Average Error: 14.2 → 0.1
Time: 2.1s
Precision: 64
\[\frac{1}{x + 1} - \frac{1}{x - 1}\]
↓
\[\frac{\frac{1 \cdot \left(-2\right)}{x + 1}}{x - 1}\]
\frac{1}{x + 1} - \frac{1}{x - 1}
↓
\frac{\frac{1 \cdot \left(-2\right)}{x + 1}}{x - 1}
double f(double x) {
        double r103465 = 1.0;
        double r103466 = x;
        double r103467 = r103466 + r103465;
        double r103468 = r103465 / r103467;
        double r103469 = r103466 - r103465;
        double r103470 = r103465 / r103469;
        double r103471 = r103468 - r103470;
        return r103471;
}
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double f(double x) {
        double r103472 = 1.0;
        double r103473 = 2.0;
        double r103474 = -r103473;
        double r103475 = r103472 * r103474;
        double r103476 = x;
        double r103477 = r103476 + r103472;
        double r103478 = r103475 / r103477;
        double r103479 = r103476 - r103472;
        double r103480 = r103478 / r103479;
        return r103480;
}

Error

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Derivation

  1. Initial program 14.2

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

  3. Applied frac-sub13.6

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

  4. Simplified13.6

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

  5. Simplified13.6

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

  6. Taylor expanded around 0 0.4

    \[\leadsto \frac{1 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(-2\right)}}{x \cdot x - 1 \cdot 1}\]
  7. Using strategy rm

  8. Applied difference-of-squares0.4

    \[\leadsto \frac{1 \cdot \left(-2\right)}{\color{blue}{\left(x + 1\right) \cdot \left(x - 1\right)}}\]

  9. Applied associate-/r*0.1

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1 \cdot \left(-2\right)}{x + 1}}{x - 1}}\]

  10. Final simplification0.1

    \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{1 \cdot \left(-2\right)}{x + 1}}{x - 1}\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2019353 
(FPCore (x)
  :name "Asymptote A"
  :precision binary64
  (- (/ 1 (+ x 1)) (/ 1 (- x 1))))