ENA, Section 1.4, Exercise 4b, n=2

Percentage Accurate: 75.1% → 100.0%
Time: 5.7s
Alternatives: 4
Speedup: 17.4×

Specification

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\[\left(-1000000000 \leq x \land x \leq 1000000000\right) \land \left(-1 \leq \varepsilon \land \varepsilon \leq 1\right)\]
\[\begin{array}{l} \\ {\left(x + \varepsilon\right)}^{2} - {x}^{2} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (x eps) :precision binary64 (- (pow (+ x eps) 2.0) (pow x 2.0)))
double code(double x, double eps) {
	return pow((x + eps), 2.0) - pow(x, 2.0);
}
real(8) function code(x, eps)
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    real(8), intent (in) :: eps
    code = ((x + eps) ** 2.0d0) - (x ** 2.0d0)
end function
public static double code(double x, double eps) {
	return Math.pow((x + eps), 2.0) - Math.pow(x, 2.0);
}
def code(x, eps):
	return math.pow((x + eps), 2.0) - math.pow(x, 2.0)
function code(x, eps)
	return Float64((Float64(x + eps) ^ 2.0) - (x ^ 2.0))
end
function tmp = code(x, eps)
	tmp = ((x + eps) ^ 2.0) - (x ^ 2.0);
end
code[x_, eps_] := N[(N[Power[N[(x + eps), $MachinePrecision], 2.0], $MachinePrecision] - N[Power[x, 2.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
{\left(x + \varepsilon\right)}^{2} - {x}^{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 4 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: 75.1% accurate, 1.0× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ {\left(x + \varepsilon\right)}^{2} - {x}^{2} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (x eps) :precision binary64 (- (pow (+ x eps) 2.0) (pow x 2.0)))
double code(double x, double eps) {
	return pow((x + eps), 2.0) - pow(x, 2.0);
}
real(8) function code(x, eps)
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    real(8), intent (in) :: eps
    code = ((x + eps) ** 2.0d0) - (x ** 2.0d0)
end function
public static double code(double x, double eps) {
	return Math.pow((x + eps), 2.0) - Math.pow(x, 2.0);
}
def code(x, eps):
	return math.pow((x + eps), 2.0) - math.pow(x, 2.0)
function code(x, eps)
	return Float64((Float64(x + eps) ^ 2.0) - (x ^ 2.0))
end
function tmp = code(x, eps)
	tmp = ((x + eps) ^ 2.0) - (x ^ 2.0);
end
code[x_, eps_] := N[(N[Power[N[(x + eps), $MachinePrecision], 2.0], $MachinePrecision] - N[Power[x, 2.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
{\left(x + \varepsilon\right)}^{2} - {x}^{2}
\end{array}

Alternative 1: 100.0% accurate, 17.4× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \varepsilon \cdot \left(x + \left(x + \varepsilon\right)\right) \end{array} \]
(FPCore (x eps) :precision binary64 (* eps (+ x (+ x eps))))
double code(double x, double eps) {
	return eps * (x + (x + eps));
}
real(8) function code(x, eps)
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    real(8), intent (in) :: eps
    code = eps * (x + (x + eps))
end function
public static double code(double x, double eps) {
	return eps * (x + (x + eps));
}
def code(x, eps):
	return eps * (x + (x + eps))
function code(x, eps)
	return Float64(eps * Float64(x + Float64(x + eps)))
end
function tmp = code(x, eps)
	tmp = eps * (x + (x + eps));
end
code[x_, eps_] := N[(eps * N[(x + N[(x + eps), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\varepsilon \cdot \left(x + \left(x + \varepsilon\right)\right)
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 79.1%

    \[{\left(x + \varepsilon\right)}^{2} - {x}^{2} \]
  2. Add Preprocessing
  3. Taylor expanded in x around 0

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{2 \cdot \left(\varepsilon \cdot x\right) + {\varepsilon}^{2}} \]
  4. Step-by-step derivation
    1. associate-*r*N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot \varepsilon\right) \cdot x} + {\varepsilon}^{2} \]
    2. *-commutativeN/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{x \cdot \left(2 \cdot \varepsilon\right)} + {\varepsilon}^{2} \]
    3. *-rgt-identityN/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(x \cdot \left(2 \cdot \varepsilon\right)\right) \cdot 1} + {\varepsilon}^{2} \]
    4. *-inversesN/A

      \[\leadsto \left(x \cdot \left(2 \cdot \varepsilon\right)\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{\varepsilon}{\varepsilon}} + {\varepsilon}^{2} \]
    5. associate-/l*N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(x \cdot \left(2 \cdot \varepsilon\right)\right) \cdot \varepsilon}{\varepsilon}} + {\varepsilon}^{2} \]
    6. associate-*r*N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left(\left(x \cdot 2\right) \cdot \varepsilon\right)} \cdot \varepsilon}{\varepsilon} + {\varepsilon}^{2} \]
    7. *-commutativeN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\left(\color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot x\right)} \cdot \varepsilon\right) \cdot \varepsilon}{\varepsilon} + {\varepsilon}^{2} \]
    8. associate-*r*N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(\varepsilon \cdot \varepsilon\right)}}{\varepsilon} + {\varepsilon}^{2} \]
    9. unpow2N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\left(2 \cdot x\right) \cdot \color{blue}{{\varepsilon}^{2}}}{\varepsilon} + {\varepsilon}^{2} \]
    10. associate-*l/N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{2 \cdot x}{\varepsilon} \cdot {\varepsilon}^{2}} + {\varepsilon}^{2} \]
    11. associate-*r/N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot \frac{x}{\varepsilon}\right)} \cdot {\varepsilon}^{2} + {\varepsilon}^{2} \]
    12. *-commutativeN/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\varepsilon}^{2} \cdot \left(2 \cdot \frac{x}{\varepsilon}\right)} + {\varepsilon}^{2} \]
    13. *-rgt-identityN/A

      \[\leadsto {\varepsilon}^{2} \cdot \left(2 \cdot \frac{x}{\varepsilon}\right) + \color{blue}{{\varepsilon}^{2} \cdot 1} \]
    14. distribute-lft-inN/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\varepsilon}^{2} \cdot \left(2 \cdot \frac{x}{\varepsilon} + 1\right)} \]
    15. +-commutativeN/A

      \[\leadsto {\varepsilon}^{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(1 + 2 \cdot \frac{x}{\varepsilon}\right)} \]
    16. unpow2N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\varepsilon \cdot \varepsilon\right)} \cdot \left(1 + 2 \cdot \frac{x}{\varepsilon}\right) \]
    17. associate-*l*N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\varepsilon \cdot \left(\varepsilon \cdot \left(1 + 2 \cdot \frac{x}{\varepsilon}\right)\right)} \]
    18. lower-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\varepsilon \cdot \left(\varepsilon \cdot \left(1 + 2 \cdot \frac{x}{\varepsilon}\right)\right)} \]
    19. +-commutativeN/A

      \[\leadsto \varepsilon \cdot \left(\varepsilon \cdot \color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot \frac{x}{\varepsilon} + 1\right)}\right) \]
    20. distribute-rgt-inN/A

      \[\leadsto \varepsilon \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(2 \cdot \frac{x}{\varepsilon}\right) \cdot \varepsilon + 1 \cdot \varepsilon\right)} \]
  5. Applied rewrites100.0%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\varepsilon \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(x, 2, \varepsilon\right)} \]
  6. Step-by-step derivation
    1. Applied rewrites100.0%

      \[\leadsto \left(x + \left(x + \varepsilon\right)\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\varepsilon} \]
    2. Final simplification100.0%

      \[\leadsto \varepsilon \cdot \left(x + \left(x + \varepsilon\right)\right) \]
    3. Add Preprocessing

    Alternative 2: 97.6% accurate, 0.9× speedup?

    \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;{\left(x + \varepsilon\right)}^{2} - {x}^{2} \leq 0:\\ \;\;\;\;\varepsilon \cdot \left(x + x\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\varepsilon \cdot \varepsilon\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]
    (FPCore (x eps)
     :precision binary64
     (if (<= (- (pow (+ x eps) 2.0) (pow x 2.0)) 0.0) (* eps (+ x x)) (* eps eps)))
    double code(double x, double eps) {
    	double tmp;
    	if ((pow((x + eps), 2.0) - pow(x, 2.0)) <= 0.0) {
    		tmp = eps * (x + x);
    	} else {
    		tmp = eps * eps;
    	}
    	return tmp;
    }
    
    real(8) function code(x, eps)
        real(8), intent (in) :: x
        real(8), intent (in) :: eps
        real(8) :: tmp
        if ((((x + eps) ** 2.0d0) - (x ** 2.0d0)) <= 0.0d0) then
            tmp = eps * (x + x)
        else
            tmp = eps * eps
        end if
        code = tmp
    end function
    
    public static double code(double x, double eps) {
    	double tmp;
    	if ((Math.pow((x + eps), 2.0) - Math.pow(x, 2.0)) <= 0.0) {
    		tmp = eps * (x + x);
    	} else {
    		tmp = eps * eps;
    	}
    	return tmp;
    }
    
    def code(x, eps):
    	tmp = 0
    	if (math.pow((x + eps), 2.0) - math.pow(x, 2.0)) <= 0.0:
    		tmp = eps * (x + x)
    	else:
    		tmp = eps * eps
    	return tmp
    
    function code(x, eps)
    	tmp = 0.0
    	if (Float64((Float64(x + eps) ^ 2.0) - (x ^ 2.0)) <= 0.0)
    		tmp = Float64(eps * Float64(x + x));
    	else
    		tmp = Float64(eps * eps);
    	end
    	return tmp
    end
    
    function tmp_2 = code(x, eps)
    	tmp = 0.0;
    	if ((((x + eps) ^ 2.0) - (x ^ 2.0)) <= 0.0)
    		tmp = eps * (x + x);
    	else
    		tmp = eps * eps;
    	end
    	tmp_2 = tmp;
    end
    
    code[x_, eps_] := If[LessEqual[N[(N[Power[N[(x + eps), $MachinePrecision], 2.0], $MachinePrecision] - N[Power[x, 2.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], 0.0], N[(eps * N[(x + x), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(eps * eps), $MachinePrecision]]
    
    \begin{array}{l}
    
    \\
    \begin{array}{l}
    \mathbf{if}\;{\left(x + \varepsilon\right)}^{2} - {x}^{2} \leq 0:\\
    \;\;\;\;\varepsilon \cdot \left(x + x\right)\\
    
    \mathbf{else}:\\
    \;\;\;\;\varepsilon \cdot \varepsilon\\
    
    
    \end{array}
    \end{array}
    
    Derivation
    1. Split input into 2 regimes
    2. if (-.f64 (pow.f64 (+.f64 x eps) #s(literal 2 binary64)) (pow.f64 x #s(literal 2 binary64))) < 0.0

      1. Initial program 67.6%

        \[{\left(x + \varepsilon\right)}^{2} - {x}^{2} \]
      2. Add Preprocessing
      3. Taylor expanded in x around inf

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{2 \cdot \left(\varepsilon \cdot x\right)} \]
      4. Step-by-step derivation
        1. associate-*r*N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot \varepsilon\right) \cdot x} \]
        2. *-commutativeN/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{x \cdot \left(2 \cdot \varepsilon\right)} \]
        3. lower-*.f64N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{x \cdot \left(2 \cdot \varepsilon\right)} \]
        4. lower-*.f6498.7

          \[\leadsto x \cdot \color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot \varepsilon\right)} \]
      5. Applied rewrites98.7%

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{x \cdot \left(2 \cdot \varepsilon\right)} \]
      6. Step-by-step derivation
        1. Applied rewrites98.7%

          \[\leadsto \left(x + x\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\varepsilon} \]

        if 0.0 < (-.f64 (pow.f64 (+.f64 x eps) #s(literal 2 binary64)) (pow.f64 x #s(literal 2 binary64)))

        1. Initial program 97.8%

          \[{\left(x + \varepsilon\right)}^{2} - {x}^{2} \]
        2. Add Preprocessing
        3. Taylor expanded in x around 0

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\varepsilon}^{2}} \]
        4. Step-by-step derivation
          1. unpow2N/A

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\varepsilon \cdot \varepsilon} \]
          2. lower-*.f6493.3

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\varepsilon \cdot \varepsilon} \]
        5. Applied rewrites93.3%

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\varepsilon \cdot \varepsilon} \]
      7. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
      8. Final simplification96.6%

        \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;{\left(x + \varepsilon\right)}^{2} - {x}^{2} \leq 0:\\ \;\;\;\;\varepsilon \cdot \left(x + x\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\varepsilon \cdot \varepsilon\\ \end{array} \]
      9. Add Preprocessing

      Alternative 3: 100.0% accurate, 17.4× speedup?

      \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \varepsilon \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(x, 2, \varepsilon\right) \end{array} \]
      (FPCore (x eps) :precision binary64 (* eps (fma x 2.0 eps)))
      double code(double x, double eps) {
      	return eps * fma(x, 2.0, eps);
      }
      
      function code(x, eps)
      	return Float64(eps * fma(x, 2.0, eps))
      end
      
      code[x_, eps_] := N[(eps * N[(x * 2.0 + eps), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
      
      \begin{array}{l}
      
      \\
      \varepsilon \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(x, 2, \varepsilon\right)
      \end{array}
      
      Derivation
      1. Initial program 79.1%

        \[{\left(x + \varepsilon\right)}^{2} - {x}^{2} \]
      2. Add Preprocessing
      3. Taylor expanded in x around 0

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{2 \cdot \left(\varepsilon \cdot x\right) + {\varepsilon}^{2}} \]
      4. Step-by-step derivation
        1. associate-*r*N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot \varepsilon\right) \cdot x} + {\varepsilon}^{2} \]
        2. *-commutativeN/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{x \cdot \left(2 \cdot \varepsilon\right)} + {\varepsilon}^{2} \]
        3. *-rgt-identityN/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(x \cdot \left(2 \cdot \varepsilon\right)\right) \cdot 1} + {\varepsilon}^{2} \]
        4. *-inversesN/A

          \[\leadsto \left(x \cdot \left(2 \cdot \varepsilon\right)\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{\varepsilon}{\varepsilon}} + {\varepsilon}^{2} \]
        5. associate-/l*N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(x \cdot \left(2 \cdot \varepsilon\right)\right) \cdot \varepsilon}{\varepsilon}} + {\varepsilon}^{2} \]
        6. associate-*r*N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left(\left(x \cdot 2\right) \cdot \varepsilon\right)} \cdot \varepsilon}{\varepsilon} + {\varepsilon}^{2} \]
        7. *-commutativeN/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{\left(\color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot x\right)} \cdot \varepsilon\right) \cdot \varepsilon}{\varepsilon} + {\varepsilon}^{2} \]
        8. associate-*r*N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(\varepsilon \cdot \varepsilon\right)}}{\varepsilon} + {\varepsilon}^{2} \]
        9. unpow2N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{\left(2 \cdot x\right) \cdot \color{blue}{{\varepsilon}^{2}}}{\varepsilon} + {\varepsilon}^{2} \]
        10. associate-*l/N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{2 \cdot x}{\varepsilon} \cdot {\varepsilon}^{2}} + {\varepsilon}^{2} \]
        11. associate-*r/N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot \frac{x}{\varepsilon}\right)} \cdot {\varepsilon}^{2} + {\varepsilon}^{2} \]
        12. *-commutativeN/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\varepsilon}^{2} \cdot \left(2 \cdot \frac{x}{\varepsilon}\right)} + {\varepsilon}^{2} \]
        13. *-rgt-identityN/A

          \[\leadsto {\varepsilon}^{2} \cdot \left(2 \cdot \frac{x}{\varepsilon}\right) + \color{blue}{{\varepsilon}^{2} \cdot 1} \]
        14. distribute-lft-inN/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\varepsilon}^{2} \cdot \left(2 \cdot \frac{x}{\varepsilon} + 1\right)} \]
        15. +-commutativeN/A

          \[\leadsto {\varepsilon}^{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(1 + 2 \cdot \frac{x}{\varepsilon}\right)} \]
        16. unpow2N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\varepsilon \cdot \varepsilon\right)} \cdot \left(1 + 2 \cdot \frac{x}{\varepsilon}\right) \]
        17. associate-*l*N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\varepsilon \cdot \left(\varepsilon \cdot \left(1 + 2 \cdot \frac{x}{\varepsilon}\right)\right)} \]
        18. lower-*.f64N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\varepsilon \cdot \left(\varepsilon \cdot \left(1 + 2 \cdot \frac{x}{\varepsilon}\right)\right)} \]
        19. +-commutativeN/A

          \[\leadsto \varepsilon \cdot \left(\varepsilon \cdot \color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot \frac{x}{\varepsilon} + 1\right)}\right) \]
        20. distribute-rgt-inN/A

          \[\leadsto \varepsilon \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(2 \cdot \frac{x}{\varepsilon}\right) \cdot \varepsilon + 1 \cdot \varepsilon\right)} \]
      5. Applied rewrites100.0%

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\varepsilon \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(x, 2, \varepsilon\right)} \]
      6. Add Preprocessing

      Alternative 4: 72.9% accurate, 34.8× speedup?

      \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \varepsilon \cdot \varepsilon \end{array} \]
      (FPCore (x eps) :precision binary64 (* eps eps))
      double code(double x, double eps) {
      	return eps * eps;
      }
      
      real(8) function code(x, eps)
          real(8), intent (in) :: x
          real(8), intent (in) :: eps
          code = eps * eps
      end function
      
      public static double code(double x, double eps) {
      	return eps * eps;
      }
      
      def code(x, eps):
      	return eps * eps
      
      function code(x, eps)
      	return Float64(eps * eps)
      end
      
      function tmp = code(x, eps)
      	tmp = eps * eps;
      end
      
      code[x_, eps_] := N[(eps * eps), $MachinePrecision]
      
      \begin{array}{l}
      
      \\
      \varepsilon \cdot \varepsilon
      \end{array}
      
      Derivation
      1. Initial program 79.1%

        \[{\left(x + \varepsilon\right)}^{2} - {x}^{2} \]
      2. Add Preprocessing
      3. Taylor expanded in x around 0

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\varepsilon}^{2}} \]
      4. Step-by-step derivation
        1. unpow2N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\varepsilon \cdot \varepsilon} \]
        2. lower-*.f6476.5

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\varepsilon \cdot \varepsilon} \]
      5. Applied rewrites76.5%

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

      Reproduce

      ?
      herbie shell --seed 2024233 
      (FPCore (x eps)
        :name "ENA, Section 1.4, Exercise 4b, n=2"
        :precision binary64
        :pre (and (and (<= -1000000000.0 x) (<= x 1000000000.0)) (and (<= -1.0 eps) (<= eps 1.0)))
        (- (pow (+ x eps) 2.0) (pow x 2.0)))