Average Error: 0.2 → 0.1
Time: 2.6s
Precision: 64
\[\left(x \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(3 - x \cdot 2\right)\]
↓
\[\mathsf{fma}\left(x \cdot x, 3, -2 \cdot {x}^{3}\right)\]
\left(x \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(3 - x \cdot 2\right)
↓
\mathsf{fma}\left(x \cdot x, 3, -2 \cdot {x}^{3}\right)
double f(double x) {
        double r857321 = x;
        double r857322 = r857321 * r857321;
        double r857323 = 3.0;
        double r857324 = 2.0;
        double r857325 = r857321 * r857324;
        double r857326 = r857323 - r857325;
        double r857327 = r857322 * r857326;
        return r857327;
}
↓
double f(double x) {
        double r857328 = x;
        double r857329 = r857328 * r857328;
        double r857330 = 3.0;
        double r857331 = 2.0;
        double r857332 = 3.0;
        double r857333 = pow(r857328, r857332);
        double r857334 = r857331 * r857333;
        double r857335 = -r857334;
        double r857336 = fma(r857329, r857330, r857335);
        return r857336;
}

Error

Bits error versus x

Target

Original0.2
Target0.2
Herbie0.1
\[x \cdot \left(x \cdot \left(3 - x \cdot 2\right)\right)\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 0.2

    \[\left(x \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(3 - x \cdot 2\right)\]
  2. Using strategy rm

  3. Applied sub-neg0.2

    \[\leadsto \left(x \cdot x\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(3 + \left(-x \cdot 2\right)\right)}\]

  4. Applied distribute-lft-in0.2

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(x \cdot x\right) \cdot 3 + \left(x \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(-x \cdot 2\right)}\]

  5. Simplified0.1

    \[\leadsto \left(x \cdot x\right) \cdot 3 + \color{blue}{\left(-2 \cdot {x}^{3}\right)}\]
  6. Using strategy rm

  7. Applied fma-def0.1

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(x \cdot x, 3, -2 \cdot {x}^{3}\right)}\]

  8. Final simplification0.1

    \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(x \cdot x, 3, -2 \cdot {x}^{3}\right)\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2019353 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (x)
  :name "Data.Spline.Key:interpolateKeys from smoothie-0.4.0.2"
  :precision binary64

  :herbie-target
  (* x (* x (- 3 (* x 2))))

  (* (* x x) (- 3 (* x 2))))