Average Error: 36.1 → 29.0
Time: 4.1s
Precision: 64
\[\frac{\tan \left(\frac{x}{y \cdot 2}\right)}{\sin \left(\frac{x}{y \cdot 2}\right)}\]
↓
\[1\]
\frac{\tan \left(\frac{x}{y \cdot 2}\right)}{\sin \left(\frac{x}{y \cdot 2}\right)}
↓
1
double code(double x, double y) {
	return (tan((x / (y * 2.0))) / sin((x / (y * 2.0))));
}
↓
double code(double x, double y) {
	return 1.0;
}

Error

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Target

Original36.1
Target29.3
Herbie29.0
\[\begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;y \lt -1.23036909113069936 \cdot 10^{114}:\\ \;\;\;\;1\\ \mathbf{elif}\;y \lt -9.1028524068119138 \cdot 10^{-222}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sin \left(\frac{x}{y \cdot 2}\right)}{\sin \left(\frac{x}{y \cdot 2}\right) \cdot \log \left(e^{\cos \left(\frac{x}{y \cdot 2}\right)}\right)}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;1\\ \end{array}\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 36.1

    \[\frac{\tan \left(\frac{x}{y \cdot 2}\right)}{\sin \left(\frac{x}{y \cdot 2}\right)}\]

  2. Taylor expanded around 0 29.0

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{1}\]

  3. Final simplification29.0

    \[\leadsto 1\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020091 
(FPCore (x y)
  :name "Diagrams.TwoD.Layout.CirclePacking:approxRadius from diagrams-contrib-1.3.0.5"
  :precision binary64

  :herbie-target
  (if (< y -1.2303690911306994e+114) 1 (if (< y -9.102852406811914e-222) (/ (sin (/ x (* y 2))) (* (sin (/ x (* y 2))) (log (exp (cos (/ x (* y 2))))))) 1))

  (/ (tan (/ x (* y 2))) (sin (/ x (* y 2)))))