Error

Derivation

1. Initial program 0.0

   \[\log \left(\frac{1}{x} + \frac{\sqrt{1 - x \cdot x}}{x}\right)\]
2. Using strategy rm

3. Applied add-sqr-sqrt0.0

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

4. Applied *-un-lft-identity0.0

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

5. Applied times-frac0.0

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

6. Applied add-sqr-sqrt0.0

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

7. Applied *-un-lft-identity0.0

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

8. Applied times-frac0.0

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

9. Applied distribute-lft-out0.0

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

10. Applied log-prod0.2

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

11. Final simplification0.2

    \[\leadsto \log \left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} + \frac{\sqrt{1 - x \cdot x}}{\sqrt{x}}\right) + \log \left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}}\right)\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2019100 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (x)
  :name "Hyperbolic arc-(co)secant"
  (log (+ (/ 1 x) (/ (sqrt (- 1 (* x x))) x))))