Average Error: 14.3 → 0.1
Time: 2.2s
Precision: 64
\[\frac{1}{x + 1} - \frac{1}{x - 1}\]
\[\frac{\frac{1 \cdot \left(-2\right)}{x + 1}}{x - 1}\]
\frac{1}{x + 1} - \frac{1}{x - 1}
\frac{\frac{1 \cdot \left(-2\right)}{x + 1}}{x - 1}
double f(double x) {
        double r270120 = 1.0;
        double r270121 = x;
        double r270122 = r270121 + r270120;
        double r270123 = r270120 / r270122;
        double r270124 = r270121 - r270120;
        double r270125 = r270120 / r270124;
        double r270126 = r270123 - r270125;
        return r270126;
}

double f(double x) {
        double r270127 = 1.0;
        double r270128 = 2.0;
        double r270129 = -r270128;
        double r270130 = r270127 * r270129;
        double r270131 = x;
        double r270132 = r270131 + r270127;
        double r270133 = r270130 / r270132;
        double r270134 = r270131 - r270127;
        double r270135 = r270133 / r270134;
        return r270135;
}

Error

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Derivation

  1. Initial program 14.3

    \[\frac{1}{x + 1} - \frac{1}{x - 1}\]
  2. Using strategy rm
  3. Applied frac-sub13.7

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1 \cdot \left(x - 1\right) - \left(x + 1\right) \cdot 1}{\left(x + 1\right) \cdot \left(x - 1\right)}}\]
  4. Simplified13.7

    \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{1 \cdot \left(\left(x - 1\right) - \left(x + 1\right)\right)}}{\left(x + 1\right) \cdot \left(x - 1\right)}\]
  5. Simplified13.7

    \[\leadsto \frac{1 \cdot \left(\left(x - 1\right) - \left(x + 1\right)\right)}{\color{blue}{x \cdot x - 1 \cdot 1}}\]
  6. Taylor expanded around 0 0.4

    \[\leadsto \frac{1 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(-2\right)}}{x \cdot x - 1 \cdot 1}\]
  7. Using strategy rm
  8. Applied difference-of-squares0.4

    \[\leadsto \frac{1 \cdot \left(-2\right)}{\color{blue}{\left(x + 1\right) \cdot \left(x - 1\right)}}\]
  9. Applied associate-/r*0.1

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1 \cdot \left(-2\right)}{x + 1}}{x - 1}}\]
  10. Final simplification0.1

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020036 
(FPCore (x)
  :name "Asymptote A"
  :precision binary64
  (- (/ 1 (+ x 1)) (/ 1 (- x 1))))