Average Error: 14.7 → 0.3
Time: 2.2s
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 r149670 = N;
        double r149671 = 1.0;
        double r149672 = r149670 + r149671;
        double r149673 = atan(r149672);
        double r149674 = atan(r149670);
        double r149675 = r149673 - r149674;
        return r149675;
}
↓
double f(double N) {
        double r149676 = 1.0;
        double r149677 = N;
        double r149678 = r149677 + r149676;
        double r149679 = 1.0;
        double r149680 = fma(r149677, r149678, r149679);
        double r149681 = atan2(r149676, r149680);
        return r149681;
}

Error

Bits error versus N

Target

Original14.7
Target0.3
Herbie0.3
\[\tan^{-1} \left(\frac{1}{1 + N \cdot \left(N + 1\right)}\right)\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 14.7

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

  3. Applied diff-atan13.5

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

  4. Simplified0.3

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

  5. Simplified0.3

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

  6. Final simplification0.3

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020024 +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)))