Average Error: 8.4 → 0.1
Time: 1.7s
Precision: 64
\[\frac{x \cdot y}{y + 1}\]
↓
\[\frac{x}{\frac{y + 1}{y}}\]
\frac{x \cdot y}{y + 1}
↓
\frac{x}{\frac{y + 1}{y}}
double code(double x, double y) {
	return ((x * y) / (y + 1.0));
}
↓
double code(double x, double y) {
	return (x / ((y + 1.0) / y));
}

Error

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Target

Original8.4
Target0.0
Herbie0.1
\[\begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;y \lt -3693.84827882972468:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{x}{y \cdot y} - \left(\frac{x}{y} - x\right)\\ \mathbf{elif}\;y \lt 6799310503.41891003:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{x \cdot y}{y + 1}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{x}{y \cdot y} - \left(\frac{x}{y} - x\right)\\ \end{array}\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 8.4

    \[\frac{x \cdot y}{y + 1}\]
  2. Using strategy rm

  3. Applied associate-/l*0.1

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{x}{\frac{y + 1}{y}}}\]

  4. Final simplification0.1

    \[\leadsto \frac{x}{\frac{y + 1}{y}}\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020091 
(FPCore (x y)
  :name "Diagrams.Trail:splitAtParam  from diagrams-lib-1.3.0.3, B"
  :precision binary64

  :herbie-target
  (if (< y -3693.8482788297247) (- (/ x (* y y)) (- (/ x y) x)) (if (< y 6799310503.41891) (/ (* x y) (+ y 1)) (- (/ x (* y y)) (- (/ x y) x))))

  (/ (* x y) (+ y 1)))