^{a} + e^{b}} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-lft-identity 95.6%

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

      2. associate-*l/ 95.6%

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

      3. associate-/r/ 95.6%

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

      4. remove-double-neg 95.6%

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

      5. unsub-neg 95.6%

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

      6. div-sub 95.6%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{e^{a}}{e^{a}} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}}} \]

      7. *-lft-identity 95.6%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{\color{blue}{1 \cdot e^{a}}}{e^{a}} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}} \]

      8. associate-*l/ 95.6%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{e^{a}} \cdot e^{a}} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}} \]

      9. lft-mult-inverse 97.8%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{1} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}} \]

      10. sub-neg 97.8%

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

      11. distribute-frac-neg 97.8%

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

      12. remove-double-neg 97.8%

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

      13. div-exp 100.0%

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

   3. Simplified 100.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{1 + e^{b - a}}} \]
   4. Add Preprocessing

   5. Taylor expanded in a around 0 100.0%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around 0 18.8%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{0.5} \]

   if -2 < b

   1. Initial program 100.0%

      \[\frac{e^{a}}{e^{a} + e^{b}} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-lft-identity 100.0%

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

      2. associate-*l/ 100.0%

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

      3. associate-/r/ 100.0%

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

      4. remove-double-neg 100.0%

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

      5. unsub-neg 100.0%

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

      6. div-sub 67.3%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{e^{a}}{e^{a}} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}}} \]

      7. *-lft-identity 67.3%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{\color{blue}{1 \cdot e^{a}}}{e^{a}} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}} \]

      8. associate-*l/ 67.3%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{e^{a}} \cdot e^{a}} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}} \]

      9. lft-mult-inverse 100.0%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{1} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}} \]

      10. sub-neg 100.0%

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

      11. distribute-frac-neg 100.0%

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

      12. remove-double-neg 100.0%

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

      13. div-exp 100.0%

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

   3. Simplified 100.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{1 + e^{b - a}}} \]
   4. Add Preprocessing

   5. Taylor expanded in a around 0 75.2%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around 0 62.4%

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{2 + b \cdot \left(1 + 0.5 \cdot b\right)}} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 54.7%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -2:\\ \;\;\;\;0.5\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{2 + b \cdot \left(1 + b \cdot 0.5\right)}\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 6: 38.9% accurate, 305.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ 0.5 \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 0.5)

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	return 0.5;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    code = 0.5d0
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return 0.5;
}

Python

def code(a, b):
	return 0.5

Julia

function code(a, b)
	return 0.5
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.5;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := 0.5

Derivation

1. Initial program 99.2%

   \[\frac{e^{a}}{e^{a} + e^{b}} \]
2. Step-by-step derivation

   1. *-lft-identity 99.2%

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

   2. associate-*l/ 99.2%

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

   3. associate-/r/ 99.2%

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

   4. remove-double-neg 99.2%

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

   5. unsub-neg 99.2%

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

   6. div-sub 72.2%

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{e^{a}}{e^{a}} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}}} \]

   7. *-lft-identity 72.2%

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{\color{blue}{1 \cdot e^{a}}}{e^{a}} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}} \]

   8. associate-*l/ 72.2%

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{e^{a}} \cdot e^{a}} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}} \]

   9. lft-mult-inverse 99.6%

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{1} - \frac{-e^{b}}{e^{a}}} \]

   10. sub-neg 99.6%

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

   11. distribute-frac-neg 99.6%

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

   12. remove-double-neg 99.6%

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

   13. div-exp 100.0%

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

3. Simplified 100.0%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{1 + e^{b - a}}} \]
4. Add Preprocessing

5. Taylor expanded in a around 0 79.6%

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

6. Taylor expanded in b around 0 38.8%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{0.5} \]

7. Final simplification 38.8%

   \[\leadsto 0.5 \]
8. Add Preprocessing

Developer target: 100.0% accurate, 2.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{1}{1 + e^{b - a}} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (/ 1.0 (+ 1.0 (exp (- b a)))))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	return 1.0 / (1.0 + exp((b - a)));
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    code = 1.0d0 / (1.0d0 + exp((b - a)))
end function

Java

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

Python

def code(a, b):
	return 1.0 / (1.0 + math.exp((b - a)))

Julia

function code(a, b)
	return Float64(1.0 / Float64(1.0 + exp(Float64(b - a))))
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = 1.0 / (1.0 + exp((b - a)));
end

Wolfram

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2024075 
(FPCore (a b)
  :name "Quotient of sum of exps"
  :precision binary64

  :alt
  (/ 1.0 (+ 1.0 (exp (- b a))))

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