Average Error: 20.3 → 0.0
Time: 5.3s
Precision: binary64
\[\left(0 < x \land x < 1\right) \land y < 1\]
\[\frac{\left(x - y\right) \cdot \left(x + y\right)}{x \cdot x + y \cdot y} \]
↓
\[\mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{x - y}{\mathsf{hypot}\left(x, y\right)} \cdot \frac{x + y}{\mathsf{hypot}\left(x, y\right)}\right)\right) \]
\frac{\left(x - y\right) \cdot \left(x + y\right)}{x \cdot x + y \cdot y}
↓
\mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{x - y}{\mathsf{hypot}\left(x, y\right)} \cdot \frac{x + y}{\mathsf{hypot}\left(x, y\right)}\right)\right)

(FPCore (x y) :precision binary64 (/ (* (- x y) (+ x y)) (+ (* x x) (* y y))))
↓
(FPCore (x y)
 :precision binary64
 (expm1 (log1p (* (/ (- x y) (hypot x y)) (/ (+ x y) (hypot x y))))))
double code(double x, double y) {
	return ((x - y) * (x + y)) / ((x * x) + (y * y));
}
↓
double code(double x, double y) {
	return expm1(log1p(((x - y) / hypot(x, y)) * ((x + y) / hypot(x, y))));
}

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Target

Original20.3
Target0.1
Herbie0.0
\[\begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;0.5 < \left|\frac{x}{y}\right| \land \left|\frac{x}{y}\right| < 2:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\left(x - y\right) \cdot \left(x + y\right)}{x \cdot x + y \cdot y}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;1 - \frac{2}{1 + \frac{x}{y} \cdot \frac{x}{y}}\\ \end{array} \]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 20.3

    \[\frac{\left(x - y\right) \cdot \left(x + y\right)}{x \cdot x + y \cdot y} \]

  2. Simplified20.3

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(x - y\right) \cdot \left(x + y\right)}{\mathsf{fma}\left(x, x, y \cdot y\right)}} \]

  3. Applied add-sqr-sqrt_binary6420.3

    \[\leadsto \frac{\left(x - y\right) \cdot \left(x + y\right)}{\color{blue}{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(x, x, y \cdot y\right)} \cdot \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(x, x, y \cdot y\right)}}} \]

  4. Applied times-frac_binary6420.4

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{x - y}{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(x, x, y \cdot y\right)}} \cdot \frac{x + y}{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(x, x, y \cdot y\right)}}} \]

  5. Simplified20.4

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{x - y}{\mathsf{hypot}\left(x, y\right)}} \cdot \frac{x + y}{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(x, x, y \cdot y\right)}} \]

  6. Simplified0.0

    \[\leadsto \frac{x - y}{\mathsf{hypot}\left(x, y\right)} \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{x + y}{\mathsf{hypot}\left(x, y\right)}} \]

  7. Applied expm1-log1p-u_binary640.0

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{x - y}{\mathsf{hypot}\left(x, y\right)} \cdot \frac{x + y}{\mathsf{hypot}\left(x, y\right)}\right)\right)} \]

  8. Final simplification0.0

    \[\leadsto \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{x - y}{\mathsf{hypot}\left(x, y\right)} \cdot \frac{x + y}{\mathsf{hypot}\left(x, y\right)}\right)\right) \]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2022024 
(FPCore (x y)
  :name "Kahan p9 Example"
  :precision binary64
  :pre (and (and (< 0.0 x) (< x 1.0)) (< y 1.0))

  :herbie-target
  (if (and (< 0.5 (fabs (/ x y))) (< (fabs (/ x y)) 2.0)) (/ (* (- x y) (+ x y)) (+ (* x x) (* y y))) (- 1.0 (/ 2.0 (+ 1.0 (* (/ x y) (/ x y))))))

  (/ (* (- x y) (+ x y)) (+ (* x x) (* y y))))