Average Error: 9.5 → 0.1
Time: 3.6s
Precision: 64
\[\left(\frac{1}{x + 1} - \frac{2}{x}\right) + \frac{1}{x - 1}\]
↓
\[\frac{1}{\left(x + 1\right) \cdot x} \cdot \frac{2}{x - 1}\]
\left(\frac{1}{x + 1} - \frac{2}{x}\right) + \frac{1}{x - 1}
↓
\frac{1}{\left(x + 1\right) \cdot x} \cdot \frac{2}{x - 1}
double f(double x) {
        double r91290 = 1.0;
        double r91291 = x;
        double r91292 = r91291 + r91290;
        double r91293 = r91290 / r91292;
        double r91294 = 2.0;
        double r91295 = r91294 / r91291;
        double r91296 = r91293 - r91295;
        double r91297 = r91291 - r91290;
        double r91298 = r91290 / r91297;
        double r91299 = r91296 + r91298;
        return r91299;
}
↓
double f(double x) {
        double r91300 = 1.0;
        double r91301 = x;
        double r91302 = 1.0;
        double r91303 = r91301 + r91302;
        double r91304 = r91303 * r91301;
        double r91305 = r91300 / r91304;
        double r91306 = 2.0;
        double r91307 = r91301 - r91302;
        double r91308 = r91306 / r91307;
        double r91309 = r91305 * r91308;
        return r91309;
}

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Target

Original9.5
Target0.3
Herbie0.1
\[\frac{2}{x \cdot \left(x \cdot x - 1\right)}\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 9.5

    \[\left(\frac{1}{x + 1} - \frac{2}{x}\right) + \frac{1}{x - 1}\]
  2. Using strategy rm

  3. Applied frac-sub25.8

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

  4. Applied frac-add25.3

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

  5. Taylor expanded around 0 0.3

    \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{2}}{\left(\left(x + 1\right) \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(x - 1\right)}\]
  6. Using strategy rm

  7. Applied *-un-lft-identity0.3

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

  8. Applied times-frac0.1

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

  9. Final simplification0.1

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020056 
(FPCore (x)
  :name "3frac (problem 3.3.3)"
  :precision binary64

  :herbie-target
  (/ 2 (* x (- (* x x) 1)))

  (+ (- (/ 1 (+ x 1)) (/ 2 x)) (/ 1 (- x 1))))