\sin \left(x + \varepsilon\right) - \sin x
\mathsf{fma}\left(\sin x, \log \left(\sqrt{e^{\cos \varepsilon - 1}}\right) + \log \left(\sqrt{e^{\cos \varepsilon - 1}}\right), \cos x \cdot \sin \varepsilon\right)double code(double x, double eps) {
return (sin((x + eps)) - sin(x));
}
double code(double x, double eps) {
return fma(sin(x), (log(sqrt(exp((cos(eps) - 1.0)))) + log(sqrt(exp((cos(eps) - 1.0))))), (cos(x) * sin(eps)));
}




Bits error versus x




Bits error versus eps
Results
| Original | 36.9 |
|---|---|
| Target | 15.1 |
| Herbie | 0.5 |
Initial program 36.9
rmApplied sin-sum21.7
Applied associate--l+21.7
Taylor expanded around inf 21.7
Simplified0.4
rmApplied add-log-exp0.4
Applied add-log-exp0.4
Applied diff-log0.4
Simplified0.4
rmApplied add-sqr-sqrt0.5
Applied log-prod0.5
Final simplification0.5
herbie shell --seed 2020058 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (x eps)
:name "2sin (example 3.3)"
:precision binary64
:herbie-target
(* 2 (* (cos (+ x (/ eps 2))) (sin (/ eps 2))))
(- (sin (+ x eps)) (sin x)))