fabs fraction 2

Percentage Accurate: 100.0% → 100.0%
Time: 2.5s
Alternatives: 1
Speedup: 21.0×

Specification

?
\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\left|a - b\right|}{2} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (/ (fabs (- a b)) 2.0))
double code(double a, double b) {
	return fabs((a - b)) / 2.0;
}

real(8) function code(a, b)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    code = abs((a - b)) / 2.0d0
end function

public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return Math.abs((a - b)) / 2.0;
}

def code(a, b):
	return math.fabs((a - b)) / 2.0

function code(a, b)
	return Float64(abs(Float64(a - b)) / 2.0)
end

function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = abs((a - b)) / 2.0;
end

code[a_, b_] := N[(N[Abs[N[(a - b), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] / 2.0), $MachinePrecision]

\begin{array}{l}

\\
\frac{\left|a - b\right|}{2}
\end{array}

Sampling outcomes in binary64 precision:

Local Percentage Accuracy vs ?

The average percentage accuracy by input value. Horizontal axis shows value of an input variable; the variable is choosen in the title. Vertical axis is accuracy; higher is better. Red represent the original program, while blue represents Herbie's suggestion. These can be toggled with buttons below the plot. The line is an average while dots represent individual samples.

Accuracy vs Speed?

Herbie found 1 alternatives:

AlternativeAccuracySpeedup
The accuracy (vertical axis) and speed (horizontal axis) of each alternatives. Up and to the right is better. The red square shows the initial program, and each blue circle shows an alternative.The line shows the best available speed-accuracy tradeoffs.

Initial Program: 100.0% accurate, 1.0× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\left|a - b\right|}{2} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (/ (fabs (- a b)) 2.0))
double code(double a, double b) {
	return fabs((a - b)) / 2.0;
}

real(8) function code(a, b)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    code = abs((a - b)) / 2.0d0
end function

public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return Math.abs((a - b)) / 2.0;
}

def code(a, b):
	return math.fabs((a - b)) / 2.0

function code(a, b)
	return Float64(abs(Float64(a - b)) / 2.0)
end

function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = abs((a - b)) / 2.0;
end

code[a_, b_] := N[(N[Abs[N[(a - b), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] / 2.0), $MachinePrecision]

\begin{array}{l}

\\
\frac{\left|a - b\right|}{2}
\end{array}

Alternative 1: 100.0% accurate, 21.0× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \\ \frac{b - a}{2} \end{array} \]
NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (/ (- b a) 2.0))
assert(a < b);
double code(double a, double b) {
	return (b - a) / 2.0;
}

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
real(8) function code(a, b)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    code = (b - a) / 2.0d0
end function

assert a < b;
public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return (b - a) / 2.0;
}

[a, b] = sort([a, b])
def code(a, b):
	return (b - a) / 2.0

a, b = sort([a, b])
function code(a, b)
	return Float64(Float64(b - a) / 2.0)
end

a, b = num2cell(sort([a, b])){:}
function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = (b - a) / 2.0;
end

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
code[a_, b_] := N[(N[(b - a), $MachinePrecision] / 2.0), $MachinePrecision]

\begin{array}{l}
[a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\
\\
\frac{b - a}{2}
\end{array}
Derivation

  1. Initial program 100.0%

    \[\frac{\left|a - b\right|}{2} \]
  2. Step-by-step derivation

    1. fabs-sub100.0%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left|b - a\right|}}{2} \]

  3. Simplified100.0%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left|b - a\right|}{2}} \]
  4. Add Preprocessing

  5. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 100.0%

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

    1. fabs-neg100.0%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left|a + -1 \cdot b\right|}}{2} \]

    2. mul-1-neg100.0%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\left|a + \color{blue}{\left(-b\right)}\right|}{2} \]

    3. sub-neg100.0%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\left|\color{blue}{a - b}\right|}{2} \]

    4. fabs-sub100.0%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left|b - a\right|}}{2} \]

    5. rem-square-sqrt46.1%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\left|\color{blue}{\sqrt{b - a} \cdot \sqrt{b - a}}\right|}{2} \]

    6. fabs-sqr46.1%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\sqrt{b - a} \cdot \sqrt{b - a}}}{2} \]

    7. rem-square-sqrt47.0%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b - a}}{2} \]

  7. Simplified47.0%

    \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b - a}}{2} \]
  8. Add Preprocessing

Reproduce

?
herbie shell --seed 2024179 
(FPCore (a b)
  :name "fabs fraction 2"
  :precision binary64
  (/ (fabs (- a b)) 2.0))