Average Error: 61.2 → 0.0
Time: 28.2s
Precision: 64
Internal Precision: 1408
\[\frac{\log \left(1 - x\right)}{\log \left(1 + x\right)}\]
↓
\[-\left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2} + \left(1 + x\right)\right)\]

Error

Bits error versus x

Target

Original61.2
Target0.5
Herbie0.0
\[-\left(\left(\left(1 + x\right) + \frac{x \cdot x}{2}\right) + \frac{5}{12} \cdot {x}^{3}\right)\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 61.2

    \[\frac{\log \left(1 - x\right)}{\log \left(1 + x\right)}\]

  2. Taylor expanded around 0 0.0

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-\left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2} + \left(1 + x\right)\right)}\]
  3. Removed slow pow expressions.

Runtime

Time bar (total: 28.2s)Debug log

herbie shell --seed '#(1567391828 2030694642 2833800258 828025724 3004380912 3532991858)' +o reduce:binary-search
(FPCore (x)
  :name "qlog (example 3.10)"
  :pre (and (< -1 x) (< x 1))

  :herbie-target
  (- (+ (+ (+ 1 x) (/ (* x x) 2)) (* 5/12 (pow x 3))))

  (/ (log (- 1 x)) (log (+ 1 x))))