Average Error: 59.8 → 0.4
Time: 18.3s
Precision: 64
\[-0.0259999999999999988 \lt x \land x \lt 0.0259999999999999988\]
\[\frac{1}{x} - \frac{1}{\tan x}\]
↓
\[\mathsf{fma}\left(0.0222222222222222231, {x}^{3}, \mathsf{fma}\left(0.00211640211640211654, {x}^{5}, 0.333333333333333315 \cdot x\right)\right)\]
\frac{1}{x} - \frac{1}{\tan x}
↓
\mathsf{fma}\left(0.0222222222222222231, {x}^{3}, \mathsf{fma}\left(0.00211640211640211654, {x}^{5}, 0.333333333333333315 \cdot x\right)\right)
double f(double x) {
        double r150248 = 1.0;
        double r150249 = x;
        double r150250 = r150248 / r150249;
        double r150251 = tan(r150249);
        double r150252 = r150248 / r150251;
        double r150253 = r150250 - r150252;
        return r150253;
}
↓
double f(double x) {
        double r150254 = 0.022222222222222223;
        double r150255 = x;
        double r150256 = 3.0;
        double r150257 = pow(r150255, r150256);
        double r150258 = 0.0021164021164021165;
        double r150259 = 5.0;
        double r150260 = pow(r150255, r150259);
        double r150261 = 0.3333333333333333;
        double r150262 = r150261 * r150255;
        double r150263 = fma(r150258, r150260, r150262);
        double r150264 = fma(r150254, r150257, r150263);
        return r150264;
}

Error

Bits error versus x

Target

Original59.8
Target0.1
Herbie0.4
\[\begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\left|x\right| \lt 0.0259999999999999988:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{x}{3} \cdot \left(1 + \frac{x \cdot x}{15}\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{x} - \frac{1}{\tan x}\\ \end{array}\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 59.8

    \[\frac{1}{x} - \frac{1}{\tan x}\]

  2. Taylor expanded around 0 0.4

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{0.0222222222222222231 \cdot {x}^{3} + \left(0.00211640211640211654 \cdot {x}^{5} + 0.333333333333333315 \cdot x\right)}\]

  3. Simplified0.4

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(0.0222222222222222231, {x}^{3}, \mathsf{fma}\left(0.00211640211640211654, {x}^{5}, 0.333333333333333315 \cdot x\right)\right)}\]

  4. Final simplification0.4

    \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(0.0222222222222222231, {x}^{3}, \mathsf{fma}\left(0.00211640211640211654, {x}^{5}, 0.333333333333333315 \cdot x\right)\right)\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020036 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (x)
  :name "invcot (example 3.9)"
  :precision binary64
  :pre (and (< -0.026 x) (< x 0.026))

  :herbie-target
  (if (< (fabs x) 0.026) (* (/ x 3) (+ 1 (/ (* x x) 15))) (- (/ 1 x) (/ 1 (tan x))))

  (- (/ 1 x) (/ 1 (tan x))))