Average Error: 0.2 → 0.1
Time: 2.7s
Precision: 64
\[\left(3 \cdot \left(2 - x \cdot 3\right)\right) \cdot x\]
↓
\[\mathsf{fma}\left(6, x, -9 \cdot {x}^{2}\right)\]
\left(3 \cdot \left(2 - x \cdot 3\right)\right) \cdot x
↓
\mathsf{fma}\left(6, x, -9 \cdot {x}^{2}\right)
double f(double x) {
        double r649290 = 3.0;
        double r649291 = 2.0;
        double r649292 = x;
        double r649293 = r649292 * r649290;
        double r649294 = r649291 - r649293;
        double r649295 = r649290 * r649294;
        double r649296 = r649295 * r649292;
        return r649296;
}
↓
double f(double x) {
        double r649297 = 6.0;
        double r649298 = x;
        double r649299 = 9.0;
        double r649300 = 2.0;
        double r649301 = pow(r649298, r649300);
        double r649302 = r649299 * r649301;
        double r649303 = -r649302;
        double r649304 = fma(r649297, r649298, r649303);
        return r649304;
}

Error

Bits error versus x

Target

Original0.2
Target0.2
Herbie0.1
\[6 \cdot x - 9 \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right)\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 0.2

    \[\left(3 \cdot \left(2 - x \cdot 3\right)\right) \cdot x\]
  2. Using strategy rm

  3. Applied flip--0.3

    \[\leadsto \left(3 \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{2 \cdot 2 - \left(x \cdot 3\right) \cdot \left(x \cdot 3\right)}{2 + x \cdot 3}}\right) \cdot x\]

  4. Simplified0.3

    \[\leadsto \left(3 \cdot \frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(3, x, 2\right) \cdot \left(2 - 3 \cdot x\right)}}{2 + x \cdot 3}\right) \cdot x\]

  5. Simplified0.3

    \[\leadsto \left(3 \cdot \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(3, x, 2\right) \cdot \left(2 - 3 \cdot x\right)}{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(3, x, 2\right)}}\right) \cdot x\]

  6. Taylor expanded around 0 0.2

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{6 \cdot x - 9 \cdot {x}^{2}}\]
  7. Using strategy rm

  8. Applied fma-neg0.1

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(6, x, -9 \cdot {x}^{2}\right)}\]

  9. Final simplification0.1

    \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(6, x, -9 \cdot {x}^{2}\right)\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020089 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (x)
  :name "Diagrams.Tangent:$catParam from diagrams-lib-1.3.0.3, E"
  :precision binary64

  :herbie-target
  (- (* 6 x) (* 9 (* x x)))

  (* (* 3 (- 2 (* x 3))) x))