Average Error: 60.8 → 0.4
Time: 58.0s
Precision: 64
Internal Precision: 1344
\[\frac{\log \left(1 - x\right)}{\log \left(1 + x\right)}\]
↓
\[-\left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2} + \left(1 + x\right)\right)\]

Error

Bits error versus x

Target

Original60.8
Target0.3
Herbie0.4
\[-\left(\left(\left(1 + x\right) + \frac{x \cdot x}{2}\right) + \frac{5}{12} \cdot {x}^{3}\right)\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 60.8

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

  2. Taylor expanded around 0 0.4

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-\left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2} + \left(1 + x\right)\right)}\]

Runtime

Time bar (total: 58.0s)Debug logProfile

herbie shell --seed '#(1072361757 3390613284 2339397988 1175251238 145061547 3101881848)' 
(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))))