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Handwritten Sigmoid

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Problem statement

Given a finite double x, return its logistic sigmoid:

sigmoid(x) = 1 / (1 + exp(-x))

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Example 1

x = 0.0return = 0.5

At x = 0, exp(0) = 1, so the result is 1 / 2.

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