Average Error: 58.6 → 0.2

Time: 19.5s

Precision: 64

Internal Precision: 1344

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

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\[{\varepsilon}^{5} \cdot \frac{-2}{5} - \left(\varepsilon \cdot 2 + \varepsilon \cdot \left(\left(\frac{2}{3} \cdot \varepsilon\right) \cdot \varepsilon\right)\right)\]

Error

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Target

Original	58.6
Target	0.2
Herbie	0.2

\[-2 \cdot \left(\left(\varepsilon + \frac{{\varepsilon}^{3}}{3}\right) + \frac{{\varepsilon}^{5}}{5}\right)\]

Derivation

Initial program 58.6
\[\log \left(\frac{1 - \varepsilon}{1 + \varepsilon}\right)\]
Taylor expanded around 0 0.2
\[\leadsto \color{blue}{-\left(\frac{2}{3} \cdot {\varepsilon}^{3} + \left(\frac{2}{5} \cdot {\varepsilon}^{5} + 2 \cdot \varepsilon\right)\right)}\]
Simplified0.2
\[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-2}{5} \cdot {\varepsilon}^{5} - \varepsilon \cdot \left(\varepsilon \cdot \left(\frac{2}{3} \cdot \varepsilon\right) + 2\right)}\]
Using strategy rm
Applied distribute-rgt-in0.2
\[\leadsto \frac{-2}{5} \cdot {\varepsilon}^{5} - \color{blue}{\left(\left(\varepsilon \cdot \left(\frac{2}{3} \cdot \varepsilon\right)\right) \cdot \varepsilon + 2 \cdot \varepsilon\right)}\]
Final simplification0.2
\[\leadsto {\varepsilon}^{5} \cdot \frac{-2}{5} - \left(\varepsilon \cdot 2 + \varepsilon \cdot \left(\left(\frac{2}{3} \cdot \varepsilon\right) \cdot \varepsilon\right)\right)\]

Runtime

herbie shell --seed 2018234 
(FPCore (eps)
  :name "logq (problem 3.4.3)"

  :herbie-target
  (* -2 (+ (+ eps (/ (pow eps 3) 3)) (/ (pow eps 5) 5)))

  (log (/ (- 1 eps) (+ 1 eps))))