Average Error: 15.0 → 0.4
Time: 2.5s
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 r154214 = N;
        double r154215 = 1.0;
        double r154216 = r154214 + r154215;
        double r154217 = atan(r154216);
        double r154218 = atan(r154214);
        double r154219 = r154217 - r154218;
        return r154219;
}
↓
double f(double N) {
        double r154220 = 1.0;
        double r154221 = N;
        double r154222 = r154221 + r154220;
        double r154223 = 1.0;
        double r154224 = fma(r154221, r154222, r154223);
        double r154225 = atan2(r154220, r154224);
        return r154225;
}

Error

Bits error versus N

Target

Original15.0
Target0.4
Herbie0.4
\[\tan^{-1} \left(\frac{1}{1 + N \cdot \left(N + 1\right)}\right)\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 15.0

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

  3. Applied diff-atan13.7

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

  4. Simplified0.4

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

  5. Simplified0.4

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

  6. Final simplification0.4

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2019362 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (N)
  :name "2atan (example 3.5)"
  :precision binary64

  :herbie-target
  (atan (/ 1 (+ 1 (* N (+ N 1)))))

  (- (atan (+ N 1)) (atan N)))