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1// polynomial for approximating e^x
2//
3// Part of the LLVM Project, under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions.
4// See https://llvm.org/LICENSE.txt for license information.
5// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception
6
7deg = 4; // poly degree
8N = 128; // table entries
9b = log(2)/(2*N);  // interval
10a = -b;
11
12// find polynomial with minimal abs error
13
14// return p that minimizes |exp(x) - poly(x) - x^d*p(x)|
15approx = proc(poly,d) {
16  return remez(exp(x)-poly(x), deg-d, [a;b], x^d, 1e-10);
17};
18
19// first 2 coeffs are fixed, iteratively find optimal double prec coeffs
20poly = 1 + x;
21for i from 2 to deg do {
22  p = roundcoefficients(approx(poly,i), [|D ...|]);
23  poly = poly + x^i*coeff(p,0);
24};
25
26display = hexadecimal;
27print("rel error:", accurateinfnorm(1-poly(x)/exp(x), [a;b], 30));
28print("abs error:", accurateinfnorm(exp(x)-poly(x), [a;b], 30));
29print("in [",a,b,"]");
30print("coeffs:");
31for i from 0 to deg do coeff(poly,i);
32