Average Error: 31.3 → 0.4
Time: 4.3s
Precision: 64
\[\frac{1 - \cos x}{x \cdot x}\]
↓
\[\begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;x \le -0.0323079859093642272:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{{1}^{3} - {\left(\cos x\right)}^{3}}{\left(\cos x \cdot \left(\cos x + 1\right) + 1 \cdot 1\right) \cdot {x}^{2}}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;x \le 0.0313796160804084914:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\frac{1}{720} \cdot {x}^{4} + \frac{1}{2}\right) - \frac{1}{24} \cdot {x}^{2}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\frac{1}{x}}{x} - \frac{\frac{\cos x}{x}}{x}\\ \end{array}\]
\frac{1 - \cos x}{x \cdot x}
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\begin{array}{l}
\mathbf{if}\;x \le -0.0323079859093642272:\\
\;\;\;\;\frac{{1}^{3} - {\left(\cos x\right)}^{3}}{\left(\cos x \cdot \left(\cos x + 1\right) + 1 \cdot 1\right) \cdot {x}^{2}}\\

\mathbf{elif}\;x \le 0.0313796160804084914:\\
\;\;\;\;\left(\frac{1}{720} \cdot {x}^{4} + \frac{1}{2}\right) - \frac{1}{24} \cdot {x}^{2}\\

\mathbf{else}:\\
\;\;\;\;\frac{\frac{1}{x}}{x} - \frac{\frac{\cos x}{x}}{x}\\

\end{array}
double code(double x) {
	return ((1.0 - cos(x)) / (x * x));
}
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double code(double x) {
	double VAR;
	if ((x <= -0.03230798590936423)) {
		VAR = ((pow(1.0, 3.0) - pow(cos(x), 3.0)) / (((cos(x) * (cos(x) + 1.0)) + (1.0 * 1.0)) * pow(x, 2.0)));
	} else {
		double VAR_1;
		if ((x <= 0.03137961608040849)) {
			VAR_1 = (((0.001388888888888889 * pow(x, 4.0)) + 0.5) - (0.041666666666666664 * pow(x, 2.0)));
		} else {
			VAR_1 = (((1.0 / x) / x) - ((cos(x) / x) / x));
		}
		VAR = VAR_1;
	}
	return VAR;
}

Error

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Results

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Derivation

  1. Split input into 3 regimes

  2. if x < -0.03230798590936423

    1. Initial program 1.1

      \[\frac{1 - \cos x}{x \cdot x}\]
    2. Using strategy rm

    3. Applied flip3--1.1

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{{1}^{3} - {\left(\cos x\right)}^{3}}{1 \cdot 1 + \left(\cos x \cdot \cos x + 1 \cdot \cos x\right)}}}{x \cdot x}\]

    4. Applied associate-/l/1.1

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{{1}^{3} - {\left(\cos x\right)}^{3}}{\left(x \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(1 \cdot 1 + \left(\cos x \cdot \cos x + 1 \cdot \cos x\right)\right)}}\]

    5. Simplified1.1

      \[\leadsto \frac{{1}^{3} - {\left(\cos x\right)}^{3}}{\color{blue}{\left(\cos x \cdot \left(\cos x + 1\right) + 1 \cdot 1\right) \cdot {x}^{2}}}\]

    if -0.03230798590936423 < x < 0.03137961608040849

    1. Initial program 62.3

      \[\frac{1 - \cos x}{x \cdot x}\]

    2. Taylor expanded around 0 0.0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{720} \cdot {x}^{4} + \frac{1}{2}\right) - \frac{1}{24} \cdot {x}^{2}}\]

    if 0.03137961608040849 < x

    1. Initial program 1.0

      \[\frac{1 - \cos x}{x \cdot x}\]
    2. Using strategy rm

    3. Applied associate-/r*0.4

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1 - \cos x}{x}}{x}}\]
    4. Using strategy rm

    5. Applied div-sub0.6

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{x} - \frac{\cos x}{x}}}{x}\]

    6. Applied div-sub0.6

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{x}}{x} - \frac{\frac{\cos x}{x}}{x}}\]
  3. Recombined 3 regimes into one program.

  4. Final simplification0.4

    \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;x \le -0.0323079859093642272:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{{1}^{3} - {\left(\cos x\right)}^{3}}{\left(\cos x \cdot \left(\cos x + 1\right) + 1 \cdot 1\right) \cdot {x}^{2}}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;x \le 0.0313796160804084914:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\frac{1}{720} \cdot {x}^{4} + \frac{1}{2}\right) - \frac{1}{24} \cdot {x}^{2}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\frac{1}{x}}{x} - \frac{\frac{\cos x}{x}}{x}\\ \end{array}\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020103 
(FPCore (x)
  :name "cos2 (problem 3.4.1)"
  :precision binary64
  (/ (- 1 (cos x)) (* x x)))