Average Error: 15.4 → 0.4
Time: 2.1s
Precision: 64
\[\tan^{-1} \left(N + 1\right) - \tan^{-1} N\]
↓
\[\tan^{-1}_* \frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(N, N + 1, 1\right)}\]
\tan^{-1} \left(N + 1\right) - \tan^{-1} N
↓
\tan^{-1}_* \frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(N, N + 1, 1\right)}
double f(double N) {
        double r113491 = N;
        double r113492 = 1.0;
        double r113493 = r113491 + r113492;
        double r113494 = atan(r113493);
        double r113495 = atan(r113491);
        double r113496 = r113494 - r113495;
        return r113496;
}
↓
double f(double N) {
        double r113497 = 1.0;
        double r113498 = N;
        double r113499 = r113498 + r113497;
        double r113500 = 1.0;
        double r113501 = fma(r113498, r113499, r113500);
        double r113502 = atan2(r113497, r113501);
        return r113502;
}

Error

Bits error versus N

Target

Original15.4
Target0.4
Herbie0.4
\[\tan^{-1} \left(\frac{1}{1 + N \cdot \left(N + 1\right)}\right)\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 15.4

    \[\tan^{-1} \left(N + 1\right) - \tan^{-1} N\]
  2. Using strategy rm

  3. Applied diff-atan14.2

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\tan^{-1}_* \frac{\left(N + 1\right) - N}{1 + \left(N + 1\right) \cdot N}}\]

  4. Simplified0.4

    \[\leadsto \tan^{-1}_* \frac{\color{blue}{1}}{1 + \left(N + 1\right) \cdot N}\]

  5. Simplified0.4

    \[\leadsto \tan^{-1}_* \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(N, N + 1, 1\right)}}\]

  6. Final simplification0.4

    \[\leadsto \tan^{-1}_* \frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(N, N + 1, 1\right)}\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020049 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (N)
  :name "2atan (example 3.5)"
  :precision binary64

  :herbie-target
  (atan (/ 1 (+ 1 (* N (+ N 1)))))

  (- (atan (+ N 1)) (atan N)))