Average Error: 14.9 → 0.4
Time: 12.3s
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 r4809535 = N;
        double r4809536 = 1.0;
        double r4809537 = r4809535 + r4809536;
        double r4809538 = atan(r4809537);
        double r4809539 = atan(r4809535);
        double r4809540 = r4809538 - r4809539;
        return r4809540;
}
↓
double f(double N) {
        double r4809541 = 1.0;
        double r4809542 = N;
        double r4809543 = r4809542 + r4809541;
        double r4809544 = 1.0;
        double r4809545 = fma(r4809542, r4809543, r4809544);
        double r4809546 = atan2(r4809541, r4809545);
        return r4809546;
}

Error

Bits error versus N

Target

Original14.9
Target0.4
Herbie0.4
\[\tan^{-1} \left(\frac{1}{1 + N \cdot \left(N + 1\right)}\right)\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 14.9

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

  3. Applied diff-atan13.8

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

  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 2019171 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (N)
  :name "2atan (example 3.5)"

  :herbie-target
  (atan (/ 1.0 (+ 1.0 (* N (+ N 1.0)))))

  (- (atan (+ N 1.0)) (atan N)))