expax (section 3.5)

Percentage Accurate: 52.7% → 100.0%
Time: 6.4s
Alternatives: 7
Speedup: 18.2×

Specification

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\[710 > a \cdot x\]
\[\begin{array}{l} \\ e^{a \cdot x} - 1 \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a x) :precision binary64 (- (exp (* a x)) 1.0))
double code(double a, double x) {
	return exp((a * x)) - 1.0;
}
real(8) function code(a, x)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    code = exp((a * x)) - 1.0d0
end function
public static double code(double a, double x) {
	return Math.exp((a * x)) - 1.0;
}
def code(a, x):
	return math.exp((a * x)) - 1.0
function code(a, x)
	return Float64(exp(Float64(a * x)) - 1.0)
end
function tmp = code(a, x)
	tmp = exp((a * x)) - 1.0;
end
code[a_, x_] := N[(N[Exp[N[(a * x), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - 1.0), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
e^{a \cdot x} - 1
\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 7 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: 52.7% accurate, 1.0× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ e^{a \cdot x} - 1 \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a x) :precision binary64 (- (exp (* a x)) 1.0))
double code(double a, double x) {
	return exp((a * x)) - 1.0;
}
real(8) function code(a, x)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    code = exp((a * x)) - 1.0d0
end function
public static double code(double a, double x) {
	return Math.exp((a * x)) - 1.0;
}
def code(a, x):
	return math.exp((a * x)) - 1.0
function code(a, x)
	return Float64(exp(Float64(a * x)) - 1.0)
end
function tmp = code(a, x)
	tmp = exp((a * x)) - 1.0;
end
code[a_, x_] := N[(N[Exp[N[(a * x), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - 1.0), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
e^{a \cdot x} - 1
\end{array}

Alternative 1: 100.0% accurate, 1.0× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \mathsf{expm1}\left(a \cdot x\right) \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a x) :precision binary64 (expm1 (* a x)))
double code(double a, double x) {
	return expm1((a * x));
}
public static double code(double a, double x) {
	return Math.expm1((a * x));
}
def code(a, x):
	return math.expm1((a * x))
function code(a, x)
	return expm1(Float64(a * x))
end
code[a_, x_] := N[(Exp[N[(a * x), $MachinePrecision]] - 1), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\mathsf{expm1}\left(a \cdot x\right)
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 57.4%

    \[e^{a \cdot x} - 1 \]
  2. Add Preprocessing
  3. Step-by-step derivation
    1. lift--.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{e^{a \cdot x} - 1} \]
    2. lift-exp.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{e^{a \cdot x}} - 1 \]
    3. lower-expm1.f64100.0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(a \cdot x\right)} \]
    4. lift-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{expm1}\left(\color{blue}{a \cdot x}\right) \]
    5. *-commutativeN/A

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{expm1}\left(\color{blue}{x \cdot a}\right) \]
    6. lower-*.f64100.0

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{expm1}\left(\color{blue}{x \cdot a}\right) \]
  4. Applied rewrites100.0%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(x \cdot a\right)} \]
  5. Final simplification100.0%

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

Alternative 2: 67.8% accurate, 2.5× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;x \leq 4.2 \cdot 10^{+206}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(x, a, \left(\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.16666666666666666 \cdot x, a, 0.5\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot x\right)\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot x\right) \cdot 0.5\right) \cdot x - 1\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a x)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= x 4.2e+206)
   (fma x a (* (* (* (fma (* 0.16666666666666666 x) a 0.5) a) x) (* a x)))
   (- (* (* (* (* a a) x) 0.5) x) 1.0)))
double code(double a, double x) {
	double tmp;
	if (x <= 4.2e+206) {
		tmp = fma(x, a, (((fma((0.16666666666666666 * x), a, 0.5) * a) * x) * (a * x)));
	} else {
		tmp = ((((a * a) * x) * 0.5) * x) - 1.0;
	}
	return tmp;
}
function code(a, x)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (x <= 4.2e+206)
		tmp = fma(x, a, Float64(Float64(Float64(fma(Float64(0.16666666666666666 * x), a, 0.5) * a) * x) * Float64(a * x)));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(Float64(Float64(Float64(a * a) * x) * 0.5) * x) - 1.0);
	end
	return tmp
end
code[a_, x_] := If[LessEqual[x, 4.2e+206], N[(x * a + N[(N[(N[(N[(N[(0.16666666666666666 * x), $MachinePrecision] * a + 0.5), $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision] * x), $MachinePrecision] * N[(a * x), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(N[(N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * x), $MachinePrecision] * 0.5), $MachinePrecision] * x), $MachinePrecision] - 1.0), $MachinePrecision]]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\begin{array}{l}
\mathbf{if}\;x \leq 4.2 \cdot 10^{+206}:\\
\;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(x, a, \left(\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.16666666666666666 \cdot x, a, 0.5\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot x\right)\right)\\

\mathbf{else}:\\
\;\;\;\;\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot x\right) \cdot 0.5\right) \cdot x - 1\\


\end{array}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Split input into 2 regimes
  2. if x < 4.19999999999999974e206

    1. Initial program 55.5%

      \[e^{a \cdot x} - 1 \]
    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. Applied rewrites69.4%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.16666666666666666 \cdot x, a, 0.5\right) \cdot a, x, 1\right) \cdot \left(x \cdot a\right)} \]
    5. Step-by-step derivation
      1. Applied rewrites69.4%

        \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(x, \color{blue}{a}, \left(\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.16666666666666666 \cdot x, a, 0.5\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(x \cdot a\right)\right) \]

      if 4.19999999999999974e206 < x

      1. Initial program 100.0%

        \[e^{a \cdot x} - 1 \]
      2. Add Preprocessing
      3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{1} - 1 \]
      4. Step-by-step derivation
        1. Applied rewrites3.1%

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{1} - 1 \]
        2. Taylor expanded in a around 0

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(1 + a \cdot \left(x + \frac{1}{2} \cdot \left(a \cdot {x}^{2}\right)\right)\right)} - 1 \]
        3. Step-by-step derivation
          1. distribute-rgt-inN/A

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

            \[\leadsto \left(1 + \left(\color{blue}{a \cdot x} + \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \left(a \cdot {x}^{2}\right)\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]
          3. associate-+r+N/A

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

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

            \[\leadsto \left(\left(1 + a \cdot x\right) + \frac{1}{2} \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left({x}^{2} \cdot a\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]
          6. associate-*r*N/A

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

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

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

            \[\leadsto \left(\left(1 + a \cdot x\right) + \frac{1}{2} \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(x \cdot x\right)}\right)\right) - 1 \]
          10. associate-*r*N/A

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

            \[\leadsto \left(\left(1 + a \cdot x\right) + \color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot x\right)\right) \cdot x}\right) - 1 \]
          12. associate-+r+N/A

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

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

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

            \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{\left(a + \frac{1}{2} \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot x\right)\right) \cdot x} + 1\right) - 1 \]
          16. lower-fma.f64N/A

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a + \frac{1}{2} \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot x\right), x, 1\right)} - 1 \]
        4. Applied rewrites0.8%

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, x \cdot a, 1\right) \cdot a, x, 1\right)} - 1 \]
        5. Taylor expanded in a around inf

          \[\leadsto \frac{1}{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\left({a}^{2} \cdot {x}^{2}\right)} - 1 \]
        6. Step-by-step derivation
          1. Applied rewrites18.7%

            \[\leadsto \left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot x\right) \cdot 0.5\right) \cdot \color{blue}{x} - 1 \]
        7. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
        8. Final simplification67.2%

          \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;x \leq 4.2 \cdot 10^{+206}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(x, a, \left(\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.16666666666666666 \cdot x, a, 0.5\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot x\right)\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot x\right) \cdot 0.5\right) \cdot x - 1\\ \end{array} \]
        9. Add Preprocessing

        Alternative 3: 71.8% accurate, 2.7× speedup?

        \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{1}{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, x, \frac{1}{a}\right)}{x}} \end{array} \]
        (FPCore (a x) :precision binary64 (/ 1.0 (/ (fma -0.5 x (/ 1.0 a)) x)))
        double code(double a, double x) {
        	return 1.0 / (fma(-0.5, x, (1.0 / a)) / x);
        }
        
        function code(a, x)
        	return Float64(1.0 / Float64(fma(-0.5, x, Float64(1.0 / a)) / x))
        end
        
        code[a_, x_] := N[(1.0 / N[(N[(-0.5 * x + N[(1.0 / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / x), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
        
        \begin{array}{l}
        
        \\
        \frac{1}{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, x, \frac{1}{a}\right)}{x}}
        \end{array}
        
        Derivation
        1. Initial program 57.4%

          \[e^{a \cdot x} - 1 \]
        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. +-commutativeN/A

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

            \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{x \cdot a} + 1\right) - 1 \]
          3. lower-fma.f6424.3

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(x, a, 1\right)} - 1 \]
        5. Applied rewrites24.3%

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(x, a, 1\right)} - 1 \]
        6. Step-by-step derivation
          1. Applied rewrites24.3%

            \[\leadsto \left(a \cdot x + \color{blue}{1}\right) - 1 \]
          2. Step-by-step derivation
            1. lift--.f64N/A

              \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot x + 1\right) - 1} \]
            2. flip3--N/A

              \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{{\left(a \cdot x + 1\right)}^{3} - {1}^{3}}{\left(a \cdot x + 1\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot x + 1\right) + \left(1 \cdot 1 + \left(a \cdot x + 1\right) \cdot 1\right)}} \]
            3. clear-numN/A

              \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{\frac{\left(a \cdot x + 1\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot x + 1\right) + \left(1 \cdot 1 + \left(a \cdot x + 1\right) \cdot 1\right)}{{\left(a \cdot x + 1\right)}^{3} - {1}^{3}}}} \]
            4. lower-/.f64N/A

              \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{\frac{\left(a \cdot x + 1\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot x + 1\right) + \left(1 \cdot 1 + \left(a \cdot x + 1\right) \cdot 1\right)}{{\left(a \cdot x + 1\right)}^{3} - {1}^{3}}}} \]
            5. clear-numN/A

              \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{\frac{{\left(a \cdot x + 1\right)}^{3} - {1}^{3}}{\left(a \cdot x + 1\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot x + 1\right) + \left(1 \cdot 1 + \left(a \cdot x + 1\right) \cdot 1\right)}}}} \]
            6. flip3--N/A

              \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{1}{\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot x + 1\right) - 1}}} \]
          3. Applied rewrites24.3%

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{\frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(x, a, 1\right) - 1}}} \]
          4. Taylor expanded in x around 0

            \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-1}{2} \cdot x + \frac{1}{a}}{x}}} \]
          5. Step-by-step derivation
            1. lower-/.f64N/A

              \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-1}{2} \cdot x + \frac{1}{a}}{x}}} \]
            2. lower-fma.f64N/A

              \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{-1}{2}, x, \frac{1}{a}\right)}}{x}} \]
            3. lower-/.f6471.2

              \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, x, \color{blue}{\frac{1}{a}}\right)}{x}} \]
          6. Applied rewrites71.2%

            \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, x, \frac{1}{a}\right)}{x}}} \]
          7. Add Preprocessing

          Alternative 4: 67.8% accurate, 2.8× speedup?

          \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;x \leq 4.2 \cdot 10^{+206}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.16666666666666666 \cdot x, a, 0.5\right) \cdot a, x, 1\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot x\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot x\right) \cdot 0.5\right) \cdot x - 1\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]
          (FPCore (a x)
           :precision binary64
           (if (<= x 4.2e+206)
             (* (fma (* (fma (* 0.16666666666666666 x) a 0.5) a) x 1.0) (* a x))
             (- (* (* (* (* a a) x) 0.5) x) 1.0)))
          double code(double a, double x) {
          	double tmp;
          	if (x <= 4.2e+206) {
          		tmp = fma((fma((0.16666666666666666 * x), a, 0.5) * a), x, 1.0) * (a * x);
          	} else {
          		tmp = ((((a * a) * x) * 0.5) * x) - 1.0;
          	}
          	return tmp;
          }
          
          function code(a, x)
          	tmp = 0.0
          	if (x <= 4.2e+206)
          		tmp = Float64(fma(Float64(fma(Float64(0.16666666666666666 * x), a, 0.5) * a), x, 1.0) * Float64(a * x));
          	else
          		tmp = Float64(Float64(Float64(Float64(Float64(a * a) * x) * 0.5) * x) - 1.0);
          	end
          	return tmp
          end
          
          code[a_, x_] := If[LessEqual[x, 4.2e+206], N[(N[(N[(N[(N[(0.16666666666666666 * x), $MachinePrecision] * a + 0.5), $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision] * x + 1.0), $MachinePrecision] * N[(a * x), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(N[(N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * x), $MachinePrecision] * 0.5), $MachinePrecision] * x), $MachinePrecision] - 1.0), $MachinePrecision]]
          
          \begin{array}{l}
          
          \\
          \begin{array}{l}
          \mathbf{if}\;x \leq 4.2 \cdot 10^{+206}:\\
          \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.16666666666666666 \cdot x, a, 0.5\right) \cdot a, x, 1\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot x\right)\\
          
          \mathbf{else}:\\
          \;\;\;\;\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot x\right) \cdot 0.5\right) \cdot x - 1\\
          
          
          \end{array}
          \end{array}
          
          Derivation
          1. Split input into 2 regimes
          2. if x < 4.19999999999999974e206

            1. Initial program 55.5%

              \[e^{a \cdot x} - 1 \]
            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. Applied rewrites69.4%

              \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.16666666666666666 \cdot x, a, 0.5\right) \cdot a, x, 1\right) \cdot \left(x \cdot a\right)} \]

            if 4.19999999999999974e206 < x

            1. Initial program 100.0%

              \[e^{a \cdot x} - 1 \]
            2. Add Preprocessing
            3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

              \[\leadsto \color{blue}{1} - 1 \]
            4. Step-by-step derivation
              1. Applied rewrites3.1%

                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{1} - 1 \]
              2. Taylor expanded in a around 0

                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(1 + a \cdot \left(x + \frac{1}{2} \cdot \left(a \cdot {x}^{2}\right)\right)\right)} - 1 \]
              3. Step-by-step derivation
                1. distribute-rgt-inN/A

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

                  \[\leadsto \left(1 + \left(\color{blue}{a \cdot x} + \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \left(a \cdot {x}^{2}\right)\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]
                3. associate-+r+N/A

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

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

                  \[\leadsto \left(\left(1 + a \cdot x\right) + \frac{1}{2} \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left({x}^{2} \cdot a\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]
                6. associate-*r*N/A

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

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

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

                  \[\leadsto \left(\left(1 + a \cdot x\right) + \frac{1}{2} \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(x \cdot x\right)}\right)\right) - 1 \]
                10. associate-*r*N/A

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

                  \[\leadsto \left(\left(1 + a \cdot x\right) + \color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot x\right)\right) \cdot x}\right) - 1 \]
                12. associate-+r+N/A

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

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

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

                  \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{\left(a + \frac{1}{2} \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot x\right)\right) \cdot x} + 1\right) - 1 \]
                16. lower-fma.f64N/A

                  \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a + \frac{1}{2} \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot x\right), x, 1\right)} - 1 \]
              4. Applied rewrites0.8%

                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, x \cdot a, 1\right) \cdot a, x, 1\right)} - 1 \]
              5. Taylor expanded in a around inf

                \[\leadsto \frac{1}{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\left({a}^{2} \cdot {x}^{2}\right)} - 1 \]
              6. Step-by-step derivation
                1. Applied rewrites18.7%

                  \[\leadsto \left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot x\right) \cdot 0.5\right) \cdot \color{blue}{x} - 1 \]
              7. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
              8. Final simplification67.2%

                \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;x \leq 4.2 \cdot 10^{+206}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.16666666666666666 \cdot x, a, 0.5\right) \cdot a, x, 1\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot x\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot x\right) \cdot 0.5\right) \cdot x - 1\\ \end{array} \]
              9. Add Preprocessing

              Alternative 5: 67.8% accurate, 2.8× speedup?

              \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;x \leq 4.2 \cdot 10^{+206}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.16666666666666666 \cdot x, a, 0.5\right) \cdot a, x, 1\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot x\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot x\right) \cdot 0.5\right) \cdot x - 1\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]
              (FPCore (a x)
               :precision binary64
               (if (<= x 4.2e+206)
                 (* (* (fma (* (fma (* 0.16666666666666666 x) a 0.5) a) x 1.0) a) x)
                 (- (* (* (* (* a a) x) 0.5) x) 1.0)))
              double code(double a, double x) {
              	double tmp;
              	if (x <= 4.2e+206) {
              		tmp = (fma((fma((0.16666666666666666 * x), a, 0.5) * a), x, 1.0) * a) * x;
              	} else {
              		tmp = ((((a * a) * x) * 0.5) * x) - 1.0;
              	}
              	return tmp;
              }
              
              function code(a, x)
              	tmp = 0.0
              	if (x <= 4.2e+206)
              		tmp = Float64(Float64(fma(Float64(fma(Float64(0.16666666666666666 * x), a, 0.5) * a), x, 1.0) * a) * x);
              	else
              		tmp = Float64(Float64(Float64(Float64(Float64(a * a) * x) * 0.5) * x) - 1.0);
              	end
              	return tmp
              end
              
              code[a_, x_] := If[LessEqual[x, 4.2e+206], N[(N[(N[(N[(N[(N[(0.16666666666666666 * x), $MachinePrecision] * a + 0.5), $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision] * x + 1.0), $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision] * x), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(N[(N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * x), $MachinePrecision] * 0.5), $MachinePrecision] * x), $MachinePrecision] - 1.0), $MachinePrecision]]
              
              \begin{array}{l}
              
              \\
              \begin{array}{l}
              \mathbf{if}\;x \leq 4.2 \cdot 10^{+206}:\\
              \;\;\;\;\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.16666666666666666 \cdot x, a, 0.5\right) \cdot a, x, 1\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot x\\
              
              \mathbf{else}:\\
              \;\;\;\;\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot x\right) \cdot 0.5\right) \cdot x - 1\\
              
              
              \end{array}
              \end{array}
              
              Derivation
              1. Split input into 2 regimes
              2. if x < 4.19999999999999974e206

                1. Initial program 55.5%

                  \[e^{a \cdot x} - 1 \]
                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. Applied rewrites69.4%

                  \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.16666666666666666 \cdot x, a, 0.5\right) \cdot a, x, 1\right) \cdot \left(x \cdot a\right)} \]
                5. Step-by-step derivation
                  1. Applied rewrites69.4%

                    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.16666666666666666 \cdot x, a, 0.5\right) \cdot a, x, 1\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot x} \]

                  if 4.19999999999999974e206 < x

                  1. Initial program 100.0%

                    \[e^{a \cdot x} - 1 \]
                  2. Add Preprocessing
                  3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

                    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{1} - 1 \]
                  4. Step-by-step derivation
                    1. Applied rewrites3.1%

                      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{1} - 1 \]
                    2. Taylor expanded in a around 0

                      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(1 + a \cdot \left(x + \frac{1}{2} \cdot \left(a \cdot {x}^{2}\right)\right)\right)} - 1 \]
                    3. Step-by-step derivation
                      1. distribute-rgt-inN/A

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

                        \[\leadsto \left(1 + \left(\color{blue}{a \cdot x} + \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \left(a \cdot {x}^{2}\right)\right) \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]
                      3. associate-+r+N/A

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

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

                        \[\leadsto \left(\left(1 + a \cdot x\right) + \frac{1}{2} \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left({x}^{2} \cdot a\right)} \cdot a\right)\right) - 1 \]
                      6. associate-*r*N/A

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

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

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

                        \[\leadsto \left(\left(1 + a \cdot x\right) + \frac{1}{2} \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(x \cdot x\right)}\right)\right) - 1 \]
                      10. associate-*r*N/A

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

                        \[\leadsto \left(\left(1 + a \cdot x\right) + \color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot x\right)\right) \cdot x}\right) - 1 \]
                      12. associate-+r+N/A

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

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

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

                        \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{\left(a + \frac{1}{2} \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot x\right)\right) \cdot x} + 1\right) - 1 \]
                      16. lower-fma.f64N/A

                        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a + \frac{1}{2} \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot x\right), x, 1\right)} - 1 \]
                    4. Applied rewrites0.8%

                      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, x \cdot a, 1\right) \cdot a, x, 1\right)} - 1 \]
                    5. Taylor expanded in a around inf

                      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\left({a}^{2} \cdot {x}^{2}\right)} - 1 \]
                    6. Step-by-step derivation
                      1. Applied rewrites18.7%

                        \[\leadsto \left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot x\right) \cdot 0.5\right) \cdot \color{blue}{x} - 1 \]
                    7. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
                    8. Add Preprocessing

                    Alternative 6: 67.5% accurate, 18.2× speedup?

                    \[\begin{array}{l} \\ a \cdot x \end{array} \]
                    (FPCore (a x) :precision binary64 (* a x))
                    double code(double a, double x) {
                    	return a * x;
                    }
                    
                    real(8) function code(a, x)
                        real(8), intent (in) :: a
                        real(8), intent (in) :: x
                        code = a * x
                    end function
                    
                    public static double code(double a, double x) {
                    	return a * x;
                    }
                    
                    def code(a, x):
                    	return a * x
                    
                    function code(a, x)
                    	return Float64(a * x)
                    end
                    
                    function tmp = code(a, x)
                    	tmp = a * x;
                    end
                    
                    code[a_, x_] := N[(a * x), $MachinePrecision]
                    
                    \begin{array}{l}
                    
                    \\
                    a \cdot x
                    \end{array}
                    
                    Derivation
                    1. Initial program 57.4%

                      \[e^{a \cdot x} - 1 \]
                    2. Add Preprocessing
                    3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

                      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{a \cdot x} \]
                    4. Step-by-step derivation
                      1. *-commutativeN/A

                        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{x \cdot a} \]
                      2. lower-*.f6466.6

                        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{x \cdot a} \]
                    5. Applied rewrites66.6%

                      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{x \cdot a} \]
                    6. Final simplification66.6%

                      \[\leadsto a \cdot x \]
                    7. Add Preprocessing

                    Alternative 7: 18.9% accurate, 27.3× speedup?

                    \[\begin{array}{l} \\ 1 - 1 \end{array} \]
                    (FPCore (a x) :precision binary64 (- 1.0 1.0))
                    double code(double a, double x) {
                    	return 1.0 - 1.0;
                    }
                    
                    real(8) function code(a, x)
                        real(8), intent (in) :: a
                        real(8), intent (in) :: x
                        code = 1.0d0 - 1.0d0
                    end function
                    
                    public static double code(double a, double x) {
                    	return 1.0 - 1.0;
                    }
                    
                    def code(a, x):
                    	return 1.0 - 1.0
                    
                    function code(a, x)
                    	return Float64(1.0 - 1.0)
                    end
                    
                    function tmp = code(a, x)
                    	tmp = 1.0 - 1.0;
                    end
                    
                    code[a_, x_] := N[(1.0 - 1.0), $MachinePrecision]
                    
                    \begin{array}{l}
                    
                    \\
                    1 - 1
                    \end{array}
                    
                    Derivation
                    1. Initial program 57.4%

                      \[e^{a \cdot x} - 1 \]
                    2. Add Preprocessing
                    3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

                      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{1} - 1 \]
                    4. Step-by-step derivation
                      1. Applied rewrites22.8%

                        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{1} - 1 \]
                      2. Add Preprocessing

                      Developer Target 1: 100.0% accurate, 1.0× speedup?

                      \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \mathsf{expm1}\left(a \cdot x\right) \end{array} \]
                      (FPCore (a x) :precision binary64 (expm1 (* a x)))
                      double code(double a, double x) {
                      	return expm1((a * x));
                      }
                      
                      public static double code(double a, double x) {
                      	return Math.expm1((a * x));
                      }
                      
                      def code(a, x):
                      	return math.expm1((a * x))
                      
                      function code(a, x)
                      	return expm1(Float64(a * x))
                      end
                      
                      code[a_, x_] := N[(Exp[N[(a * x), $MachinePrecision]] - 1), $MachinePrecision]
                      
                      \begin{array}{l}
                      
                      \\
                      \mathsf{expm1}\left(a \cdot x\right)
                      \end{array}
                      

                      Reproduce

                      ?
                      herbie shell --seed 2024270 
                      (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))