Average Error: 31.4 → 0.1
Time: 13.1s
Precision: 64
\[\frac{1 - \cos x}{x \cdot x}\]
↓
\[\frac{\tan \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)}{x} \cdot \frac{\sin x}{x}\]
\frac{1 - \cos x}{x \cdot x}
↓
\frac{\tan \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)}{x} \cdot \frac{\sin x}{x}
double f(double x) {
        double r402492 = 1.0;
        double r402493 = x;
        double r402494 = cos(r402493);
        double r402495 = r402492 - r402494;
        double r402496 = r402493 * r402493;
        double r402497 = r402495 / r402496;
        return r402497;
}
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double f(double x) {
        double r402498 = x;
        double r402499 = 2.0;
        double r402500 = r402498 / r402499;
        double r402501 = tan(r402500);
        double r402502 = r402501 / r402498;
        double r402503 = sin(r402498);
        double r402504 = r402503 / r402498;
        double r402505 = r402502 * r402504;
        return r402505;
}

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Derivation

  1. Initial program 31.4

    \[\frac{1 - \cos x}{x \cdot x}\]
  2. Using strategy rm

  3. Applied flip--31.5

    \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{1 \cdot 1 - \cos x \cdot \cos x}{1 + \cos x}}}{x \cdot x}\]

  4. Simplified15.8

    \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\color{blue}{\sin x \cdot \sin x}}{1 + \cos x}}{x \cdot x}\]
  5. Using strategy rm

  6. Applied *-un-lft-identity15.8

    \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\sin x \cdot \sin x}{\color{blue}{1 \cdot \left(1 + \cos x\right)}}}{x \cdot x}\]

  7. Applied times-frac15.8

    \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\sin x}{1} \cdot \frac{\sin x}{1 + \cos x}}}{x \cdot x}\]

  8. Applied times-frac0.3

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{\sin x}{1}}{x} \cdot \frac{\frac{\sin x}{1 + \cos x}}{x}}\]

  9. Simplified0.3

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\sin x}{x}} \cdot \frac{\frac{\sin x}{1 + \cos x}}{x}\]

  10. Simplified0.1

    \[\leadsto \frac{\sin x}{x} \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{\tan \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)}{x}}\]

  11. Final simplification0.1

    \[\leadsto \frac{\tan \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)}{x} \cdot \frac{\sin x}{x}\]

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  :name "cos2 (problem 3.4.1)"
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