Average Error: 15.1 → 0.3
Time: 13.5s
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 r4941477 = N;
        double r4941478 = 1.0;
        double r4941479 = r4941477 + r4941478;
        double r4941480 = atan(r4941479);
        double r4941481 = atan(r4941477);
        double r4941482 = r4941480 - r4941481;
        return r4941482;
}
↓
double f(double N) {
        double r4941483 = 1.0;
        double r4941484 = N;
        double r4941485 = r4941484 + r4941483;
        double r4941486 = 1.0;
        double r4941487 = fma(r4941484, r4941485, r4941486);
        double r4941488 = atan2(r4941483, r4941487);
        return r4941488;
}

Error

Bits error versus N

Target

Original15.1
Target0.3
Herbie0.3
\[\tan^{-1} \left(\frac{1}{1 + N \cdot \left(N + 1\right)}\right)\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 15.1

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

  3. Applied diff-atan14.1

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

  4. Simplified0.3

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

  5. Simplified0.3

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

  6. Final simplification0.3

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2019172 +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)))