symmetry log of sum of exp

Percentage Accurate: 53.7% → 98.6%

Time: 10.5s

Alternatives: 12

Speedup: 1.0×

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  1. a = -8.766866392644566e+238
  2. b = 4.946896946879596e+211

Specification

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \end{array} \]

FPCore

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

C

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

Fortran

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

Java

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

Python

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

Julia

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

MATLAB

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

Wolfram

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

Initial Program: 53.7% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \end{array} \]

FPCore

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

C

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

Fortran

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

Java

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

Python

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

Julia

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

MATLAB

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

Wolfram

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

Alternative 1: 98.6% accurate, 0.7× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;e^{a} \leq 0:\\ \;\;\;\;{\left(\frac{1 + e^{a}}{b}\right)}^{-1}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (exp a) 0.0)
   (pow (/ (+ 1.0 (exp a)) b) -1.0)
   (log (+ (exp a) (exp b)))))

C

assert(a < b);
double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (exp(a) <= 0.0) {
		tmp = pow(((1.0 + exp(a)) / b), -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = log((exp(a) + exp(b)));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Fortran

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
    real(8) :: tmp
    if (exp(a) <= 0.0d0) then
        tmp = ((1.0d0 + exp(a)) / b) ** (-1.0d0)
    else
        tmp = log((exp(a) + exp(b)))
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

assert a < b;
public static double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (Math.exp(a) <= 0.0) {
		tmp = Math.pow(((1.0 + Math.exp(a)) / b), -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = Math.log((Math.exp(a) + Math.exp(b)));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

[a, b] = sort([a, b])
def code(a, b):
	tmp = 0
	if math.exp(a) <= 0.0:
		tmp = math.pow(((1.0 + math.exp(a)) / b), -1.0)
	else:
		tmp = math.log((math.exp(a) + math.exp(b)))
	return tmp

Julia

a, b = sort([a, b])
function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (exp(a) <= 0.0)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(1.0 + exp(a)) / b) ^ -1.0;
	else
		tmp = log(Float64(exp(a) + exp(b)));
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

a, b = num2cell(sort([a, b])){:}
function tmp_2 = code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (exp(a) <= 0.0)
		tmp = ((1.0 + exp(a)) / b) ^ -1.0;
	else
		tmp = log((exp(a) + exp(b)));
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision], 0.0], N[Power[N[(N[(1.0 + N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / b), $MachinePrecision], -1.0], $MachinePrecision], N[Log[N[(N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision] + N[Exp[b], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (exp.f64 a) < 0.0

   1. Initial program 9.1%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative N/A

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

      2. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

      3. associate-*r/ N/A

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

      4. lower-+.f64 N/A

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

      5. associate-*r/ N/A

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

      6. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

      7. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

      8. +-commutative N/A

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

      9. lower-+.f64 N/A

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

      10. lower-exp.f64 N/A

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

      11. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

      12. lower-exp.f64 98.4

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 98.4%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{2} \cdot b + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

   8. Applied rewrites 18.5%

      \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot b + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]
   9. Step-by-step derivation

   10. Applied rewrites 18.5%

       \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right) + 0.5 \cdot b}}} \]

   11. Taylor expanded in b around inf

       \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{1 + e^{a}}{\color{blue}{b}}} \]
   12. Step-by-step derivation

   13. Applied rewrites 98.1%

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

   if 0.0 < (exp.f64 a)

   1. Initial program 69.8%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 76.4%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;e^{a} \leq 0:\\ \;\;\;\;{\left(\frac{1 + e^{a}}{b}\right)}^{-1}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right)\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 2: 98.2% accurate, 0.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;e^{a} \leq 0:\\ \;\;\;\;{\left(\frac{1 + e^{a}}{b}\right)}^{-1}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\log \left(e^{a} + \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.16666666666666666, b, 0.5\right), b, 1\right), b, 1\right)\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (exp a) 0.0)
   (pow (/ (+ 1.0 (exp a)) b) -1.0)
   (log (+ (exp a) (fma (fma (fma 0.16666666666666666 b 0.5) b 1.0) b 1.0)))))

C

assert(a < b);
double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (exp(a) <= 0.0) {
		tmp = pow(((1.0 + exp(a)) / b), -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = log((exp(a) + fma(fma(fma(0.16666666666666666, b, 0.5), b, 1.0), b, 1.0)));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

a, b = sort([a, b])
function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (exp(a) <= 0.0)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(1.0 + exp(a)) / b) ^ -1.0;
	else
		tmp = log(Float64(exp(a) + fma(fma(fma(0.16666666666666666, b, 0.5), b, 1.0), b, 1.0)));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision], 0.0], N[Power[N[(N[(1.0 + N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / b), $MachinePrecision], -1.0], $MachinePrecision], N[Log[N[(N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision] + N[(N[(N[(0.16666666666666666 * b + 0.5), $MachinePrecision] * b + 1.0), $MachinePrecision] * b + 1.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (exp.f64 a) < 0.0

   1. Initial program 9.1%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative N/A

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

      2. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

      3. associate-*r/ N/A

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

      4. lower-+.f64 N/A

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

      5. associate-*r/ N/A

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

      6. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

      7. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

      8. +-commutative N/A

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

      9. lower-+.f64 N/A

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

      10. lower-exp.f64 N/A

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

      11. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

      12. lower-exp.f64 98.4

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 98.4%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{2} \cdot b + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

   8. Applied rewrites 18.5%

      \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot b + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]
   9. Step-by-step derivation

   10. Applied rewrites 18.5%

       \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right) + 0.5 \cdot b}}} \]

   11. Taylor expanded in b around inf

       \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{1 + e^{a}}{\color{blue}{b}}} \]
   12. Step-by-step derivation

   13. Applied rewrites 98.1%

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

   if 0.0 < (exp.f64 a)

   1. Initial program 69.8%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

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

      1. +-commutative N/A

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

      2. *-commutative N/A

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

      3. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      4. +-commutative N/A

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

      5. *-commutative N/A

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

      6. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      7. +-commutative N/A

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

      8. lower-fma.f64 65.8

         \[\leadsto \log \left(e^{a} + \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(0.16666666666666666, b, 0.5\right)}, b, 1\right), b, 1\right)\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 65.8%

      \[\leadsto \log \left(e^{a} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.16666666666666666, b, 0.5\right), b, 1\right), b, 1\right)}\right) \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 73.4%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;e^{a} \leq 0:\\ \;\;\;\;{\left(\frac{1 + e^{a}}{b}\right)}^{-1}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\log \left(e^{a} + \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.16666666666666666, b, 0.5\right), b, 1\right), b, 1\right)\right)\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 3: 98.1% accurate, 0.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;e^{a} \leq 0:\\ \;\;\;\;{\left(\frac{1 + e^{a}}{b}\right)}^{-1}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\log \left(e^{a} + \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, b, 1\right), b, 1\right)\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (exp a) 0.0)
   (pow (/ (+ 1.0 (exp a)) b) -1.0)
   (log (+ (exp a) (fma (fma 0.5 b 1.0) b 1.0)))))

C

assert(a < b);
double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (exp(a) <= 0.0) {
		tmp = pow(((1.0 + exp(a)) / b), -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = log((exp(a) + fma(fma(0.5, b, 1.0), b, 1.0)));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

a, b = sort([a, b])
function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (exp(a) <= 0.0)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(1.0 + exp(a)) / b) ^ -1.0;
	else
		tmp = log(Float64(exp(a) + fma(fma(0.5, b, 1.0), b, 1.0)));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision], 0.0], N[Power[N[(N[(1.0 + N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / b), $MachinePrecision], -1.0], $MachinePrecision], N[Log[N[(N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision] + N[(N[(0.5 * b + 1.0), $MachinePrecision] * b + 1.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (exp.f64 a) < 0.0

   1. Initial program 9.1%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative N/A

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

      2. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

      3. associate-*r/ N/A

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

      4. lower-+.f64 N/A

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

      5. associate-*r/ N/A

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

      6. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

      7. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

      8. +-commutative N/A

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

      9. lower-+.f64 N/A

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

      10. lower-exp.f64 N/A

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

      11. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

      12. lower-exp.f64 98.4

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 98.4%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{2} \cdot b + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

   8. Applied rewrites 18.5%

      \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot b + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]
   9. Step-by-step derivation

   10. Applied rewrites 18.5%

       \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right) + 0.5 \cdot b}}} \]

   11. Taylor expanded in b around inf

       \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{1 + e^{a}}{\color{blue}{b}}} \]
   12. Step-by-step derivation

   13. Applied rewrites 98.1%

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

   if 0.0 < (exp.f64 a)

   1. Initial program 69.8%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

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

      1. +-commutative N/A

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

      2. *-commutative N/A

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

      3. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      4. +-commutative N/A

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

      5. lower-fma.f64 66.6

         \[\leadsto \log \left(e^{a} + \mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, b, 1\right)}, b, 1\right)\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 66.6%

      \[\leadsto \log \left(e^{a} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, b, 1\right), b, 1\right)}\right) \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 74.0%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;e^{a} \leq 0:\\ \;\;\;\;{\left(\frac{1 + e^{a}}{b}\right)}^{-1}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\log \left(e^{a} + \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, b, 1\right), b, 1\right)\right)\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 4: 98.2% accurate, 0.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;e^{a} \leq 0:\\ \;\;\;\;{\left(\frac{1 + e^{a}}{b}\right)}^{-1}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;0.5 \cdot b + \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (exp a) 0.0)
   (pow (/ (+ 1.0 (exp a)) b) -1.0)
   (+ (* 0.5 b) (log1p (exp a)))))

C

assert(a < b);
double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (exp(a) <= 0.0) {
		tmp = pow(((1.0 + exp(a)) / b), -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = (0.5 * b) + log1p(exp(a));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Java

assert a < b;
public static double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (Math.exp(a) <= 0.0) {
		tmp = Math.pow(((1.0 + Math.exp(a)) / b), -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = (0.5 * b) + Math.log1p(Math.exp(a));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

[a, b] = sort([a, b])
def code(a, b):
	tmp = 0
	if math.exp(a) <= 0.0:
		tmp = math.pow(((1.0 + math.exp(a)) / b), -1.0)
	else:
		tmp = (0.5 * b) + math.log1p(math.exp(a))
	return tmp

Julia

a, b = sort([a, b])
function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (exp(a) <= 0.0)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(1.0 + exp(a)) / b) ^ -1.0;
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(0.5 * b) + log1p(exp(a)));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision], 0.0], N[Power[N[(N[(1.0 + N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / b), $MachinePrecision], -1.0], $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(0.5 * b), $MachinePrecision] + N[Log[1 + N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (exp.f64 a) < 0.0

   1. Initial program 9.1%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative N/A

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

      2. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

      3. associate-*r/ N/A

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

      4. lower-+.f64 N/A

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

      5. associate-*r/ N/A

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

      6. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

      7. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

      8. +-commutative N/A

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

      9. lower-+.f64 N/A

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

      10. lower-exp.f64 N/A

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

      11. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

      12. lower-exp.f64 98.4

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 98.4%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{2} \cdot b + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

   8. Applied rewrites 18.5%

      \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot b + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]
   9. Step-by-step derivation

   10. Applied rewrites 18.5%

       \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right) + 0.5 \cdot b}}} \]

   11. Taylor expanded in b around inf

       \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{1 + e^{a}}{\color{blue}{b}}} \]
   12. Step-by-step derivation

   13. Applied rewrites 98.1%

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

   if 0.0 < (exp.f64 a)

   1. Initial program 69.8%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative N/A

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

      2. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

      3. associate-*r/ N/A

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

      4. lower-+.f64 N/A

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

      5. associate-*r/ N/A

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

      6. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

      7. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

      8. +-commutative N/A

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

      9. lower-+.f64 N/A

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

      10. lower-exp.f64 N/A

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

      11. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

      12. lower-exp.f64 66.7

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 66.7%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{2} \cdot b + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

   8. Applied rewrites 66.7%

      \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot b + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 74.1%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;e^{a} \leq 0:\\ \;\;\;\;{\left(\frac{1 + e^{a}}{b}\right)}^{-1}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;0.5 \cdot b + \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 5: 97.9% accurate, 0.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;e^{a} \leq 0:\\ \;\;\;\;{\left(\frac{1 + e^{a}}{b}\right)}^{-1}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\log \left(e^{a} + \left(1 + b\right)\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (exp a) 0.0)
   (pow (/ (+ 1.0 (exp a)) b) -1.0)
   (log (+ (exp a) (+ 1.0 b)))))

C

assert(a < b);
double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (exp(a) <= 0.0) {
		tmp = pow(((1.0 + exp(a)) / b), -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = log((exp(a) + (1.0 + b)));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Fortran

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
    real(8) :: tmp
    if (exp(a) <= 0.0d0) then
        tmp = ((1.0d0 + exp(a)) / b) ** (-1.0d0)
    else
        tmp = log((exp(a) + (1.0d0 + b)))
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

assert a < b;
public static double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (Math.exp(a) <= 0.0) {
		tmp = Math.pow(((1.0 + Math.exp(a)) / b), -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = Math.log((Math.exp(a) + (1.0 + b)));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

[a, b] = sort([a, b])
def code(a, b):
	tmp = 0
	if math.exp(a) <= 0.0:
		tmp = math.pow(((1.0 + math.exp(a)) / b), -1.0)
	else:
		tmp = math.log((math.exp(a) + (1.0 + b)))
	return tmp

Julia

a, b = sort([a, b])
function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (exp(a) <= 0.0)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(1.0 + exp(a)) / b) ^ -1.0;
	else
		tmp = log(Float64(exp(a) + Float64(1.0 + b)));
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

a, b = num2cell(sort([a, b])){:}
function tmp_2 = code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (exp(a) <= 0.0)
		tmp = ((1.0 + exp(a)) / b) ^ -1.0;
	else
		tmp = log((exp(a) + (1.0 + b)));
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision], 0.0], N[Power[N[(N[(1.0 + N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / b), $MachinePrecision], -1.0], $MachinePrecision], N[Log[N[(N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision] + N[(1.0 + b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (exp.f64 a) < 0.0

   1. Initial program 9.1%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative N/A

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

      2. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

      3. associate-*r/ N/A

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

      4. lower-+.f64 N/A

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

      5. associate-*r/ N/A

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

      6. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

      7. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

      8. +-commutative N/A

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

      9. lower-+.f64 N/A

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

      10. lower-exp.f64 N/A

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

      11. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

      12. lower-exp.f64 98.4

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 98.4%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{2} \cdot b + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

   8. Applied rewrites 18.5%

      \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot b + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]
   9. Step-by-step derivation

   10. Applied rewrites 18.5%

       \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right) + 0.5 \cdot b}}} \]

   11. Taylor expanded in b around inf

       \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{1 + e^{a}}{\color{blue}{b}}} \]
   12. Step-by-step derivation

   13. Applied rewrites 98.1%

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

   if 0.0 < (exp.f64 a)

   1. Initial program 69.8%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \log \left(e^{a} + \color{blue}{\left(1 + b\right)}\right) \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. lower-+.f64 65.8

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

   5. Applied rewrites 65.8%

      \[\leadsto \log \left(e^{a} + \color{blue}{\left(1 + b\right)}\right) \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 73.4%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;e^{a} \leq 0:\\ \;\;\;\;{\left(\frac{1 + e^{a}}{b}\right)}^{-1}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\log \left(e^{a} + \left(1 + b\right)\right)\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 6: 97.5% accurate, 0.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;e^{a} \leq 0:\\ \;\;\;\;{\left(\frac{1 + e^{a}}{b}\right)}^{-1}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{b}\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (exp a) 0.0) (pow (/ (+ 1.0 (exp a)) b) -1.0) (log1p (exp b))))

C

assert(a < b);
double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (exp(a) <= 0.0) {
		tmp = pow(((1.0 + exp(a)) / b), -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = log1p(exp(b));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Java

assert a < b;
public static double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (Math.exp(a) <= 0.0) {
		tmp = Math.pow(((1.0 + Math.exp(a)) / b), -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = Math.log1p(Math.exp(b));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

[a, b] = sort([a, b])
def code(a, b):
	tmp = 0
	if math.exp(a) <= 0.0:
		tmp = math.pow(((1.0 + math.exp(a)) / b), -1.0)
	else:
		tmp = math.log1p(math.exp(b))
	return tmp

Julia

a, b = sort([a, b])
function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (exp(a) <= 0.0)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(1.0 + exp(a)) / b) ^ -1.0;
	else
		tmp = log1p(exp(b));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision], 0.0], N[Power[N[(N[(1.0 + N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / b), $MachinePrecision], -1.0], $MachinePrecision], N[Log[1 + N[Exp[b], $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (exp.f64 a) < 0.0

   1. Initial program 9.1%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative N/A

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

      2. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

      3. associate-*r/ N/A

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

      4. lower-+.f64 N/A

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

      5. associate-*r/ N/A

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

      6. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

      7. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

      8. +-commutative N/A

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

      9. lower-+.f64 N/A

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

      10. lower-exp.f64 N/A

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

      11. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

      12. lower-exp.f64 98.4

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 98.4%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{2} \cdot b + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

   8. Applied rewrites 18.5%

      \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot b + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]
   9. Step-by-step derivation

   10. Applied rewrites 18.5%

       \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right) + 0.5 \cdot b}}} \]

   11. Taylor expanded in b around inf

       \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{1 + e^{a}}{\color{blue}{b}}} \]
   12. Step-by-step derivation

   13. Applied rewrites 98.1%

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

   if 0.0 < (exp.f64 a)

   1. Initial program 69.8%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{b}\right)} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{b}\right)} \]

      2. lower-exp.f64 65.9

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{b}}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 65.9%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{b}\right)} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 73.5%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;e^{a} \leq 0:\\ \;\;\;\;{\left(\frac{1 + e^{a}}{b}\right)}^{-1}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{b}\right)\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 7: 97.6% accurate, 0.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;e^{a} \leq 0:\\ \;\;\;\;{\left(\frac{1 + e^{a}}{b}\right)}^{-1}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (exp a) 0.0) (pow (/ (+ 1.0 (exp a)) b) -1.0) (log1p (exp a))))

C

assert(a < b);
double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (exp(a) <= 0.0) {
		tmp = pow(((1.0 + exp(a)) / b), -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = log1p(exp(a));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Java

assert a < b;
public static double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (Math.exp(a) <= 0.0) {
		tmp = Math.pow(((1.0 + Math.exp(a)) / b), -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = Math.log1p(Math.exp(a));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

[a, b] = sort([a, b])
def code(a, b):
	tmp = 0
	if math.exp(a) <= 0.0:
		tmp = math.pow(((1.0 + math.exp(a)) / b), -1.0)
	else:
		tmp = math.log1p(math.exp(a))
	return tmp

Julia

a, b = sort([a, b])
function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (exp(a) <= 0.0)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(1.0 + exp(a)) / b) ^ -1.0;
	else
		tmp = log1p(exp(a));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision], 0.0], N[Power[N[(N[(1.0 + N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / b), $MachinePrecision], -1.0], $MachinePrecision], N[Log[1 + N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (exp.f64 a) < 0.0

   1. Initial program 9.1%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative N/A

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

      2. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

      3. associate-*r/ N/A

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

      4. lower-+.f64 N/A

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

      5. associate-*r/ N/A

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

      6. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

      7. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

      8. +-commutative N/A

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

      9. lower-+.f64 N/A

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

      10. lower-exp.f64 N/A

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

      11. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

      12. lower-exp.f64 98.4

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 98.4%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{2} \cdot b + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

   8. Applied rewrites 18.5%

      \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot b + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]
   9. Step-by-step derivation

   10. Applied rewrites 18.5%

       \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right) + 0.5 \cdot b}}} \]

   11. Taylor expanded in b around inf

       \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{1 + e^{a}}{\color{blue}{b}}} \]
   12. Step-by-step derivation

   13. Applied rewrites 98.1%

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

   if 0.0 < (exp.f64 a)

   1. Initial program 69.8%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

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

      1. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

      2. lower-exp.f64 66.8

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 66.8%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 74.2%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;e^{a} \leq 0:\\ \;\;\;\;{\left(\frac{1 + e^{a}}{b}\right)}^{-1}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 8: 97.1% accurate, 0.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;e^{a} \leq 0:\\ \;\;\;\;{\left(\frac{1 + e^{a}}{b}\right)}^{-1}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, -0.005208333333333333, 0.125\right), a, 0.5\right), a, \log 2\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (exp a) 0.0)
   (pow (/ (+ 1.0 (exp a)) b) -1.0)
   (fma (fma (fma (* a a) -0.005208333333333333 0.125) a 0.5) a (log 2.0))))

C

assert(a < b);
double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (exp(a) <= 0.0) {
		tmp = pow(((1.0 + exp(a)) / b), -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = fma(fma(fma((a * a), -0.005208333333333333, 0.125), a, 0.5), a, log(2.0));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

a, b = sort([a, b])
function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (exp(a) <= 0.0)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(1.0 + exp(a)) / b) ^ -1.0;
	else
		tmp = fma(fma(fma(Float64(a * a), -0.005208333333333333, 0.125), a, 0.5), a, log(2.0));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision], 0.0], N[Power[N[(N[(1.0 + N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / b), $MachinePrecision], -1.0], $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * -0.005208333333333333 + 0.125), $MachinePrecision] * a + 0.5), $MachinePrecision] * a + N[Log[2.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (exp.f64 a) < 0.0

   1. Initial program 9.1%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative N/A

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

      2. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

      3. associate-*r/ N/A

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

      4. lower-+.f64 N/A

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

      5. associate-*r/ N/A

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

      6. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

      7. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

      8. +-commutative N/A

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

      9. lower-+.f64 N/A

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

      10. lower-exp.f64 N/A

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

      11. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

      12. lower-exp.f64 98.4

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 98.4%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{2} \cdot b + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

   8. Applied rewrites 18.5%

      \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot b + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]
   9. Step-by-step derivation

   10. Applied rewrites 18.5%

       \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right) + 0.5 \cdot b}}} \]

   11. Taylor expanded in b around inf

       \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{1 + e^{a}}{\color{blue}{b}}} \]
   12. Step-by-step derivation

   13. Applied rewrites 98.1%

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

   if 0.0 < (exp.f64 a)

   1. Initial program 69.8%

      \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

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

      1. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

      2. lower-exp.f64 66.8

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 66.8%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \log 2 + \color{blue}{a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} + a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{8} + \frac{-1}{192} \cdot {a}^{2}\right)\right)} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

   8. Applied rewrites 66.1%

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, -0.005208333333333333, 0.125\right), a, 0.5\right), \color{blue}{a}, \log 2\right) \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 73.6%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;e^{a} \leq 0:\\ \;\;\;\;{\left(\frac{1 + e^{a}}{b}\right)}^{-1}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, -0.005208333333333333, 0.125\right), a, 0.5\right), a, \log 2\right)\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 9: 98.4% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \\ \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right) \end{array} \]

FPCore

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (+ (/ b (+ (exp a) 1.0)) (log1p (exp a))))

C

assert(a < b);
double code(double a, double b) {
	return (b / (exp(a) + 1.0)) + log1p(exp(a));
}

Java

assert a < b;
public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return (b / (Math.exp(a) + 1.0)) + Math.log1p(Math.exp(a));
}

Python

[a, b] = sort([a, b])
def code(a, b):
	return (b / (math.exp(a) + 1.0)) + math.log1p(math.exp(a))

Julia

a, b = sort([a, b])
function code(a, b)
	return Float64(Float64(b / Float64(exp(a) + 1.0)) + log1p(exp(a)))
end

Wolfram

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
code[a_, b_] := N[(N[(b / N[(N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision] + 1.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[Log[1 + N[Exp[a], $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 55.6%

   \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
2. Add Preprocessing

3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} \]
4. Step-by-step derivation

   1. +-commutative N/A

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

   2. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

   3. associate-*r/ N/A

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

   4. lower-+.f64 N/A

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

   5. associate-*r/ N/A

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

   6. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

   7. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

   8. +-commutative N/A

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

   9. lower-+.f64 N/A

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

   10. lower-exp.f64 N/A

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

   11. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

       \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

   12. lower-exp.f64 74.2

       \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

5. Applied rewrites 74.2%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

6. Final simplification 74.2%

   \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right) \]
7. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 10: 49.4% accurate, 2.8× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \\ \mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, b, \log 2\right) \end{array} \]

FPCore

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (fma 0.5 b (log 2.0)))

C

assert(a < b);
double code(double a, double b) {
	return fma(0.5, b, log(2.0));
}

Julia

a, b = sort([a, b])
function code(a, b)
	return fma(0.5, b, log(2.0))
end

Wolfram

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
code[a_, b_] := N[(0.5 * b + N[Log[2.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 55.6%

   \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
2. Add Preprocessing

3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(1 + e^{a}\right) + \frac{b}{1 + e^{a}}} \]
4. Step-by-step derivation

   1. +-commutative N/A

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

   2. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

   3. associate-*r/ N/A

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

   4. lower-+.f64 N/A

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

   5. associate-*r/ N/A

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

   6. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

   7. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

   8. +-commutative N/A

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

   9. lower-+.f64 N/A

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

   10. lower-exp.f64 N/A

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

   11. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

       \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

   12. lower-exp.f64 74.2

       \[\leadsto \frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

5. Applied rewrites 74.2%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{e^{a} + 1} + \mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

   \[\leadsto \log 2 + \color{blue}{\frac{1}{2} \cdot b} \]
7. Step-by-step derivation

8. Applied rewrites 50.7%

   \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \color{blue}{b}, \log 2\right) \]

9. Final simplification 50.7%

   \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, b, \log 2\right) \]
10. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 11: 49.2% accurate, 2.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \\ \mathsf{log1p}\left(1 + b\right) \end{array} \]

FPCore

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (log1p (+ 1.0 b)))

C

assert(a < b);
double code(double a, double b) {
	return log1p((1.0 + b));
}

Java

assert a < b;
public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return Math.log1p((1.0 + b));
}

Python

[a, b] = sort([a, b])
def code(a, b):
	return math.log1p((1.0 + b))

Julia

a, b = sort([a, b])
function code(a, b)
	return log1p(Float64(1.0 + b))
end

Wolfram

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
code[a_, b_] := N[Log[1 + N[(1.0 + b), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 55.6%

   \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
2. Add Preprocessing
3. Step-by-step derivation

   1. lift-log.f64 N/A

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

   2. lift-+.f64 N/A

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

   3. flip-+ N/A

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

   4. clear-num N/A

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

   5. log-rec N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{neg}\left(\log \left(\frac{e^{a} - e^{b}}{e^{a} \cdot e^{a} - e^{b} \cdot e^{b}}\right)\right)} \]

   6. lower-neg.f64 N/A

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

   7. lower-log.f64 N/A

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

   8. clear-num N/A

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

   9. flip-+ N/A

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

   10. lift-+.f64 N/A

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

   11. lower-/.f64 55.5

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

   12. lift-+.f64 N/A

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

   13. +-commutative N/A

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

   14. lower-+.f64 55.5

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

4. Applied rewrites 55.5%

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

5. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

   1. mul-1-neg N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{neg}\left(\log \left(\frac{1}{1 + e^{b}}\right)\right)} \]

   2. log-rec N/A

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\log \left(1 + e^{b}\right)\right)\right)}\right) \]

   3. remove-double-neg N/A

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

   4. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{b}\right)} \]

   5. lower-exp.f64 51.3

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{b}}\right) \]

7. Applied rewrites 51.3%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{b}\right)} \]

8. Taylor expanded in b around 0

   \[\leadsto \mathsf{log1p}\left(1 + b\right) \]
9. Step-by-step derivation

10. Applied rewrites 50.0%

    \[\leadsto \mathsf{log1p}\left(1 + b\right) \]
11. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 12: 48.7% accurate, 3.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \\ \mathsf{log1p}\left(1\right) \end{array} \]

FPCore

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (log1p 1.0))

C

assert(a < b);
double code(double a, double b) {
	return log1p(1.0);
}

Java

assert a < b;
public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return Math.log1p(1.0);
}

Python

[a, b] = sort([a, b])
def code(a, b):
	return math.log1p(1.0)

Julia

a, b = sort([a, b])
function code(a, b)
	return log1p(1.0)
end

Wolfram

NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
code[a_, b_] := N[Log[1 + 1.0], $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 55.6%

   \[\log \left(e^{a} + e^{b}\right) \]
2. Add Preprocessing

3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

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

   1. lower-log1p.f64 N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

   2. lower-exp.f64 52.4

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{e^{a}}\right) \]

5. Applied rewrites 52.4%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(e^{a}\right)} \]

6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

   \[\leadsto \mathsf{log1p}\left(1\right) \]
7. Step-by-step derivation

8. Applied rewrites 50.8%

   \[\leadsto \mathsf{log1p}\left(1\right) \]

9. Final simplification 50.8%

   \[\leadsto \mathsf{log1p}\left(1\right) \]
10. Add Preprocessing

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2024307 
(FPCore (a b)
  :name "symmetry log of sum of exp"
  :precision binary64
  (log (+ (exp a) (exp b))))