Average Error: 14.8 → 0.4
Time: 15.3s
Precision: 64
\[\tan^{-1} \left(N + 1\right) - \tan^{-1} N\]
↓
\[\tan^{-1}_* \frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(N, N + 1, 1\right)}\]
\tan^{-1} \left(N + 1\right) - \tan^{-1} N
↓
\tan^{-1}_* \frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(N, N + 1, 1\right)}
double f(double N) {
        double r5127412 = N;
        double r5127413 = 1.0;
        double r5127414 = r5127412 + r5127413;
        double r5127415 = atan(r5127414);
        double r5127416 = atan(r5127412);
        double r5127417 = r5127415 - r5127416;
        return r5127417;
}
↓
double f(double N) {
        double r5127418 = 1.0;
        double r5127419 = N;
        double r5127420 = r5127419 + r5127418;
        double r5127421 = fma(r5127419, r5127420, r5127418);
        double r5127422 = atan2(r5127418, r5127421);
        return r5127422;
}

Error

Bits error versus N

Target

Original14.8
Target0.4
Herbie0.4
\[\tan^{-1} \left(\frac{1}{1 + N \cdot \left(N + 1\right)}\right)\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 14.8

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

  3. Applied diff-atan13.7

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

  4. Simplified0.4

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

  5. Simplified0.4

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

  6. Final simplification0.4

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2019149 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (N)
  :name "2atan (example 3.5)"

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

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