Average Error: 59.9 → 0.0
Time: 44.4s
Precision: 64
\[\frac{1}{x} - \frac{1}{\tan x}\]
↓
\[\frac{x}{\frac{\frac{1}{3} - \frac{1}{45} \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right)}{\frac{1}{9} - \left(\frac{1}{45} \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right)\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{45} \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right)\right)}} + \frac{2}{945} \cdot {x}^{5}\]
double f(double x) {
        double r6530349 = 1.0;
        double r6530350 = x;
        double r6530351 = r6530349 / r6530350;
        double r6530352 = tan(r6530350);
        double r6530353 = r6530349 / r6530352;
        double r6530354 = r6530351 - r6530353;
        return r6530354;
}
↓
double f(double x) {
        double r6530355 = x;
        double r6530356 = 0.3333333333333333;
        double r6530357 = 0.022222222222222223;
        double r6530358 = r6530355 * r6530355;
        double r6530359 = r6530357 * r6530358;
        double r6530360 = r6530356 - r6530359;
        double r6530361 = 0.1111111111111111;
        double r6530362 = r6530359 * r6530359;
        double r6530363 = r6530361 - r6530362;
        double r6530364 = r6530360 / r6530363;
        double r6530365 = r6530355 / r6530364;
        double r6530366 = 0.0021164021164021165;
        double r6530367 = 5.0;
        double r6530368 = pow(r6530355, r6530367);
        double r6530369 = r6530366 * r6530368;
        double r6530370 = r6530365 + r6530369;
        return r6530370;
}


\frac{1}{x} - \frac{1}{\tan x}
↓
\frac{x}{\frac{\frac{1}{3} - \frac{1}{45} \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right)}{\frac{1}{9} - \left(\frac{1}{45} \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right)\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{45} \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right)\right)}} + \frac{2}{945} \cdot {x}^{5}

Error

Bits error versus x

Target

Original59.9
Target0.1
Herbie0.0
\[\begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\left|x\right| \lt 0.026:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{x}{3} \cdot \left(1 + \frac{x \cdot x}{15}\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{x} - \frac{1}{\tan x}\\ \end{array}\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 59.9

    \[\frac{1}{x} - \frac{1}{\tan x}\]

  2. Taylor expanded around 0 0.3

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{3} \cdot x + \left(\frac{1}{45} \cdot {x}^{3} + \frac{2}{945} \cdot {x}^{5}\right)}\]

  3. Simplified0.3

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{x \cdot \left(\frac{1}{3} + \frac{1}{45} \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right)\right) + {x}^{5} \cdot \frac{2}{945}}\]
  4. Using strategy rm

  5. Applied flip-+0.3

    \[\leadsto x \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{3} \cdot \frac{1}{3} - \left(\frac{1}{45} \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right)\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{45} \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right)\right)}{\frac{1}{3} - \frac{1}{45} \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right)}} + {x}^{5} \cdot \frac{2}{945}\]

  6. Applied associate-*r/0.3

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{x \cdot \left(\frac{1}{3} \cdot \frac{1}{3} - \left(\frac{1}{45} \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right)\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{45} \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right)\right)\right)}{\frac{1}{3} - \frac{1}{45} \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right)}} + {x}^{5} \cdot \frac{2}{945}\]
  7. Using strategy rm

  8. Applied associate-/l*0.0

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{x}{\frac{\frac{1}{3} - \frac{1}{45} \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right)}{\frac{1}{3} \cdot \frac{1}{3} - \left(\frac{1}{45} \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right)\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{45} \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right)\right)}}} + {x}^{5} \cdot \frac{2}{945}\]

  9. Final simplification0.0

    \[\leadsto \frac{x}{\frac{\frac{1}{3} - \frac{1}{45} \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right)}{\frac{1}{9} - \left(\frac{1}{45} \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right)\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{45} \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right)\right)}} + \frac{2}{945} \cdot {x}^{5}\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2019101 
(FPCore (x)
  :name "invcot (example 3.9)"
  :pre (and (< -0.026 x) (< x 0.026))

  :herbie-target
  (if (< (fabs x) 0.026) (* (/ x 3) (+ 1 (/ (* x x) 15))) (- (/ 1 x) (/ 1 (tan x))))

  (- (/ 1 x) (/ 1 (tan x))))