Average Error: 12.2 → 3.1
Time: 2.6s
Precision: 64
\[\frac{x \cdot \left(y - z\right)}{y}\]
\[\frac{x}{\frac{y}{y - z}}\]
\frac{x \cdot \left(y - z\right)}{y}
\frac{x}{\frac{y}{y - z}}
double code(double x, double y, double z) {
	return ((x * (y - z)) / y);
}
double code(double x, double y, double z) {
	return (x / (y / (y - z)));
}

Error

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Target

Original12.2
Target3.0
Herbie3.1
\[\begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;z \lt -2.060202331921739 \cdot 10^{104}:\\ \;\;\;\;x - \frac{z \cdot x}{y}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;z \lt 1.69397660138285259 \cdot 10^{213}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{x}{\frac{y}{y - z}}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(y - z\right) \cdot \frac{x}{y}\\ \end{array}\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 12.2

    \[\frac{x \cdot \left(y - z\right)}{y}\]
  2. Using strategy rm
  3. Applied associate-/l*3.1

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{x}{\frac{y}{y - z}}}\]
  4. Final simplification3.1

    \[\leadsto \frac{x}{\frac{y}{y - z}}\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020100 
(FPCore (x y z)
  :name "Diagrams.Backend.Cairo.Internal:setTexture from diagrams-cairo-1.3.0.3"
  :precision binary64

  :herbie-target
  (if (< z -2.060202331921739e+104) (- x (/ (* z x) y)) (if (< z 1.6939766013828526e+213) (/ x (/ y (- y z))) (* (- y z) (/ x y))))

  (/ (* x (- y z)) y))