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Derivation

1. Initial program 30.6

   \[\frac{1 - \cos x}{x \cdot x}\]

2. Initial simplification30.6

   \[\leadsto \frac{1 - \cos x}{x \cdot x}\]
3. Using strategy rm

4. Applied flip--30.8

   \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{1 \cdot 1 - \cos x \cdot \cos x}{1 + \cos x}}}{x \cdot x}\]

5. Applied associate-/l/30.8

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

6. Simplified14.9

   \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\sin x \cdot \sin x}}{\left(x \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(1 + \cos x\right)}\]

7. Taylor expanded around inf 14.9

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

8. Simplified15.1

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\tan \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)}{\frac{x \cdot x}{\sin x}}}\]
9. Using strategy rm

10. Applied associate-/l*0.4

    \[\leadsto \frac{\tan \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)}{\color{blue}{\frac{x}{\frac{\sin x}{x}}}}\]

11. Final simplification0.4

    \[\leadsto \frac{\tan \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)}{\frac{x}{\frac{\sin x}{x}}}\]

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herbie shell --seed 2018277 
(FPCore (x)
  :name "cos2 (problem 3.4.1)"
  (/ (- 1 (cos x)) (* x x)))