Average Error: 13.7 → 1.0

Time: 43.2s

Precision: 64

Internal Precision: 128

\[wj - \frac{wj \cdot e^{wj} - x}{e^{wj} + wj \cdot e^{wj}}\]

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\[\left(\left({wj}^{2} + {wj}^{4}\right) - {wj}^{3}\right) + \frac{\frac{x}{e^{wj}}}{wj \cdot wj - 1} \cdot \left(wj - 1\right)\]

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Target

Original	13.7
Target	13.1
Herbie	1.0

\[wj - \left(\frac{wj}{wj + 1} - \frac{x}{e^{wj} + wj \cdot e^{wj}}\right)\]

Derivation

Initial program 13.7
\[wj - \frac{wj \cdot e^{wj} - x}{e^{wj} + wj \cdot e^{wj}}\]
Initial simplification6.9
\[\leadsto \left(wj - \frac{wj}{wj + 1}\right) + \frac{\frac{x}{e^{wj}}}{wj + 1}\]
Taylor expanded around 0 1.0
\[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\left({wj}^{2} + {wj}^{4}\right) - {wj}^{3}\right)} + \frac{\frac{x}{e^{wj}}}{wj + 1}\]
Using strategy rm
Applied flip-+1.0
\[\leadsto \left(\left({wj}^{2} + {wj}^{4}\right) - {wj}^{3}\right) + \frac{\frac{x}{e^{wj}}}{\color{blue}{\frac{wj \cdot wj - 1 \cdot 1}{wj - 1}}}\]
Applied associate-/r/1.0
\[\leadsto \left(\left({wj}^{2} + {wj}^{4}\right) - {wj}^{3}\right) + \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{x}{e^{wj}}}{wj \cdot wj - 1 \cdot 1} \cdot \left(wj - 1\right)}\]
Final simplification1.0
\[\leadsto \left(\left({wj}^{2} + {wj}^{4}\right) - {wj}^{3}\right) + \frac{\frac{x}{e^{wj}}}{wj \cdot wj - 1} \cdot \left(wj - 1\right)\]

Runtime

	Baseline	Herbie	Oracle	Span	%
Regimes	1.0	1.0	0.1	1.0	0%

herbie shell --seed 2018352 
(FPCore (wj x)
  :name "Jmat.Real.lambertw, newton loop step"

  :herbie-target
  (- wj (- (/ wj (+ wj 1)) (/ x (+ (exp wj) (* wj (exp wj))))))

  (- wj (/ (- (* wj (exp wj)) x) (+ (exp wj) (* wj (exp wj))))))