<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>expm1</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../math.css" type="text/css"> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.1"> <link rel="home" href="../../index.html" title="Math Toolkit 2.12.0"> <link rel="up" href="../powers.html" title="Basic Functions"> <link rel="prev" href="log1p.html" title="log1p"> <link rel="next" href="cbrt.html" title="cbrt"> </head> <body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"> <table cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr> <td valign="top"><img alt="Boost C++ Libraries" width="277" height="86" src="../../../../../../boost.png"></td> <td align="center"><a href="../../../../../../index.html">Home</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="../../../../../../libs/libraries.htm">Libraries</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="http://www.boost.org/users/people.html">People</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="http://www.boost.org/users/faq.html">FAQ</a></td> <td align="center"><a href="../../../../../../more/index.htm">More</a></td> </tr></table> <hr> <div class="spirit-nav"> <a accesskey="p" href="log1p.html"><img src="../../../../../../doc/src/images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a><a accesskey="u" href="../powers.html"><img src="../../../../../../doc/src/images/up.png" alt="Up"></a><a accesskey="h" href="../../index.html"><img src="../../../../../../doc/src/images/home.png" alt="Home"></a><a accesskey="n" href="cbrt.html"><img src="../../../../../../doc/src/images/next.png" alt="Next"></a> </div> <div class="section"> <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"> <a name="math_toolkit.powers.expm1"></a><a class="link" href="expm1.html" title="expm1">expm1</a> </h3></div></div></div> <pre class="programlisting"><span class="preprocessor">#include</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">special_functions</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="identifier">expm1</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">hpp</span><span class="special">></span> </pre> <pre class="programlisting"><span class="keyword">namespace</span> <span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">{</span> <span class="keyword">namespace</span> <span class="identifier">math</span><span class="special">{</span> <span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">></span> <a class="link" href="../result_type.html" title="Calculation of the Type of the Result"><span class="emphasis"><em>calculated-result-type</em></span></a> <span class="identifier">expm1</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">T</span> <span class="identifier">x</span><span class="special">);</span> <span class="keyword">template</span> <span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">class</span> <span class="identifier">T</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="keyword">class</span> <a class="link" href="../../policy.html" title="Chapter 21. Policies: Controlling Precision, Error Handling etc">Policy</a><span class="special">></span> <a class="link" href="../result_type.html" title="Calculation of the Type of the Result"><span class="emphasis"><em>calculated-result-type</em></span></a> <span class="identifier">expm1</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">T</span> <span class="identifier">x</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="keyword">const</span> <a class="link" href="../../policy.html" title="Chapter 21. Policies: Controlling Precision, Error Handling etc">Policy</a><span class="special">&);</span> <span class="special">}}</span> <span class="comment">// namespaces</span> </pre> <p> Returns e<sup>x</sup> - 1. </p> <p> The return type of this function is computed using the <a class="link" href="../result_type.html" title="Calculation of the Type of the Result"><span class="emphasis"><em>result type calculation rules</em></span></a>: the return is <code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">double</span></code> when <span class="emphasis"><em>x</em></span> is an integer type and T otherwise. </p> <p> The final <a class="link" href="../../policy.html" title="Chapter 21. Policies: Controlling Precision, Error Handling etc">Policy</a> argument is optional and can be used to control the behaviour of the function: how it handles errors, what level of precision to use etc. Refer to the <a class="link" href="../../policy.html" title="Chapter 21. Policies: Controlling Precision, Error Handling etc">policy documentation for more details</a>. </p> <p> For small <span class="emphasis"><em>x</em></span>, then <code class="computeroutput">e<sup>x</sup></code> is very close to 1, as a result calculating <code class="computeroutput">e<sup>x</sup> - 1</code> results in catastrophic cancellation errors when <span class="emphasis"><em>x</em></span> is small. <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">expm1</span></code> calculates <code class="computeroutput">e<sup>x</sup> - 1</code> using rational approximations (for up to 128-bit long doubles), otherwise via a series expansion when x is small (giving an accuracy of less than 2ɛ). </p> <p> Finally when BOOST_HAS_EXPM1 is defined then the <code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">float</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="keyword">double</span><span class="special">/</span><span class="keyword">long</span> <span class="keyword">double</span></code> specializations of this template simply forward to the platform's native (POSIX) implementation of this function. </p> <p> The following graph illustrates the behaviour of expm1: </p> <div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote"><p> <span class="inlinemediaobject"><img src="../../../graphs/expm1.svg" align="middle"></span> </p></blockquote></div> <h5> <a name="math_toolkit.powers.expm1.h0"></a> <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.powers.expm1.accuracy"></a></span><a class="link" href="expm1.html#math_toolkit.powers.expm1.accuracy">Accuracy</a> </h5> <p> For built in floating point types <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">expm1</span></code> should have approximately 1 epsilon accuracy. </p> <div class="table"> <a name="math_toolkit.powers.expm1.table_expm1"></a><p class="title"><b>Table 8.82. Error rates for expm1</b></p> <div class="table-contents"><table class="table" summary="Error rates for expm1"> <colgroup> <col> <col> <col> <col> <col> </colgroup> <thead><tr> <th> </th> <th> <p> GNU C++ version 7.1.0<br> linux<br> long double </p> </th> <th> <p> GNU C++ version 7.1.0<br> linux<br> double </p> </th> <th> <p> Sun compiler version 0x5150<br> Sun Solaris<br> long double </p> </th> <th> <p> Microsoft Visual C++ version 14.1<br> Win32<br> double </p> </th> </tr></thead> <tbody><tr> <td> <p> Random test data </p> </td> <td> <p> <span class="blue">Max = 0.992ε (Mean = 0.402ε)</span><br> <br> (<span class="emphasis"><em><cmath>:</em></span> Max = 0.992ε (Mean = 0.402ε))<br> (<span class="emphasis"><em><math.h>:</em></span> Max = 0.992ε (Mean = 0.402ε)) </p> </td> <td> <p> <span class="blue">Max = 0.793ε (Mean = 0.126ε)</span><br> <br> (<span class="emphasis"><em>Rmath 3.2.3:</em></span> Max = 0.793ε (Mean = 0.126ε)) </p> </td> <td> <p> <span class="blue">Max = 1.31ε (Mean = 0.428ε)</span><br> <br> (<span class="emphasis"><em><math.h>:</em></span> Max = 0.996ε (Mean = 0.426ε)) </p> </td> <td> <p> <span class="blue">Max = 1.31ε (Mean = 0.496ε)</span><br> <br> (<span class="emphasis"><em><math.h>:</em></span> Max = 1.31ε (Mean = 0.496ε)) </p> </td> </tr></tbody> </table></div> </div> <br class="table-break"><h5> <a name="math_toolkit.powers.expm1.h1"></a> <span class="phrase"><a name="math_toolkit.powers.expm1.testing"></a></span><a class="link" href="expm1.html#math_toolkit.powers.expm1.testing">Testing</a> </h5> <p> A mixture of spot test sanity checks, and random high precision test values calculated using NTL::RR at 1000-bit precision. </p> </div> <table xmlns:rev="http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gregod/boost/tools/doc/revision" width="100%"><tr> <td align="left"></td> <td align="right"><div class="copyright-footer">Copyright © 2006-2019 Nikhar Agrawal, Anton Bikineev, Paul A. 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