expax (section 3.5)

Percentage Accurate: 54.9% → 100.0%

Time: 7.5s

Alternatives: 7

Speedup: 18.2×

Specification

\[710 > a \cdot x\]

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ e^{a \cdot x} - 1 \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a x) :precision binary64 (- (exp (* a x)) 1.0))

C

double code(double a, double x) {
	return exp((a * x)) - 1.0;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, x)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    code = exp((a * x)) - 1.0d0
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double x) {
	return Math.exp((a * x)) - 1.0;
}

Python

def code(a, x):
	return math.exp((a * x)) - 1.0

Julia

function code(a, x)
	return Float64(exp(Float64(a * x)) - 1.0)
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, x)
	tmp = exp((a * x)) - 1.0;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, x_] := N[(N[Exp[N[(a * x), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - 1.0), $MachinePrecision]

Initial Program: 54.9% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ e^{a \cdot x} - 1 \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a x) :precision binary64 (- (exp (* a x)) 1.0))

C

double code(double a, double x) {
	return exp((a * x)) - 1.0;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, x)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    code = exp((a * x)) - 1.0d0
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double x) {
	return Math.exp((a * x)) - 1.0;
}

Python

def code(a, x):
	return math.exp((a * x)) - 1.0

Julia

function code(a, x)
	return Float64(exp(Float64(a * x)) - 1.0)
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, x)
	tmp = exp((a * x)) - 1.0;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, x_] := N[(N[Exp[N[(a * x), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - 1.0), $MachinePrecision]

Alternative 1: 100.0% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \mathsf{expm1}\left(a \cdot x\right) \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a x) :precision binary64 (expm1 (* a x)))

C

double code(double a, double x) {
	return expm1((a * x));
}

Java

public static double code(double a, double x) {
	return Math.expm1((a * x));
}

Python

def code(a, x):
	return math.expm1((a * x))

Julia

function code(a, x)
	return expm1(Float64(a * x))
end

Wolfram

code[a_, x_] := N[(Exp[N[(a * x), $MachinePrecision]] - 1), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 52.1%

   \[e^{a \cdot x} - 1 \]
2. Add Preprocessing
3. Step-by-step derivation

   1. lift--.f64 N/A

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

   2. lift-exp.f64 N/A

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

   3. lower-expm1.f64 100.0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(a \cdot x\right)} \]

4. Applied rewrites 100.0%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(a \cdot x\right)} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 2: 98.8% accurate, 2.2× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;a \cdot x \leq -100000:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right) - x, 1\right)} + -1\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(x \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a, x \cdot 0.16666666666666666, 0.5\right), a \cdot \left(a \cdot x\right), a \cdot x\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a x)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (* a x) -100000.0)
   (+ (/ 1.0 (fma a (- (* a (* x x)) x) 1.0)) -1.0)
   (fma (* x (fma a (* x 0.16666666666666666) 0.5)) (* a (* a x)) (* a x))))

C

double code(double a, double x) {
	double tmp;
	if ((a * x) <= -100000.0) {
		tmp = (1.0 / fma(a, ((a * (x * x)) - x), 1.0)) + -1.0;
	} else {
		tmp = fma((x * fma(a, (x * 0.16666666666666666), 0.5)), (a * (a * x)), (a * x));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, x)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(a * x) <= -100000.0)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(1.0 / fma(a, Float64(Float64(a * Float64(x * x)) - x), 1.0)) + -1.0);
	else
		tmp = fma(Float64(x * fma(a, Float64(x * 0.16666666666666666), 0.5)), Float64(a * Float64(a * x)), Float64(a * x));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, x_] := If[LessEqual[N[(a * x), $MachinePrecision], -100000.0], N[(N[(1.0 / N[(a * N[(N[(a * N[(x * x), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - x), $MachinePrecision] + 1.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + -1.0), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(x * N[(a * N[(x * 0.16666666666666666), $MachinePrecision] + 0.5), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * N[(a * N[(a * x), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[(a * x), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (*.f64 a x) < -1e5

   1. Initial program 100.0%

      \[e^{a \cdot x} - 1 \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(1 + a \cdot x\right)} - 1 \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot x + 1\right)} - 1 \]

      2. lower-fma.f64 4.6

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, x, 1\right)} - 1 \]

   5. Applied rewrites 4.6%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, x, 1\right)} - 1 \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

   7. Applied rewrites 3.4%

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{1 - a \cdot x}{1 - \left(a \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot x\right)}}} - 1 \]

   8. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

   10. Applied rewrites 99.3%

       \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, \color{blue}{a \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right) - x}, 1\right)} - 1 \]

   if -1e5 < (*.f64 a x)

   1. Initial program 28.6%

      \[e^{a \cdot x} - 1 \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{a \cdot \left(x + a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot \left(a \cdot {x}^{3}\right) + \frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2}\right)\right)} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. lower-*.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{a \cdot \left(x + a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot \left(a \cdot {x}^{3}\right) + \frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2}\right)\right)} \]

      2. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto a \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot \left(a \cdot {x}^{3}\right) + \frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2}\right) + x\right)} \]

      3. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto a \cdot \left(a \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2} + \frac{1}{6} \cdot \left(a \cdot {x}^{3}\right)\right)} + x\right) \]

      4. associate-*r* N/A

         \[\leadsto a \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2} + \color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot a\right) \cdot {x}^{3}}\right) + x\right) \]

      5. cube-mult N/A

         \[\leadsto a \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2} + \left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot a\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(x \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right)\right)}\right) + x\right) \]

      6. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto a \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2} + \left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(x \cdot \color{blue}{{x}^{2}}\right)\right) + x\right) \]

      7. associate-*r* N/A

         \[\leadsto a \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2} + \color{blue}{\left(\left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot a\right) \cdot x\right) \cdot {x}^{2}}\right) + x\right) \]

      8. distribute-rgt-out N/A

         \[\leadsto a \cdot \left(a \cdot \color{blue}{\left({x}^{2} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} + \left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot a\right) \cdot x\right)\right)} + x\right) \]

      9. associate-*r* N/A

         \[\leadsto a \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot {x}^{2}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} + \left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot a\right) \cdot x\right)} + x\right) \]

      10. +-commutative N/A

          \[\leadsto a \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot {x}^{2}\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot a\right) \cdot x + \frac{1}{2}\right)} + x\right) \]

      11. lower-fma.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto a \cdot \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot {x}^{2}, \left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot a\right) \cdot x + \frac{1}{2}, x\right)} \]

   5. Applied rewrites 91.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{a \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right), \mathsf{fma}\left(a, x \cdot 0.16666666666666666, 0.5\right), x\right)} \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

   7. Applied rewrites 98.9%

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(x \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a, x \cdot 0.16666666666666666, 0.5\right), \color{blue}{a \cdot \left(a \cdot x\right)}, a \cdot x\right) \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 99.1%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;a \cdot x \leq -100000:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right) - x, 1\right)} + -1\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(x \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a, x \cdot 0.16666666666666666, 0.5\right), a \cdot \left(a \cdot x\right), a \cdot x\right)\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 3: 98.8% accurate, 2.4× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;a \cdot x \leq -100000:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right) - x, 1\right)} + -1\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;a \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(\left(a \cdot x\right) \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a, x \cdot 0.16666666666666666, 0.5\right), x, x\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a x)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (* a x) -100000.0)
   (+ (/ 1.0 (fma a (- (* a (* x x)) x) 1.0)) -1.0)
   (* a (fma (* (* a x) (fma a (* x 0.16666666666666666) 0.5)) x x))))

C

double code(double a, double x) {
	double tmp;
	if ((a * x) <= -100000.0) {
		tmp = (1.0 / fma(a, ((a * (x * x)) - x), 1.0)) + -1.0;
	} else {
		tmp = a * fma(((a * x) * fma(a, (x * 0.16666666666666666), 0.5)), x, x);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, x)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(a * x) <= -100000.0)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(1.0 / fma(a, Float64(Float64(a * Float64(x * x)) - x), 1.0)) + -1.0);
	else
		tmp = Float64(a * fma(Float64(Float64(a * x) * fma(a, Float64(x * 0.16666666666666666), 0.5)), x, x));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, x_] := If[LessEqual[N[(a * x), $MachinePrecision], -100000.0], N[(N[(1.0 / N[(a * N[(N[(a * N[(x * x), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - x), $MachinePrecision] + 1.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + -1.0), $MachinePrecision], N[(a * N[(N[(N[(a * x), $MachinePrecision] * N[(a * N[(x * 0.16666666666666666), $MachinePrecision] + 0.5), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * x + x), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (*.f64 a x) < -1e5

   1. Initial program 100.0%

      \[e^{a \cdot x} - 1 \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(1 + a \cdot x\right)} - 1 \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot x + 1\right)} - 1 \]

      2. lower-fma.f64 4.6

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, x, 1\right)} - 1 \]

   5. Applied rewrites 4.6%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, x, 1\right)} - 1 \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

   7. Applied rewrites 3.4%

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{1 - a \cdot x}{1 - \left(a \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot x\right)}}} - 1 \]

   8. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

   10. Applied rewrites 99.3%

       \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, \color{blue}{a \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right) - x}, 1\right)} - 1 \]

   if -1e5 < (*.f64 a x)

   1. Initial program 28.6%

      \[e^{a \cdot x} - 1 \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{a \cdot \left(x + a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot \left(a \cdot {x}^{3}\right) + \frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2}\right)\right)} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. lower-*.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{a \cdot \left(x + a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot \left(a \cdot {x}^{3}\right) + \frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2}\right)\right)} \]

      2. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto a \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot \left(a \cdot {x}^{3}\right) + \frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2}\right) + x\right)} \]

      3. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto a \cdot \left(a \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2} + \frac{1}{6} \cdot \left(a \cdot {x}^{3}\right)\right)} + x\right) \]

      4. associate-*r* N/A

         \[\leadsto a \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2} + \color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot a\right) \cdot {x}^{3}}\right) + x\right) \]

      5. cube-mult N/A

         \[\leadsto a \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2} + \left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot a\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(x \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right)\right)}\right) + x\right) \]

      6. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto a \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2} + \left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(x \cdot \color{blue}{{x}^{2}}\right)\right) + x\right) \]

      7. associate-*r* N/A

         \[\leadsto a \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2} + \color{blue}{\left(\left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot a\right) \cdot x\right) \cdot {x}^{2}}\right) + x\right) \]

      8. distribute-rgt-out N/A

         \[\leadsto a \cdot \left(a \cdot \color{blue}{\left({x}^{2} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} + \left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot a\right) \cdot x\right)\right)} + x\right) \]

      9. associate-*r* N/A

         \[\leadsto a \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot {x}^{2}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} + \left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot a\right) \cdot x\right)} + x\right) \]

      10. +-commutative N/A

          \[\leadsto a \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot {x}^{2}\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot a\right) \cdot x + \frac{1}{2}\right)} + x\right) \]

      11. lower-fma.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto a \cdot \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot {x}^{2}, \left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot a\right) \cdot x + \frac{1}{2}, x\right)} \]

   5. Applied rewrites 91.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{a \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right), \mathsf{fma}\left(a, x \cdot 0.16666666666666666, 0.5\right), x\right)} \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

   7. Applied rewrites 99.0%

      \[\leadsto a \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, x \cdot 0.16666666666666666, 0.5\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot x\right), \color{blue}{x}, x\right) \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 99.1%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;a \cdot x \leq -100000:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right) - x, 1\right)} + -1\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;a \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(\left(a \cdot x\right) \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a, x \cdot 0.16666666666666666, 0.5\right), x, x\right)\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 4: 98.5% accurate, 2.5× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;a \cdot x \leq -100000:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{1 - a \cdot x} + -1\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;a \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(\left(a \cdot x\right) \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a, x \cdot 0.16666666666666666, 0.5\right), x, x\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a x)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (* a x) -100000.0)
   (+ (/ 1.0 (- 1.0 (* a x))) -1.0)
   (* a (fma (* (* a x) (fma a (* x 0.16666666666666666) 0.5)) x x))))

C

double code(double a, double x) {
	double tmp;
	if ((a * x) <= -100000.0) {
		tmp = (1.0 / (1.0 - (a * x))) + -1.0;
	} else {
		tmp = a * fma(((a * x) * fma(a, (x * 0.16666666666666666), 0.5)), x, x);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, x)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(a * x) <= -100000.0)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(1.0 / Float64(1.0 - Float64(a * x))) + -1.0);
	else
		tmp = Float64(a * fma(Float64(Float64(a * x) * fma(a, Float64(x * 0.16666666666666666), 0.5)), x, x));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, x_] := If[LessEqual[N[(a * x), $MachinePrecision], -100000.0], N[(N[(1.0 / N[(1.0 - N[(a * x), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + -1.0), $MachinePrecision], N[(a * N[(N[(N[(a * x), $MachinePrecision] * N[(a * N[(x * 0.16666666666666666), $MachinePrecision] + 0.5), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * x + x), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (*.f64 a x) < -1e5

   1. Initial program 100.0%

      \[e^{a \cdot x} - 1 \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(1 + a \cdot x\right)} - 1 \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot x + 1\right)} - 1 \]

      2. lower-fma.f64 4.6

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, x, 1\right)} - 1 \]

   5. Applied rewrites 4.6%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, x, 1\right)} - 1 \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

   7. Applied rewrites 3.4%

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{1 - a \cdot x}{1 - \left(a \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot x\right)}}} - 1 \]

   8. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{1 + \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \left(a \cdot x\right)}} - 1 \]
   9. Step-by-step derivation

   10. Applied rewrites 99.1%

       \[\leadsto \frac{1}{1 - \color{blue}{a \cdot x}} - 1 \]

   if -1e5 < (*.f64 a x)

   1. Initial program 28.6%

      \[e^{a \cdot x} - 1 \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{a \cdot \left(x + a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot \left(a \cdot {x}^{3}\right) + \frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2}\right)\right)} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. lower-*.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{a \cdot \left(x + a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot \left(a \cdot {x}^{3}\right) + \frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2}\right)\right)} \]

      2. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto a \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot \left(a \cdot {x}^{3}\right) + \frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2}\right) + x\right)} \]

      3. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto a \cdot \left(a \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2} + \frac{1}{6} \cdot \left(a \cdot {x}^{3}\right)\right)} + x\right) \]

      4. associate-*r* N/A

         \[\leadsto a \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2} + \color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot a\right) \cdot {x}^{3}}\right) + x\right) \]

      5. cube-mult N/A

         \[\leadsto a \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2} + \left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot a\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(x \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right)\right)}\right) + x\right) \]

      6. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto a \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2} + \left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(x \cdot \color{blue}{{x}^{2}}\right)\right) + x\right) \]

      7. associate-*r* N/A

         \[\leadsto a \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2} + \color{blue}{\left(\left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot a\right) \cdot x\right) \cdot {x}^{2}}\right) + x\right) \]

      8. distribute-rgt-out N/A

         \[\leadsto a \cdot \left(a \cdot \color{blue}{\left({x}^{2} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} + \left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot a\right) \cdot x\right)\right)} + x\right) \]

      9. associate-*r* N/A

         \[\leadsto a \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot {x}^{2}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} + \left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot a\right) \cdot x\right)} + x\right) \]

      10. +-commutative N/A

          \[\leadsto a \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot {x}^{2}\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot a\right) \cdot x + \frac{1}{2}\right)} + x\right) \]

      11. lower-fma.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto a \cdot \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot {x}^{2}, \left(\frac{1}{6} \cdot a\right) \cdot x + \frac{1}{2}, x\right)} \]

   5. Applied rewrites 91.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{a \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right), \mathsf{fma}\left(a, x \cdot 0.16666666666666666, 0.5\right), x\right)} \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

   7. Applied rewrites 99.0%

      \[\leadsto a \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, x \cdot 0.16666666666666666, 0.5\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot x\right), \color{blue}{x}, x\right) \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 99.0%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;a \cdot x \leq -100000:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{1 - a \cdot x} + -1\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;a \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(\left(a \cdot x\right) \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a, x \cdot 0.16666666666666666, 0.5\right), x, x\right)\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 5: 98.2% accurate, 3.2× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;a \cdot x \leq -100000:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{1 - a \cdot x} + -1\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;a \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(\left(a \cdot x\right) \cdot 0.5, x, x\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a x)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (* a x) -100000.0)
   (+ (/ 1.0 (- 1.0 (* a x))) -1.0)
   (* a (fma (* (* a x) 0.5) x x))))

C

double code(double a, double x) {
	double tmp;
	if ((a * x) <= -100000.0) {
		tmp = (1.0 / (1.0 - (a * x))) + -1.0;
	} else {
		tmp = a * fma(((a * x) * 0.5), x, x);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, x)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(a * x) <= -100000.0)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(1.0 / Float64(1.0 - Float64(a * x))) + -1.0);
	else
		tmp = Float64(a * fma(Float64(Float64(a * x) * 0.5), x, x));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, x_] := If[LessEqual[N[(a * x), $MachinePrecision], -100000.0], N[(N[(1.0 / N[(1.0 - N[(a * x), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + -1.0), $MachinePrecision], N[(a * N[(N[(N[(a * x), $MachinePrecision] * 0.5), $MachinePrecision] * x + x), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (*.f64 a x) < -1e5

   1. Initial program 100.0%

      \[e^{a \cdot x} - 1 \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(1 + a \cdot x\right)} - 1 \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot x + 1\right)} - 1 \]

      2. lower-fma.f64 4.6

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, x, 1\right)} - 1 \]

   5. Applied rewrites 4.6%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, x, 1\right)} - 1 \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

   7. Applied rewrites 3.4%

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{1 - a \cdot x}{1 - \left(a \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot x\right)}}} - 1 \]

   8. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{1 + \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \left(a \cdot x\right)}} - 1 \]
   9. Step-by-step derivation

   10. Applied rewrites 99.1%

       \[\leadsto \frac{1}{1 - \color{blue}{a \cdot x}} - 1 \]

   if -1e5 < (*.f64 a x)

   1. Initial program 28.6%

      \[e^{a \cdot x} - 1 \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{a \cdot x} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. lower-*.f64 97.5

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{a \cdot x} \]

   5. Applied rewrites 97.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{a \cdot x} \]

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. distribute-rgt-in N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{x \cdot a + \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \left(a \cdot {x}^{2}\right)\right) \cdot a} \]

      2. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto x \cdot a + \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot {x}^{2}\right) \cdot \frac{1}{2}\right)} \cdot a \]

      3. associate-*r* N/A

         \[\leadsto x \cdot a + \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot \left({x}^{2} \cdot \frac{1}{2}\right)\right)} \cdot a \]

      4. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto x \cdot a + \left(a \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2}\right)}\right) \cdot a \]

      5. associate-*r* N/A

         \[\leadsto x \cdot a + \color{blue}{a \cdot \left(\left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2}\right) \cdot a\right)} \]

      6. metadata-eval N/A

         \[\leadsto x \cdot a + a \cdot \left(\left(\color{blue}{\left(\frac{-1}{2} + 1\right)} \cdot {x}^{2}\right) \cdot a\right) \]

      7. distribute-rgt1-in N/A

         \[\leadsto x \cdot a + a \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left({x}^{2} + \frac{-1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2}\right)} \cdot a\right) \]

      8. metadata-eval N/A

         \[\leadsto x \cdot a + a \cdot \left(\left({x}^{2} + \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{2}\right)\right)} \cdot {x}^{2}\right) \cdot a\right) \]

      9. cancel-sign-sub-inv N/A

         \[\leadsto x \cdot a + a \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left({x}^{2} - \frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2}\right)} \cdot a\right) \]

      10. *-commutative N/A

          \[\leadsto x \cdot a + a \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot \left({x}^{2} - \frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2}\right)\right)} \]

      11. *-commutative N/A

          \[\leadsto x \cdot a + \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot \left({x}^{2} - \frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2}\right)\right) \cdot a} \]

      12. distribute-rgt-in N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{a \cdot \left(x + a \cdot \left({x}^{2} - \frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2}\right)\right)} \]

      13. +-commutative N/A

          \[\leadsto a \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot \left({x}^{2} - \frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2}\right) + x\right)} \]

   8. Applied rewrites 91.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{a \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(x \cdot x, a \cdot 0.5, x\right)} \]
   9. Step-by-step derivation

   10. Applied rewrites 98.4%

       \[\leadsto a \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(\left(a \cdot x\right) \cdot 0.5, \color{blue}{x}, x\right) \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 98.6%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;a \cdot x \leq -100000:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{1 - a \cdot x} + -1\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;a \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(\left(a \cdot x\right) \cdot 0.5, x, x\right)\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 6: 66.2% accurate, 18.2× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ a \cdot x \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a x) :precision binary64 (* a x))

C

double code(double a, double x) {
	return a * x;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, x)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    code = a * x
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double x) {
	return a * x;
}

Python

def code(a, x):
	return a * x

Julia

function code(a, x)
	return Float64(a * x)
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, x)
	tmp = a * x;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, x_] := N[(a * x), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 52.1%

   \[e^{a \cdot x} - 1 \]
2. Add Preprocessing

3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{a \cdot x} \]
4. Step-by-step derivation

   1. lower-*.f64 67.0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{a \cdot x} \]

5. Applied rewrites 67.0%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{a \cdot x} \]
6. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 7: 19.8% accurate, 27.3× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ 1 + -1 \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a x) :precision binary64 (+ 1.0 -1.0))

C

double code(double a, double x) {
	return 1.0 + -1.0;
}

Fortran

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

Java

public static double code(double a, double x) {
	return 1.0 + -1.0;
}

Python

def code(a, x):
	return 1.0 + -1.0

Julia

function code(a, x)
	return Float64(1.0 + -1.0)
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, x)
	tmp = 1.0 + -1.0;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, x_] := N[(1.0 + -1.0), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 52.1%

   \[e^{a \cdot x} - 1 \]
2. Add Preprocessing

3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{1} - 1 \]
4. Step-by-step derivation

5. Applied rewrites 18.0%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{1} - 1 \]

6. Final simplification 18.0%

   \[\leadsto 1 + -1 \]
7. Add Preprocessing

Developer Target 1: 100.0% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \mathsf{expm1}\left(a \cdot x\right) \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a x) :precision binary64 (expm1 (* a x)))

C

double code(double a, double x) {
	return expm1((a * x));
}

Java

public static double code(double a, double x) {
	return Math.expm1((a * x));
}

Python

def code(a, x):
	return math.expm1((a * x))

Julia

function code(a, x)
	return expm1(Float64(a * x))
end

Wolfram

code[a_, x_] := N[(Exp[N[(a * x), $MachinePrecision]] - 1), $MachinePrecision]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2024232 
(FPCore (a x)
  :name "expax (section 3.5)"
  :precision binary64
  :pre (> 710.0 (* a x))

  :alt
  (! :herbie-platform default (expm1 (* a x)))

  (- (exp (* a x)) 1.0))