Average Error: 14.6 → 0.4
Time: 8.8s
Precision: 64
Internal Precision: 128
\[\tan^{-1} \left(N + 1\right) - \tan^{-1} N\]
↓
\[\tan^{-1}_* \frac{1}{(N \cdot \left(N + 1\right) + 1)_*}\]

Error

Bits error versus N

Target

Original14.6
Target0.4
Herbie0.4
\[\tan^{-1} \left(\frac{1}{1 + N \cdot \left(N + 1\right)}\right)\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 14.6

    \[\tan^{-1} \left(N + 1\right) - \tan^{-1} N\]
  2. Using strategy rm

  3. Applied diff-atan13.5

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\tan^{-1}_* \frac{\left(N + 1\right) - N}{1 + \left(N + 1\right) \cdot N}}\]

  4. Simplified0.4

    \[\leadsto \tan^{-1}_* \frac{\color{blue}{1}}{1 + \left(N + 1\right) \cdot N}\]

  5. Simplified0.4

    \[\leadsto \tan^{-1}_* \frac{1}{\color{blue}{(N \cdot \left(N + 1\right) + 1)_*}}\]

  6. Final simplification0.4

    \[\leadsto \tan^{-1}_* \frac{1}{(N \cdot \left(N + 1\right) + 1)_*}\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2019068 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (N)
  :name "2atan (example 3.5)"

  :herbie-target
  (atan (/ 1 (+ 1 (* N (+ N 1)))))

  (- (atan (+ N 1)) (atan N)))