Average Error: 61.5 → 0.4
Time: 9.9s
Precision: 64
\[-1 \lt x \land x \lt 1\]
\[\frac{\log \left(1 - x\right)}{\log \left(1 + x\right)}\]
↓
\[\frac{1}{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(x, 1, \log 1 - \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{{x}^{2}}{{1}^{2}}\right)}{\log 1 - \left(1 \cdot x + \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{{x}^{2}}{{1}^{2}}\right)}}\]
\frac{\log \left(1 - x\right)}{\log \left(1 + x\right)}
↓
\frac{1}{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(x, 1, \log 1 - \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{{x}^{2}}{{1}^{2}}\right)}{\log 1 - \left(1 \cdot x + \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{{x}^{2}}{{1}^{2}}\right)}}
double f(double x) {
        double r104924 = 1.0;
        double r104925 = x;
        double r104926 = r104924 - r104925;
        double r104927 = log(r104926);
        double r104928 = r104924 + r104925;
        double r104929 = log(r104928);
        double r104930 = r104927 / r104929;
        return r104930;
}
↓
double f(double x) {
        double r104931 = 1.0;
        double r104932 = x;
        double r104933 = 1.0;
        double r104934 = log(r104933);
        double r104935 = 0.5;
        double r104936 = 2.0;
        double r104937 = pow(r104932, r104936);
        double r104938 = pow(r104933, r104936);
        double r104939 = r104937 / r104938;
        double r104940 = r104935 * r104939;
        double r104941 = r104934 - r104940;
        double r104942 = fma(r104932, r104933, r104941);
        double r104943 = r104933 * r104932;
        double r104944 = r104943 + r104940;
        double r104945 = r104934 - r104944;
        double r104946 = r104942 / r104945;
        double r104947 = r104931 / r104946;
        return r104947;
}

Error

Bits error versus x

Target

Original61.5
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 61.5

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

  2. Taylor expanded around 0 60.5

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

  3. Simplified60.5

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

  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. Using strategy rm

  6. Applied clear-num0.4

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

  7. Final simplification0.4

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020033 +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))))