Average Error: 0.0 → 0.1
Time: 4.0s
Precision: 64
\[x - \frac{y}{1 + \frac{x \cdot y}{2}}\]
↓
\[x - \frac{1}{\frac{1 + \frac{x \cdot y}{2}}{y}}\]
x - \frac{y}{1 + \frac{x \cdot y}{2}}
↓
x - \frac{1}{\frac{1 + \frac{x \cdot y}{2}}{y}}
double code(double x, double y) {
	return (x - (y / (1.0 + ((x * y) / 2.0))));
}
↓
double code(double x, double y) {
	return (x - (1.0 / ((1.0 + ((x * y) / 2.0)) / y)));
}

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Derivation

  1. Initial program 0.0

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

  3. Applied clear-num0.1

    \[\leadsto x - \color{blue}{\frac{1}{\frac{1 + \frac{x \cdot y}{2}}{y}}}\]

  4. Final simplification0.1

    \[\leadsto x - \frac{1}{\frac{1 + \frac{x \cdot y}{2}}{y}}\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020105 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (x y)
  :name "Data.Number.Erf:$cinvnormcdf from erf-2.0.0.0, B"
  :precision binary64
  (- x (/ y (+ 1 (/ (* x y) 2)))))