Average Error: 0.5 → 0.5
Time: 29.7s
Precision: 64
Internal Precision: 128
\[\cos^{-1} \left(\frac{1 - 5 \cdot \left(v \cdot v\right)}{v \cdot v - 1}\right)\]
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\[\cos^{-1} \left(\frac{1 - \left(v \cdot v\right) \cdot 5}{v \cdot v - 1}\right)\]

Error

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Derivation

  1. Initial program 0.5

    \[\cos^{-1} \left(\frac{1 - 5 \cdot \left(v \cdot v\right)}{v \cdot v - 1}\right)\]
  2. Using strategy rm

  3. Applied flip--0.5

    \[\leadsto \cos^{-1} \left(\frac{1 - 5 \cdot \left(v \cdot v\right)}{\color{blue}{\frac{\left(v \cdot v\right) \cdot \left(v \cdot v\right) - 1 \cdot 1}{v \cdot v + 1}}}\right)\]

  4. Applied associate-/r/0.6

    \[\leadsto \cos^{-1} \color{blue}{\left(\frac{1 - 5 \cdot \left(v \cdot v\right)}{\left(v \cdot v\right) \cdot \left(v \cdot v\right) - 1 \cdot 1} \cdot \left(v \cdot v + 1\right)\right)}\]
  5. Using strategy rm

  6. Applied add-exp-log0.6

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{e^{\log \left(\cos^{-1} \left(\frac{1 - 5 \cdot \left(v \cdot v\right)}{\left(v \cdot v\right) \cdot \left(v \cdot v\right) - 1 \cdot 1} \cdot \left(v \cdot v + 1\right)\right)\right)}}\]
  7. Using strategy rm

  8. Applied rem-exp-log0.6

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\cos^{-1} \left(\frac{1 - 5 \cdot \left(v \cdot v\right)}{\left(v \cdot v\right) \cdot \left(v \cdot v\right) - 1 \cdot 1} \cdot \left(v \cdot v + 1\right)\right)}\]

  9. Simplified0.5

    \[\leadsto \cos^{-1} \color{blue}{\left(\frac{1 - \left(v \cdot v\right) \cdot 5}{1 \cdot \left(v \cdot v - 1\right)}\right)}\]

  10. Final simplification0.5

    \[\leadsto \cos^{-1} \left(\frac{1 - \left(v \cdot v\right) \cdot 5}{v \cdot v - 1}\right)\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2019026 
(FPCore (v)
  :name "Falkner and Boettcher, Appendix B, 1"
  (acos (/ (- 1 (* 5 (* v v))) (- (* v v) 1))))