2tan (problem 3.3.2)

Percentage Accurate: 62.8% → 99.9%
Time: 37.6s
Alternatives: 6
Speedup: 205.0×

Specification

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\[\left(\left(-10000 \leq x \land x \leq 10000\right) \land 10^{-16} \cdot \left|x\right| < \varepsilon\right) \land \varepsilon < \left|x\right|\]
\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \tan \left(x + \varepsilon\right) - \tan x \end{array} \]
(FPCore (x eps) :precision binary64 (- (tan (+ x eps)) (tan x)))
double code(double x, double eps) {
	return tan((x + eps)) - tan(x);
}
real(8) function code(x, eps)
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    real(8), intent (in) :: eps
    code = tan((x + eps)) - tan(x)
end function
public static double code(double x, double eps) {
	return Math.tan((x + eps)) - Math.tan(x);
}
def code(x, eps):
	return math.tan((x + eps)) - math.tan(x)
function code(x, eps)
	return Float64(tan(Float64(x + eps)) - tan(x))
end
function tmp = code(x, eps)
	tmp = tan((x + eps)) - tan(x);
end
code[x_, eps_] := N[(N[Tan[N[(x + eps), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - N[Tan[x], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\tan \left(x + \varepsilon\right) - \tan x
\end{array}

Sampling outcomes in binary64 precision:

Local Percentage Accuracy vs ?

The average percentage accuracy by input value. Horizontal axis shows value of an input variable; the variable is choosen in the title. Vertical axis is accuracy; higher is better. Red represent the original program, while blue represents Herbie's suggestion. These can be toggled with buttons below the plot. The line is an average while dots represent individual samples.

Accuracy vs Speed?

Herbie found 6 alternatives:

AlternativeAccuracySpeedup
The accuracy (vertical axis) and speed (horizontal axis) of each alternatives. Up and to the right is better. The red square shows the initial program, and each blue circle shows an alternative.The line shows the best available speed-accuracy tradeoffs.

Initial Program: 62.8% accurate, 1.0× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \tan \left(x + \varepsilon\right) - \tan x \end{array} \]
(FPCore (x eps) :precision binary64 (- (tan (+ x eps)) (tan x)))
double code(double x, double eps) {
	return tan((x + eps)) - tan(x);
}
real(8) function code(x, eps)
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    real(8), intent (in) :: eps
    code = tan((x + eps)) - tan(x)
end function
public static double code(double x, double eps) {
	return Math.tan((x + eps)) - Math.tan(x);
}
def code(x, eps):
	return math.tan((x + eps)) - math.tan(x)
function code(x, eps)
	return Float64(tan(Float64(x + eps)) - tan(x))
end
function tmp = code(x, eps)
	tmp = tan((x + eps)) - tan(x);
end
code[x_, eps_] := N[(N[Tan[N[(x + eps), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - N[Tan[x], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\tan \left(x + \varepsilon\right) - \tan x
\end{array}

Alternative 1: 99.9% accurate, 0.7× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\sin \varepsilon}{\cos \left(\varepsilon + x\right) \cdot \cos x} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (x eps) :precision binary64 (/ (sin eps) (* (cos (+ eps x)) (cos x))))
double code(double x, double eps) {
	return sin(eps) / (cos((eps + x)) * cos(x));
}
real(8) function code(x, eps)
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    real(8), intent (in) :: eps
    code = sin(eps) / (cos((eps + x)) * cos(x))
end function
public static double code(double x, double eps) {
	return Math.sin(eps) / (Math.cos((eps + x)) * Math.cos(x));
}
def code(x, eps):
	return math.sin(eps) / (math.cos((eps + x)) * math.cos(x))
function code(x, eps)
	return Float64(sin(eps) / Float64(cos(Float64(eps + x)) * cos(x)))
end
function tmp = code(x, eps)
	tmp = sin(eps) / (cos((eps + x)) * cos(x));
end
code[x_, eps_] := N[(N[Sin[eps], $MachinePrecision] / N[(N[Cos[N[(eps + x), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] * N[Cos[x], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\frac{\sin \varepsilon}{\cos \left(\varepsilon + x\right) \cdot \cos x}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 64.2%

    \[\tan \left(x + \varepsilon\right) - \tan x \]
  2. Add Preprocessing
  3. Step-by-step derivation
    1. tan-quot64.1%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\sin \left(x + \varepsilon\right)}{\cos \left(x + \varepsilon\right)}} - \tan x \]
    2. tan-quot64.2%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sin \left(x + \varepsilon\right)}{\cos \left(x + \varepsilon\right)} - \color{blue}{\frac{\sin x}{\cos x}} \]
    3. frac-sub64.2%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\sin \left(x + \varepsilon\right) \cdot \cos x - \cos \left(x + \varepsilon\right) \cdot \sin x}{\cos \left(x + \varepsilon\right) \cdot \cos x}} \]
  4. Applied egg-rr64.2%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\sin \left(x + \varepsilon\right) \cdot \cos x - \cos \left(x + \varepsilon\right) \cdot \sin x}{\cos \left(x + \varepsilon\right) \cdot \cos x}} \]
  5. Taylor expanded in x around 0 99.9%

    \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\sin \varepsilon}}{\cos \left(x + \varepsilon\right) \cdot \cos x} \]
  6. Final simplification99.9%

    \[\leadsto \frac{\sin \varepsilon}{\cos \left(\varepsilon + x\right) \cdot \cos x} \]
  7. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 2: 99.0% accurate, 1.0× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \varepsilon \cdot {\cos x}^{-2} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (x eps) :precision binary64 (* eps (pow (cos x) -2.0)))
double code(double x, double eps) {
	return eps * pow(cos(x), -2.0);
}
real(8) function code(x, eps)
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    real(8), intent (in) :: eps
    code = eps * (cos(x) ** (-2.0d0))
end function
public static double code(double x, double eps) {
	return eps * Math.pow(Math.cos(x), -2.0);
}
def code(x, eps):
	return eps * math.pow(math.cos(x), -2.0)
function code(x, eps)
	return Float64(eps * (cos(x) ^ -2.0))
end
function tmp = code(x, eps)
	tmp = eps * (cos(x) ^ -2.0);
end
code[x_, eps_] := N[(eps * N[Power[N[Cos[x], $MachinePrecision], -2.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\varepsilon \cdot {\cos x}^{-2}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 64.2%

    \[\tan \left(x + \varepsilon\right) - \tan x \]
  2. Add Preprocessing
  3. Step-by-step derivation
    1. tan-quot64.1%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\sin \left(x + \varepsilon\right)}{\cos \left(x + \varepsilon\right)}} - \tan x \]
    2. tan-quot64.2%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sin \left(x + \varepsilon\right)}{\cos \left(x + \varepsilon\right)} - \color{blue}{\frac{\sin x}{\cos x}} \]
    3. frac-sub64.2%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\sin \left(x + \varepsilon\right) \cdot \cos x - \cos \left(x + \varepsilon\right) \cdot \sin x}{\cos \left(x + \varepsilon\right) \cdot \cos x}} \]
  4. Applied egg-rr64.2%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\sin \left(x + \varepsilon\right) \cdot \cos x - \cos \left(x + \varepsilon\right) \cdot \sin x}{\cos \left(x + \varepsilon\right) \cdot \cos x}} \]
  5. Taylor expanded in x around 0 99.9%

    \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\sin \varepsilon}}{\cos \left(x + \varepsilon\right) \cdot \cos x} \]
  6. Taylor expanded in eps around 0 98.8%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\varepsilon}{{\cos x}^{2}}} \]
  7. Step-by-step derivation
    1. clear-num98.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{\frac{{\cos x}^{2}}{\varepsilon}}} \]
    2. associate-/r/98.8%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{{\cos x}^{2}} \cdot \varepsilon} \]
    3. pow-flip98.8%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\cos x}^{\left(-2\right)}} \cdot \varepsilon \]
    4. metadata-eval98.8%

      \[\leadsto {\cos x}^{\color{blue}{-2}} \cdot \varepsilon \]
  8. Applied egg-rr98.8%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\cos x}^{-2} \cdot \varepsilon} \]
  9. Final simplification98.8%

    \[\leadsto \varepsilon \cdot {\cos x}^{-2} \]
  10. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 3: 99.0% accurate, 1.9× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\varepsilon}{\frac{1 + \cos \left(x \cdot 2\right)}{2}} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (x eps) :precision binary64 (/ eps (/ (+ 1.0 (cos (* x 2.0))) 2.0)))
double code(double x, double eps) {
	return eps / ((1.0 + cos((x * 2.0))) / 2.0);
}
real(8) function code(x, eps)
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    real(8), intent (in) :: eps
    code = eps / ((1.0d0 + cos((x * 2.0d0))) / 2.0d0)
end function
public static double code(double x, double eps) {
	return eps / ((1.0 + Math.cos((x * 2.0))) / 2.0);
}
def code(x, eps):
	return eps / ((1.0 + math.cos((x * 2.0))) / 2.0)
function code(x, eps)
	return Float64(eps / Float64(Float64(1.0 + cos(Float64(x * 2.0))) / 2.0))
end
function tmp = code(x, eps)
	tmp = eps / ((1.0 + cos((x * 2.0))) / 2.0);
end
code[x_, eps_] := N[(eps / N[(N[(1.0 + N[Cos[N[(x * 2.0), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / 2.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\frac{\varepsilon}{\frac{1 + \cos \left(x \cdot 2\right)}{2}}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 64.2%

    \[\tan \left(x + \varepsilon\right) - \tan x \]
  2. Add Preprocessing
  3. Step-by-step derivation
    1. tan-quot64.1%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\sin \left(x + \varepsilon\right)}{\cos \left(x + \varepsilon\right)}} - \tan x \]
    2. tan-quot64.2%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sin \left(x + \varepsilon\right)}{\cos \left(x + \varepsilon\right)} - \color{blue}{\frac{\sin x}{\cos x}} \]
    3. frac-sub64.2%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\sin \left(x + \varepsilon\right) \cdot \cos x - \cos \left(x + \varepsilon\right) \cdot \sin x}{\cos \left(x + \varepsilon\right) \cdot \cos x}} \]
  4. Applied egg-rr64.2%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\sin \left(x + \varepsilon\right) \cdot \cos x - \cos \left(x + \varepsilon\right) \cdot \sin x}{\cos \left(x + \varepsilon\right) \cdot \cos x}} \]
  5. Taylor expanded in x around 0 99.9%

    \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\sin \varepsilon}}{\cos \left(x + \varepsilon\right) \cdot \cos x} \]
  6. Taylor expanded in eps around 0 98.8%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\varepsilon}{{\cos x}^{2}}} \]
  7. Step-by-step derivation
    1. unpow298.8%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\varepsilon}{\color{blue}{\cos x \cdot \cos x}} \]
    2. cos-mult98.8%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\varepsilon}{\color{blue}{\frac{\cos \left(x + x\right) + \cos \left(x - x\right)}{2}}} \]
  8. Applied egg-rr98.8%

    \[\leadsto \frac{\varepsilon}{\color{blue}{\frac{\cos \left(x + x\right) + \cos \left(x - x\right)}{2}}} \]
  9. Step-by-step derivation
    1. +-commutative98.8%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\varepsilon}{\frac{\color{blue}{\cos \left(x - x\right) + \cos \left(x + x\right)}}{2}} \]
    2. +-inverses98.8%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\varepsilon}{\frac{\cos \color{blue}{0} + \cos \left(x + x\right)}{2}} \]
    3. cos-098.8%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\varepsilon}{\frac{\color{blue}{1} + \cos \left(x + x\right)}{2}} \]
    4. count-298.8%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\varepsilon}{\frac{1 + \cos \color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot x\right)}}{2}} \]
    5. *-commutative98.8%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\varepsilon}{\frac{1 + \cos \color{blue}{\left(x \cdot 2\right)}}{2}} \]
  10. Simplified98.8%

    \[\leadsto \frac{\varepsilon}{\color{blue}{\frac{1 + \cos \left(x \cdot 2\right)}{2}}} \]
  11. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 4: 98.3% accurate, 1.9× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \varepsilon + \varepsilon \cdot {x}^{2} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (x eps) :precision binary64 (+ eps (* eps (pow x 2.0))))
double code(double x, double eps) {
	return eps + (eps * pow(x, 2.0));
}
real(8) function code(x, eps)
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    real(8), intent (in) :: eps
    code = eps + (eps * (x ** 2.0d0))
end function
public static double code(double x, double eps) {
	return eps + (eps * Math.pow(x, 2.0));
}
def code(x, eps):
	return eps + (eps * math.pow(x, 2.0))
function code(x, eps)
	return Float64(eps + Float64(eps * (x ^ 2.0)))
end
function tmp = code(x, eps)
	tmp = eps + (eps * (x ^ 2.0));
end
code[x_, eps_] := N[(eps + N[(eps * N[Power[x, 2.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\varepsilon + \varepsilon \cdot {x}^{2}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 64.2%

    \[\tan \left(x + \varepsilon\right) - \tan x \]
  2. Add Preprocessing
  3. Step-by-step derivation
    1. tan-quot64.1%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\sin \left(x + \varepsilon\right)}{\cos \left(x + \varepsilon\right)}} - \tan x \]
    2. tan-quot64.2%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sin \left(x + \varepsilon\right)}{\cos \left(x + \varepsilon\right)} - \color{blue}{\frac{\sin x}{\cos x}} \]
    3. frac-sub64.2%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\sin \left(x + \varepsilon\right) \cdot \cos x - \cos \left(x + \varepsilon\right) \cdot \sin x}{\cos \left(x + \varepsilon\right) \cdot \cos x}} \]
  4. Applied egg-rr64.2%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\sin \left(x + \varepsilon\right) \cdot \cos x - \cos \left(x + \varepsilon\right) \cdot \sin x}{\cos \left(x + \varepsilon\right) \cdot \cos x}} \]
  5. Taylor expanded in x around 0 99.9%

    \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\sin \varepsilon}}{\cos \left(x + \varepsilon\right) \cdot \cos x} \]
  6. Taylor expanded in eps around 0 98.8%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\varepsilon}{{\cos x}^{2}}} \]
  7. Taylor expanded in x around 0 98.1%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\varepsilon + \varepsilon \cdot {x}^{2}} \]
  8. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 5: 97.9% accurate, 2.0× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \tan \varepsilon \end{array} \]
(FPCore (x eps) :precision binary64 (tan eps))
double code(double x, double eps) {
	return tan(eps);
}
real(8) function code(x, eps)
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    real(8), intent (in) :: eps
    code = tan(eps)
end function
public static double code(double x, double eps) {
	return Math.tan(eps);
}
def code(x, eps):
	return math.tan(eps)
function code(x, eps)
	return tan(eps)
end
function tmp = code(x, eps)
	tmp = tan(eps);
end
code[x_, eps_] := N[Tan[eps], $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\tan \varepsilon
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 64.2%

    \[\tan \left(x + \varepsilon\right) - \tan x \]
  2. Add Preprocessing
  3. Taylor expanded in x around 0 97.8%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\sin \varepsilon}{\cos \varepsilon}} \]
  4. Step-by-step derivation
    1. *-un-lft-identity97.8%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{1 \cdot \frac{\sin \varepsilon}{\cos \varepsilon}} \]
    2. quot-tan97.8%

      \[\leadsto 1 \cdot \color{blue}{\tan \varepsilon} \]
  5. Applied egg-rr97.8%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{1 \cdot \tan \varepsilon} \]
  6. Step-by-step derivation
    1. *-lft-identity97.8%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\tan \varepsilon} \]
  7. Simplified97.8%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\tan \varepsilon} \]
  8. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 6: 97.9% accurate, 205.0× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \varepsilon \end{array} \]
(FPCore (x eps) :precision binary64 eps)
double code(double x, double eps) {
	return eps;
}
real(8) function code(x, eps)
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    real(8), intent (in) :: eps
    code = eps
end function
public static double code(double x, double eps) {
	return eps;
}
def code(x, eps):
	return eps
function code(x, eps)
	return eps
end
function tmp = code(x, eps)
	tmp = eps;
end
code[x_, eps_] := eps
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\varepsilon
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 64.2%

    \[\tan \left(x + \varepsilon\right) - \tan x \]
  2. Add Preprocessing
  3. Taylor expanded in x around 0 97.8%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\sin \varepsilon}{\cos \varepsilon}} \]
  4. Taylor expanded in eps around 0 97.7%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\varepsilon} \]
  5. Add Preprocessing

Developer Target 1: 99.9% accurate, 0.7× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\sin \varepsilon}{\cos x \cdot \cos \left(x + \varepsilon\right)} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (x eps) :precision binary64 (/ (sin eps) (* (cos x) (cos (+ x eps)))))
double code(double x, double eps) {
	return sin(eps) / (cos(x) * cos((x + eps)));
}
real(8) function code(x, eps)
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    real(8), intent (in) :: eps
    code = sin(eps) / (cos(x) * cos((x + eps)))
end function
public static double code(double x, double eps) {
	return Math.sin(eps) / (Math.cos(x) * Math.cos((x + eps)));
}
def code(x, eps):
	return math.sin(eps) / (math.cos(x) * math.cos((x + eps)))
function code(x, eps)
	return Float64(sin(eps) / Float64(cos(x) * cos(Float64(x + eps))))
end
function tmp = code(x, eps)
	tmp = sin(eps) / (cos(x) * cos((x + eps)));
end
code[x_, eps_] := N[(N[Sin[eps], $MachinePrecision] / N[(N[Cos[x], $MachinePrecision] * N[Cos[N[(x + eps), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\frac{\sin \varepsilon}{\cos x \cdot \cos \left(x + \varepsilon\right)}
\end{array}

Reproduce

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herbie shell --seed 2024143 
(FPCore (x eps)
  :name "2tan (problem 3.3.2)"
  :precision binary64
  :pre (and (and (and (<= -10000.0 x) (<= x 10000.0)) (< (* 1e-16 (fabs x)) eps)) (< eps (fabs x)))

  :alt
  (! :herbie-platform default (/ (sin eps) (* (cos x) (cos (+ x eps)))))

  (- (tan (+ x eps)) (tan x)))