Average Error: 61.5 → 0.4
Time: 13.8s
Precision: 64
\[-1 \lt x \land x \lt 1\]
\[\frac{\log \left(1 - x\right)}{\log \left(1 + x\right)}\]
↓
\[\frac{1}{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(1, x, \log 1\right) - \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{{x}^{2}}{{1}^{2}}}{\log 1 - \mathsf{fma}\left(1, x, \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{{x}^{2}}{{1}^{2}}\right)}}\]
\frac{\log \left(1 - x\right)}{\log \left(1 + x\right)}
↓
\frac{1}{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(1, x, \log 1\right) - \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{{x}^{2}}{{1}^{2}}}{\log 1 - \mathsf{fma}\left(1, x, \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{{x}^{2}}{{1}^{2}}\right)}}
double f(double x) {
        double r78224 = 1.0;
        double r78225 = x;
        double r78226 = r78224 - r78225;
        double r78227 = log(r78226);
        double r78228 = r78224 + r78225;
        double r78229 = log(r78228);
        double r78230 = r78227 / r78229;
        return r78230;
}
↓
double f(double x) {
        double r78231 = 1.0;
        double r78232 = 1.0;
        double r78233 = x;
        double r78234 = log(r78232);
        double r78235 = fma(r78232, r78233, r78234);
        double r78236 = 0.5;
        double r78237 = 2.0;
        double r78238 = pow(r78233, r78237);
        double r78239 = pow(r78232, r78237);
        double r78240 = r78238 / r78239;
        double r78241 = r78236 * r78240;
        double r78242 = r78235 - r78241;
        double r78243 = fma(r78232, r78233, r78241);
        double r78244 = r78234 - r78243;
        double r78245 = r78242 / r78244;
        double r78246 = r78231 / r78245;
        return r78246;
}

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

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

  4. Taylor expanded around 0 0.4

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

  5. Simplified0.4

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

  7. Applied clear-num0.4

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

  8. Final simplification0.4

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020047 +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))))