Average Error: 31.3 → 0.1
Time: 5.4s
Precision: binary64
\[\frac{1 - \cos x}{x \cdot x} \]
↓
\[\frac{1}{\frac{x}{\sin x}} \cdot \frac{\tan \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)}{x} \]
\frac{1 - \cos x}{x \cdot x}
↓
\frac{1}{\frac{x}{\sin x}} \cdot \frac{\tan \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)}{x}

(FPCore (x) :precision binary64 (/ (- 1.0 (cos x)) (* x x)))
↓
(FPCore (x)
 :precision binary64
 (* (/ 1.0 (/ x (sin x))) (/ (tan (/ x 2.0)) x)))
double code(double x) {
	return (1.0 - cos(x)) / (x * x);
}
↓
double code(double x) {
	return (1.0 / (x / sin(x))) * (tan(x / 2.0) / x);
}

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Derivation

  1. Initial program 31.3

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

  2. Applied flip--_binary6431.4

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

  3. Simplified15.8

    \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\color{blue}{\sin x \cdot \sin x}}{1 + \cos x}}{x \cdot x} \]

  4. Taylor expanded in x around inf 15.7

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

  5. Simplified0.1

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\sin x}{x} \cdot \frac{\tan \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)}{x}} \]

  6. Applied clear-num_binary640.1

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{\frac{x}{\sin x}}} \cdot \frac{\tan \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)}{x} \]

  7. Final simplification0.1

    \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{x}{\sin x}} \cdot \frac{\tan \left(\frac{x}{2}\right)}{x} \]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2022104 
(FPCore (x)
  :name "cos2 (problem 3.4.1)"
  :precision binary64
  (/ (- 1.0 (cos x)) (* x x)))