Average Error: 61.3 → 0.4
Time: 7.0s
Precision: 64
\[-1 \lt x \land x \lt 1\]
\[\frac{\log \left(1 - x\right)}{\log \left(1 + x\right)}\]
↓
\[\frac{\frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(x, 1, \log 1 - \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{{x}^{2}}{{1}^{2}}\right)}}{\frac{1}{\log 1 - \mathsf{fma}\left(1, x, \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{{x}^{2}}{{1}^{2}}\right)}}\]
\frac{\log \left(1 - x\right)}{\log \left(1 + x\right)}
↓
\frac{\frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(x, 1, \log 1 - \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{{x}^{2}}{{1}^{2}}\right)}}{\frac{1}{\log 1 - \mathsf{fma}\left(1, x, \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{{x}^{2}}{{1}^{2}}\right)}}
double f(double x) {
        double r86896 = 1.0;
        double r86897 = x;
        double r86898 = r86896 - r86897;
        double r86899 = log(r86898);
        double r86900 = r86896 + r86897;
        double r86901 = log(r86900);
        double r86902 = r86899 / r86901;
        return r86902;
}
↓
double f(double x) {
        double r86903 = 1.0;
        double r86904 = x;
        double r86905 = 1.0;
        double r86906 = log(r86905);
        double r86907 = 0.5;
        double r86908 = 2.0;
        double r86909 = pow(r86904, r86908);
        double r86910 = pow(r86905, r86908);
        double r86911 = r86909 / r86910;
        double r86912 = r86907 * r86911;
        double r86913 = r86906 - r86912;
        double r86914 = fma(r86904, r86905, r86913);
        double r86915 = r86903 / r86914;
        double r86916 = fma(r86905, r86904, r86912);
        double r86917 = r86906 - r86916;
        double r86918 = r86903 / r86917;
        double r86919 = r86915 / r86918;
        return r86919;
}

Error

Bits error versus x

Target

Original61.3
Target0.3
Herbie0.4
\[-\left(\left(\left(1 + x\right) + \frac{x \cdot x}{2}\right) + 0.416666666666666685 \cdot {x}^{3}\right)\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 61.3

    \[\frac{\log \left(1 - x\right)}{\log \left(1 + x\right)}\]

  2. Taylor expanded around 0 60.4

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

  3. Simplified60.4

    \[\leadsto \frac{\log \left(1 - x\right)}{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(x, 1, \log 1 - \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{{x}^{2}}{{1}^{2}}\right)}}\]

  4. Taylor expanded around 0 0.4

    \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\log 1 - \left(1 \cdot x + \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{{x}^{2}}{{1}^{2}}\right)}}{\mathsf{fma}\left(x, 1, \log 1 - \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{{x}^{2}}{{1}^{2}}\right)}\]

  5. Simplified0.4

    \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\log 1 - \mathsf{fma}\left(1, x, \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{{x}^{2}}{{1}^{2}}\right)}}{\mathsf{fma}\left(x, 1, \log 1 - \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{{x}^{2}}{{1}^{2}}\right)}\]
  6. Using strategy rm

  7. Applied clear-num0.4

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(x, 1, \log 1 - \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{{x}^{2}}{{1}^{2}}\right)}{\log 1 - \mathsf{fma}\left(1, x, \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{{x}^{2}}{{1}^{2}}\right)}}}\]
  8. Using strategy rm

  9. Applied div-inv0.6

    \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(x, 1, \log 1 - \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{{x}^{2}}{{1}^{2}}\right) \cdot \frac{1}{\log 1 - \mathsf{fma}\left(1, x, \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{{x}^{2}}{{1}^{2}}\right)}}}\]

  10. Applied associate-/r*0.4

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(x, 1, \log 1 - \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{{x}^{2}}{{1}^{2}}\right)}}{\frac{1}{\log 1 - \mathsf{fma}\left(1, x, \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{{x}^{2}}{{1}^{2}}\right)}}}\]

  11. Final simplification0.4

    \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(x, 1, \log 1 - \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{{x}^{2}}{{1}^{2}}\right)}}{\frac{1}{\log 1 - \mathsf{fma}\left(1, x, \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{{x}^{2}}{{1}^{2}}\right)}}\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020027 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (x)
  :name "qlog (example 3.10)"
  :precision binary64
  :pre (and (< -1 x) (< x 1))

  :herbie-target
  (- (+ (+ (+ 1 x) (/ (* x x) 2)) (* 0.4166666666666667 (pow x 3))))

  (/ (log (- 1 x)) (log (+ 1 x))))