Average Error: 30.8 → 0.4
Time: 16.0s
Precision: 64
Internal Precision: 128
\[\frac{1 - \cos x}{x \cdot x}\]
\[\begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;x \le -8.592662095200064 \cdot 10^{-07}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{x \cdot x} \cdot \left(\tan \left(\frac{x}{2}\right) \cdot \sin x\right)\\ \mathbf{elif}\;x \le 9.466399131825878 \cdot 10^{+23}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt[3]{{\left(\frac{\sin x}{x} \cdot \frac{\sin x}{x}\right)}^{3}}}{1 + \cos x}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\frac{1 - \cos x}{x}}{x}\\ \end{array}\]

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Derivation

  1. Split input into 3 regimes
  2. if x < -8.592662095200064e-07

    1. Initial program 1.5

      \[\frac{1 - \cos x}{x \cdot x}\]
    2. Using strategy rm
    3. Applied flip--1.7

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{1 \cdot 1 - \cos x \cdot \cos x}{1 + \cos x}}}{x \cdot x}\]
    4. Applied associate-/l/1.7

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1 \cdot 1 - \cos x \cdot \cos x}{\left(x \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(1 + \cos x\right)}}\]
    5. Simplified1.1

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\sin x \cdot \sin x}}{\left(x \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(1 + \cos x\right)}\]
    6. Using strategy rm
    7. Applied expm1-log1p-u1.1

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{(e^{\log_* (1 + \sin x \cdot \sin x)} - 1)^*}}{\left(x \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(1 + \cos x\right)}\]
    8. Using strategy rm
    9. Applied *-un-lft-identity1.1

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{1 \cdot (e^{\log_* (1 + \sin x \cdot \sin x)} - 1)^*}}{\left(x \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(1 + \cos x\right)}\]
    10. Applied times-frac1.2

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{x \cdot x} \cdot \frac{(e^{\log_* (1 + \sin x \cdot \sin x)} - 1)^*}{1 + \cos x}}\]
    11. Simplified0.8

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

    if -8.592662095200064e-07 < x < 9.466399131825878e+23

    1. Initial program 59.1

      \[\frac{1 - \cos x}{x \cdot x}\]
    2. Using strategy rm
    3. Applied flip--59.1

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{1 \cdot 1 - \cos x \cdot \cos x}{1 + \cos x}}}{x \cdot x}\]
    4. Applied associate-/l/59.1

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1 \cdot 1 - \cos x \cdot \cos x}{\left(x \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(1 + \cos x\right)}}\]
    5. Simplified28.4

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\sin x \cdot \sin x}}{\left(x \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(1 + \cos x\right)}\]
    6. Using strategy rm
    7. Applied expm1-log1p-u28.4

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{(e^{\log_* (1 + \sin x \cdot \sin x)} - 1)^*}}{\left(x \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(1 + \cos x\right)}\]
    8. Using strategy rm
    9. Applied associate-/r*28.4

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{(e^{\log_* (1 + \sin x \cdot \sin x)} - 1)^*}{x \cdot x}}{1 + \cos x}}\]
    10. Using strategy rm
    11. Applied add-cbrt-cube49.7

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{(e^{\log_* (1 + \sin x \cdot \sin x)} - 1)^*}{\color{blue}{\sqrt[3]{\left(\left(x \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right)\right) \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right)}}}}{1 + \cos x}\]
    12. Applied add-cbrt-cube49.5

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\color{blue}{\sqrt[3]{\left((e^{\log_* (1 + \sin x \cdot \sin x)} - 1)^* \cdot (e^{\log_* (1 + \sin x \cdot \sin x)} - 1)^*\right) \cdot (e^{\log_* (1 + \sin x \cdot \sin x)} - 1)^*}}}{\sqrt[3]{\left(\left(x \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right)\right) \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right)}}}{1 + \cos x}\]
    13. Applied cbrt-undiv49.4

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\sqrt[3]{\frac{\left((e^{\log_* (1 + \sin x \cdot \sin x)} - 1)^* \cdot (e^{\log_* (1 + \sin x \cdot \sin x)} - 1)^*\right) \cdot (e^{\log_* (1 + \sin x \cdot \sin x)} - 1)^*}{\left(\left(x \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right)\right) \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right)}}}}{1 + \cos x}\]
    14. Simplified0.1

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt[3]{\color{blue}{{\left(\frac{\sin x}{x} \cdot \frac{\sin x}{x}\right)}^{3}}}}{1 + \cos x}\]

    if 9.466399131825878e+23 < x

    1. Initial program 1.1

      \[\frac{1 - \cos x}{x \cdot x}\]
    2. Using strategy rm
    3. Applied associate-/r*0.4

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1 - \cos x}{x}}{x}}\]
  3. Recombined 3 regimes into one program.
  4. Final simplification0.4

    \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;x \le -8.592662095200064 \cdot 10^{-07}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{x \cdot x} \cdot \left(\tan \left(\frac{x}{2}\right) \cdot \sin x\right)\\ \mathbf{elif}\;x \le 9.466399131825878 \cdot 10^{+23}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt[3]{{\left(\frac{\sin x}{x} \cdot \frac{\sin x}{x}\right)}^{3}}}{1 + \cos x}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\frac{1 - \cos x}{x}}{x}\\ \end{array}\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2019007 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (x)
  :name "cos2 (problem 3.4.1)"
  (/ (- 1 (cos x)) (* x x)))

Details

Time bar (total: 15.5s)Debug log

sample120.0ms

Algorithm
intervals

simplify15.0ms

Counts
1 → 1
Calls

1 calls. Slowest were:

14.0ms
(/ (- 1 (cos x)) (* x x))

prune4.0ms

Pruning

1 alts after pruning (1 fresh and 0 done)

Merged error: 30.9b

localize23.0ms

Local error

Found 2 expressions with local error:

16.5b
(/ (- 1 (cos x)) (* x x))
1.8b
(- 1 (cos x))

rewrite27.0ms

Algorithm
rewrite-expression-head
Counts
2 → 37
Calls

2 calls. Slowest were:

25.0ms
(/ (- 1 (cos x)) (* x x))
1.0ms
(- 1 (cos x))

series87.0ms

Counts
2 → 6
Calls

2 calls. Slowest were:

57.0ms
(/ (- 1 (cos x)) (* x x))
30.0ms
(- 1 (cos x))

simplify795.0ms

Counts
19 → 43
Calls

19 calls. Slowest were:

406.0ms
(/ (* (* (- 1 (cos x)) (- 1 (cos x))) (- 1 (cos x))) (* (* (* x x) (* x x)) (* x x)))
105.0ms
(- (+ (* 1/2 (pow x 2)) (* 1/720 (pow x 6))) (* 1/24 (pow x 4)))
59.0ms
(- (+ (* 1/720 (pow x 4)) 1/2) (* 1/24 (pow x 2)))

prune393.0ms

Pruning

6 alts after pruning (6 fresh and 0 done)

Merged error: 0.0b

localize24.0ms

Local error

Found 4 expressions with local error:

16.5b
(/ (* (sin x) (sin x)) (* (* x x) (+ 1 (cos x))))
0.3b
(+ 1 (cos x))
0.3b
(* (sin x) (sin x))
0.1b
(* (* x x) (+ 1 (cos x)))

rewrite35.0ms

Algorithm
rewrite-expression-head
Counts
4 → 84
Calls

4 calls. Slowest were:

17.0ms
(/ (* (sin x) (sin x)) (* (* x x) (+ 1 (cos x))))
7.0ms
(* (* x x) (+ 1 (cos x)))
7.0ms
(* (sin x) (sin x))

series121.0ms

Counts
4 → 12
Calls

4 calls. Slowest were:

63.0ms
(/ (* (sin x) (sin x)) (* (* x x) (+ 1 (cos x))))
31.0ms
(* (* x x) (+ 1 (cos x)))
17.0ms
(* (sin x) (sin x))
8.0ms
(+ 1 (cos x))

simplify3.9s

Counts
51 → 96
Calls

51 calls. Slowest were:

382.0ms
(/ (* (* (* (sin x) (sin x)) (sin x)) (* (* (sin x) (sin x)) (sin x))) (* (* (* (* x x) (* x x)) (* x x)) (* (* (+ 1 (cos x)) (+ 1 (cos x))) (+ 1 (cos x)))))
356.0ms
(/ (* (* (* (sin x) (sin x)) (* (sin x) (sin x))) (* (sin x) (sin x))) (* (* (* (* x x) (+ 1 (cos x))) (* (* x x) (+ 1 (cos x)))) (* (* x x) (+ 1 (cos x)))))
354.0ms
(/ (* (* (* (sin x) (sin x)) (sin x)) (* (* (sin x) (sin x)) (sin x))) (* (* (* (* x x) (+ 1 (cos x))) (* (* x x) (+ 1 (cos x)))) (* (* x x) (+ 1 (cos x)))))

prune813.0ms

Pruning

7 alts after pruning (7 fresh and 0 done)

Merged error: 0b

localize9.0ms

Local error

Found 4 expressions with local error:

16.5b
(/ (expm1 (log1p (* (sin x) (sin x)))) (* (* x x) (+ 1 (cos x))))
0.3b
(+ 1 (cos x))
0.3b
(* (sin x) (sin x))
0.2b
(expm1 (log1p (* (sin x) (sin x))))

rewrite15.0ms

Algorithm
rewrite-expression-head
Counts
4 → 73
Calls

4 calls. Slowest were:

7.0ms
(* (sin x) (sin x))
5.0ms
(/ (expm1 (log1p (* (sin x) (sin x)))) (* (* x x) (+ 1 (cos x))))
1.0ms
(+ 1 (cos x))

series504.0ms

Counts
4 → 12
Calls

4 calls. Slowest were:

269.0ms
(/ (expm1 (log1p (* (sin x) (sin x)))) (* (* x x) (+ 1 (cos x))))
210.0ms
(expm1 (log1p (* (sin x) (sin x))))
16.0ms
(* (sin x) (sin x))
9.0ms
(+ 1 (cos x))

simplify1.9s

Counts
42 → 85
Calls

42 calls. Slowest were:

300.0ms
(/ (pow (sin x) 2) (* (pow x 2) (+ (cos x) 1)))
242.0ms
(/ (pow (sin x) 2) (* (pow x 2) (+ (cos x) 1)))
241.0ms
(/ (* (* (expm1 (log1p (* (sin x) (sin x)))) (expm1 (log1p (* (sin x) (sin x))))) (expm1 (log1p (* (sin x) (sin x))))) (* (* (* (* x x) (+ 1 (cos x))) (* (* x x) (+ 1 (cos x)))) (* (* x x) (+ 1 (cos x)))))

prune842.0ms

Pruning

7 alts after pruning (6 fresh and 1 done)

Merged error: 0b

localize12.0ms

Local error

Found 4 expressions with local error:

16.2b
(/ (expm1 (log1p (* (sin x) (sin x)))) (* x x))
0.3b
(+ 1 (cos x))
0.3b
(* (sin x) (sin x))
0.2b
(expm1 (log1p (* (sin x) (sin x))))

rewrite17.0ms

Algorithm
rewrite-expression-head
Counts
4 → 69
Calls

4 calls. Slowest were:

8.0ms
(* (sin x) (sin x))
6.0ms
(/ (expm1 (log1p (* (sin x) (sin x)))) (* x x))
2.0ms
(+ 1 (cos x))

series442.0ms

Counts
4 → 12
Calls

4 calls. Slowest were:

217.0ms
(/ (expm1 (log1p (* (sin x) (sin x)))) (* x x))
187.0ms
(expm1 (log1p (* (sin x) (sin x))))
24.0ms
(* (sin x) (sin x))
14.0ms
(+ 1 (cos x))

simplify1.0s

Counts
37 → 81
Calls

37 calls. Slowest were:

647.0ms
(/ (* (* (expm1 (log1p (* (sin x) (sin x)))) (expm1 (log1p (* (sin x) (sin x))))) (expm1 (log1p (* (sin x) (sin x))))) (* (* (* x x) (* x x)) (* x x)))
61.0ms
(- (+ (* 2/45 (pow x 4)) 1) (* 1/3 (pow x 2)))
53.0ms
(- (+ (* 1/24 (pow x 4)) 2) (* 1/2 (pow x 2)))

prune702.0ms

Pruning

6 alts after pruning (5 fresh and 1 done)

Merged error: 0b

regimes45.0ms

Accuracy

96.8% (0.3b remaining)

Error of 0.4b against oracle of 0.0b and baseline of 10.0b

bsearch98.0ms

end0.0ms

sample3.6s

Algorithm
intervals