Average Error: 59.9 → 0.0
Time: 43.0s
Precision: 64
\[-0.026 \lt x \land x \lt 0.026\]
\[\frac{1}{x} - \frac{1}{\tan x}\]
↓
\[\frac{x}{\frac{\frac{1}{3} - \frac{1}{45} \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right)}{\frac{1}{9} - \left(\frac{1}{45} \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right)\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{45} \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right)\right)}} + \frac{2}{945} \cdot {x}^{5}\]
\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 r5706981 = 1.0;
        double r5706982 = x;
        double r5706983 = r5706981 / r5706982;
        double r5706984 = tan(r5706982);
        double r5706985 = r5706981 / r5706984;
        double r5706986 = r5706983 - r5706985;
        return r5706986;
}
↓
double f(double x) {
        double r5706987 = x;
        double r5706988 = 0.3333333333333333;
        double r5706989 = 0.022222222222222223;
        double r5706990 = r5706987 * r5706987;
        double r5706991 = r5706989 * r5706990;
        double r5706992 = r5706988 - r5706991;
        double r5706993 = 0.1111111111111111;
        double r5706994 = r5706991 * r5706991;
        double r5706995 = r5706993 - r5706994;
        double r5706996 = r5706992 / r5706995;
        double r5706997 = r5706987 / r5706996;
        double r5706998 = 0.0021164021164021165;
        double r5706999 = 5.0;
        double r5707000 = pow(r5706987, r5706999);
        double r5707001 = r5706998 * r5707000;
        double r5707002 = r5706997 + r5707001;
        return r5707002;
}

Error

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Results

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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 0.4

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

  3. Simplified0.4

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

  5. Applied flip-+0.4

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

  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 2019107 
(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))))