2frac (problem 3.3.1)

Percentage Accurate: 77.4% → 99.9%
Time: 6.8s
Alternatives: 9
Speedup: 1.6×

Specification

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\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{1}{x + 1} - \frac{1}{x} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (x) :precision binary64 (- (/ 1.0 (+ x 1.0)) (/ 1.0 x)))
double code(double x) {
	return (1.0 / (x + 1.0)) - (1.0 / x);
}
real(8) function code(x)
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    code = (1.0d0 / (x + 1.0d0)) - (1.0d0 / x)
end function
public static double code(double x) {
	return (1.0 / (x + 1.0)) - (1.0 / x);
}
def code(x):
	return (1.0 / (x + 1.0)) - (1.0 / x)
function code(x)
	return Float64(Float64(1.0 / Float64(x + 1.0)) - Float64(1.0 / x))
end
function tmp = code(x)
	tmp = (1.0 / (x + 1.0)) - (1.0 / x);
end
code[x_] := N[(N[(1.0 / N[(x + 1.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - N[(1.0 / x), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\frac{1}{x + 1} - \frac{1}{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 9 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: 77.4% accurate, 1.0× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{1}{x + 1} - \frac{1}{x} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (x) :precision binary64 (- (/ 1.0 (+ x 1.0)) (/ 1.0 x)))
double code(double x) {
	return (1.0 / (x + 1.0)) - (1.0 / x);
}
real(8) function code(x)
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    code = (1.0d0 / (x + 1.0d0)) - (1.0d0 / x)
end function
public static double code(double x) {
	return (1.0 / (x + 1.0)) - (1.0 / x);
}
def code(x):
	return (1.0 / (x + 1.0)) - (1.0 / x)
function code(x)
	return Float64(Float64(1.0 / Float64(x + 1.0)) - Float64(1.0 / x))
end
function tmp = code(x)
	tmp = (1.0 / (x + 1.0)) - (1.0 / x);
end
code[x_] := N[(N[(1.0 / N[(x + 1.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - N[(1.0 / x), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\frac{1}{x + 1} - \frac{1}{x}
\end{array}

Alternative 1: 99.9% accurate, 1.1× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\frac{1}{-1 - x}}{x} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (x) :precision binary64 (/ (/ 1.0 (- -1.0 x)) x))
double code(double x) {
	return (1.0 / (-1.0 - x)) / x;
}
real(8) function code(x)
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    code = (1.0d0 / ((-1.0d0) - x)) / x
end function
public static double code(double x) {
	return (1.0 / (-1.0 - x)) / x;
}
def code(x):
	return (1.0 / (-1.0 - x)) / x
function code(x)
	return Float64(Float64(1.0 / Float64(-1.0 - x)) / x)
end
function tmp = code(x)
	tmp = (1.0 / (-1.0 - x)) / x;
end
code[x_] := N[(N[(1.0 / N[(-1.0 - x), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / x), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\frac{\frac{1}{-1 - x}}{x}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 74.5%

    \[\frac{1}{x + 1} - \frac{1}{x} \]
  2. Add Preprocessing
  3. Applied rewrites99.9%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-\frac{\left(x - x\right) - 1}{-1 - x}}{x}} \]
  4. Step-by-step derivation
    1. lift-neg.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{\left(x - x\right) - 1}{-1 - x}\right)}}{x} \]
    2. lift-/.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{\frac{\left(x - x\right) - 1}{-1 - x}}\right)}{x} \]
    3. distribute-neg-fracN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\left(x - x\right) - 1\right)\right)}{-1 - x}}}{x} \]
    4. lift--.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{\left(\left(x - x\right) - 1\right)}\right)}{-1 - x}}{x} \]
    5. lift--.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\color{blue}{\left(x - x\right)} - 1\right)\right)}{-1 - x}}{x} \]
    6. +-inversesN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\color{blue}{0} - 1\right)\right)}{-1 - x}}{x} \]
    7. metadata-evalN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{-1}\right)}{-1 - x}}{x} \]
    8. metadata-evalN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\color{blue}{1}}{-1 - x}}{x} \]
    9. lower-/.f6499.9

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{-1 - x}}}{x} \]
  5. Applied rewrites99.9%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{-1 - x}}{x}} \]
  6. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 2: 97.8% accurate, 0.3× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := \frac{1}{x + 1} - \frac{1}{x}\\ t_1 := \left(1 - x\right) - \frac{1}{x}\\ \mathbf{if}\;t\_0 \leq -100:\\ \;\;\;\;t\_1\\ \mathbf{elif}\;t\_0 \leq 0:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-1}{x \cdot x}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;t\_1\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (x)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0 (- (/ 1.0 (+ x 1.0)) (/ 1.0 x))) (t_1 (- (- 1.0 x) (/ 1.0 x))))
   (if (<= t_0 -100.0) t_1 (if (<= t_0 0.0) (/ -1.0 (* x x)) t_1))))
double code(double x) {
	double t_0 = (1.0 / (x + 1.0)) - (1.0 / x);
	double t_1 = (1.0 - x) - (1.0 / x);
	double tmp;
	if (t_0 <= -100.0) {
		tmp = t_1;
	} else if (t_0 <= 0.0) {
		tmp = -1.0 / (x * x);
	} else {
		tmp = t_1;
	}
	return tmp;
}
real(8) function code(x)
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    real(8) :: t_0
    real(8) :: t_1
    real(8) :: tmp
    t_0 = (1.0d0 / (x + 1.0d0)) - (1.0d0 / x)
    t_1 = (1.0d0 - x) - (1.0d0 / x)
    if (t_0 <= (-100.0d0)) then
        tmp = t_1
    else if (t_0 <= 0.0d0) then
        tmp = (-1.0d0) / (x * x)
    else
        tmp = t_1
    end if
    code = tmp
end function
public static double code(double x) {
	double t_0 = (1.0 / (x + 1.0)) - (1.0 / x);
	double t_1 = (1.0 - x) - (1.0 / x);
	double tmp;
	if (t_0 <= -100.0) {
		tmp = t_1;
	} else if (t_0 <= 0.0) {
		tmp = -1.0 / (x * x);
	} else {
		tmp = t_1;
	}
	return tmp;
}
def code(x):
	t_0 = (1.0 / (x + 1.0)) - (1.0 / x)
	t_1 = (1.0 - x) - (1.0 / x)
	tmp = 0
	if t_0 <= -100.0:
		tmp = t_1
	elif t_0 <= 0.0:
		tmp = -1.0 / (x * x)
	else:
		tmp = t_1
	return tmp
function code(x)
	t_0 = Float64(Float64(1.0 / Float64(x + 1.0)) - Float64(1.0 / x))
	t_1 = Float64(Float64(1.0 - x) - Float64(1.0 / x))
	tmp = 0.0
	if (t_0 <= -100.0)
		tmp = t_1;
	elseif (t_0 <= 0.0)
		tmp = Float64(-1.0 / Float64(x * x));
	else
		tmp = t_1;
	end
	return tmp
end
function tmp_2 = code(x)
	t_0 = (1.0 / (x + 1.0)) - (1.0 / x);
	t_1 = (1.0 - x) - (1.0 / x);
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (t_0 <= -100.0)
		tmp = t_1;
	elseif (t_0 <= 0.0)
		tmp = -1.0 / (x * x);
	else
		tmp = t_1;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end
code[x_] := Block[{t$95$0 = N[(N[(1.0 / N[(x + 1.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - N[(1.0 / x), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]}, Block[{t$95$1 = N[(N[(1.0 - x), $MachinePrecision] - N[(1.0 / x), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]}, If[LessEqual[t$95$0, -100.0], t$95$1, If[LessEqual[t$95$0, 0.0], N[(-1.0 / N[(x * x), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], t$95$1]]]]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\begin{array}{l}
t_0 := \frac{1}{x + 1} - \frac{1}{x}\\
t_1 := \left(1 - x\right) - \frac{1}{x}\\
\mathbf{if}\;t\_0 \leq -100:\\
\;\;\;\;t\_1\\

\mathbf{elif}\;t\_0 \leq 0:\\
\;\;\;\;\frac{-1}{x \cdot x}\\

\mathbf{else}:\\
\;\;\;\;t\_1\\


\end{array}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Split input into 2 regimes
  2. if (-.f64 (/.f64 #s(literal 1 binary64) (+.f64 x #s(literal 1 binary64))) (/.f64 #s(literal 1 binary64) x)) < -100 or 0.0 < (-.f64 (/.f64 #s(literal 1 binary64) (+.f64 x #s(literal 1 binary64))) (/.f64 #s(literal 1 binary64) x))

    1. Initial program 100.0%

      \[\frac{1}{x + 1} - \frac{1}{x} \]
    2. Add Preprocessing
    3. Taylor expanded in x around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(1 + -1 \cdot x\right)} - \frac{1}{x} \]
    4. Step-by-step derivation
      1. mul-1-negN/A

        \[\leadsto \left(1 + \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(x\right)\right)}\right) - \frac{1}{x} \]
      2. unsub-negN/A

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(1 - x\right)} - \frac{1}{x} \]
      3. lower--.f6498.9

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(1 - x\right)} - \frac{1}{x} \]
    5. Applied rewrites98.9%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(1 - x\right)} - \frac{1}{x} \]

    if -100 < (-.f64 (/.f64 #s(literal 1 binary64) (+.f64 x #s(literal 1 binary64))) (/.f64 #s(literal 1 binary64) x)) < 0.0

    1. Initial program 54.1%

      \[\frac{1}{x + 1} - \frac{1}{x} \]
    2. Add Preprocessing
    3. Taylor expanded in x around inf

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-1}{{x}^{2}}} \]
    4. Step-by-step derivation
      1. lower-/.f64N/A

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-1}{{x}^{2}}} \]
      2. unpow2N/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{-1}{\color{blue}{x \cdot x}} \]
      3. lower-*.f6495.2

        \[\leadsto \frac{-1}{\color{blue}{x \cdot x}} \]
    5. Applied rewrites95.2%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-1}{x \cdot x}} \]
  3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
  4. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 3: 97.6% accurate, 1.0× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := \frac{-1}{x \cdot x}\\ \mathbf{if}\;x \leq -1:\\ \;\;\;\;t\_0\\ \mathbf{elif}\;x \leq 0.76:\\ \;\;\;\;1 - \frac{1}{x}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;t\_0\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (x)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0 (/ -1.0 (* x x))))
   (if (<= x -1.0) t_0 (if (<= x 0.76) (- 1.0 (/ 1.0 x)) t_0))))
double code(double x) {
	double t_0 = -1.0 / (x * x);
	double tmp;
	if (x <= -1.0) {
		tmp = t_0;
	} else if (x <= 0.76) {
		tmp = 1.0 - (1.0 / x);
	} else {
		tmp = t_0;
	}
	return tmp;
}
real(8) function code(x)
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    real(8) :: t_0
    real(8) :: tmp
    t_0 = (-1.0d0) / (x * x)
    if (x <= (-1.0d0)) then
        tmp = t_0
    else if (x <= 0.76d0) then
        tmp = 1.0d0 - (1.0d0 / x)
    else
        tmp = t_0
    end if
    code = tmp
end function
public static double code(double x) {
	double t_0 = -1.0 / (x * x);
	double tmp;
	if (x <= -1.0) {
		tmp = t_0;
	} else if (x <= 0.76) {
		tmp = 1.0 - (1.0 / x);
	} else {
		tmp = t_0;
	}
	return tmp;
}
def code(x):
	t_0 = -1.0 / (x * x)
	tmp = 0
	if x <= -1.0:
		tmp = t_0
	elif x <= 0.76:
		tmp = 1.0 - (1.0 / x)
	else:
		tmp = t_0
	return tmp
function code(x)
	t_0 = Float64(-1.0 / Float64(x * x))
	tmp = 0.0
	if (x <= -1.0)
		tmp = t_0;
	elseif (x <= 0.76)
		tmp = Float64(1.0 - Float64(1.0 / x));
	else
		tmp = t_0;
	end
	return tmp
end
function tmp_2 = code(x)
	t_0 = -1.0 / (x * x);
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (x <= -1.0)
		tmp = t_0;
	elseif (x <= 0.76)
		tmp = 1.0 - (1.0 / x);
	else
		tmp = t_0;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end
code[x_] := Block[{t$95$0 = N[(-1.0 / N[(x * x), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]}, If[LessEqual[x, -1.0], t$95$0, If[LessEqual[x, 0.76], N[(1.0 - N[(1.0 / x), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], t$95$0]]]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\begin{array}{l}
t_0 := \frac{-1}{x \cdot x}\\
\mathbf{if}\;x \leq -1:\\
\;\;\;\;t\_0\\

\mathbf{elif}\;x \leq 0.76:\\
\;\;\;\;1 - \frac{1}{x}\\

\mathbf{else}:\\
\;\;\;\;t\_0\\


\end{array}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Split input into 2 regimes
  2. if x < -1 or 0.76000000000000001 < x

    1. Initial program 54.1%

      \[\frac{1}{x + 1} - \frac{1}{x} \]
    2. Add Preprocessing
    3. Taylor expanded in x around inf

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-1}{{x}^{2}}} \]
    4. Step-by-step derivation
      1. lower-/.f64N/A

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-1}{{x}^{2}}} \]
      2. unpow2N/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{-1}{\color{blue}{x \cdot x}} \]
      3. lower-*.f6495.2

        \[\leadsto \frac{-1}{\color{blue}{x \cdot x}} \]
    5. Applied rewrites95.2%

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

    if -1 < x < 0.76000000000000001

    1. Initial program 100.0%

      \[\frac{1}{x + 1} - \frac{1}{x} \]
    2. Add Preprocessing
    3. Taylor expanded in x around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{1} - \frac{1}{x} \]
    4. Step-by-step derivation
      1. Applied rewrites98.4%

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{1} - \frac{1}{x} \]
    5. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
    6. Add Preprocessing

    Alternative 4: 99.4% accurate, 1.6× speedup?

    \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{-1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(x, x, x\right)} \end{array} \]
    (FPCore (x) :precision binary64 (/ -1.0 (fma x x x)))
    double code(double x) {
    	return -1.0 / fma(x, x, x);
    }
    
    function code(x)
    	return Float64(-1.0 / fma(x, x, x))
    end
    
    code[x_] := N[(-1.0 / N[(x * x + x), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
    
    \begin{array}{l}
    
    \\
    \frac{-1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(x, x, x\right)}
    \end{array}
    
    Derivation
    1. Initial program 74.5%

      \[\frac{1}{x + 1} - \frac{1}{x} \]
    2. Add Preprocessing
    3. Applied rewrites99.9%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-\frac{\left(x - x\right) - 1}{-1 - x}}{x}} \]
    4. Applied rewrites98.9%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(x, x, x\right)}} \]
    5. Add Preprocessing

    Alternative 5: 51.9% accurate, 2.4× speedup?

    \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{-1}{x} \end{array} \]
    (FPCore (x) :precision binary64 (/ -1.0 x))
    double code(double x) {
    	return -1.0 / x;
    }
    
    real(8) function code(x)
        real(8), intent (in) :: x
        code = (-1.0d0) / x
    end function
    
    public static double code(double x) {
    	return -1.0 / x;
    }
    
    def code(x):
    	return -1.0 / x
    
    function code(x)
    	return Float64(-1.0 / x)
    end
    
    function tmp = code(x)
    	tmp = -1.0 / x;
    end
    
    code[x_] := N[(-1.0 / x), $MachinePrecision]
    
    \begin{array}{l}
    
    \\
    \frac{-1}{x}
    \end{array}
    
    Derivation
    1. Initial program 74.5%

      \[\frac{1}{x + 1} - \frac{1}{x} \]
    2. Add Preprocessing
    3. Taylor expanded in x around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-1}{x}} \]
    4. Step-by-step derivation
      1. lower-/.f6446.8

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-1}{x}} \]
    5. Applied rewrites46.8%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-1}{x}} \]
    6. Add Preprocessing

    Alternative 6: 3.3% accurate, 2.4× speedup?

    \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{1}{x} \end{array} \]
    (FPCore (x) :precision binary64 (/ 1.0 x))
    double code(double x) {
    	return 1.0 / x;
    }
    
    real(8) function code(x)
        real(8), intent (in) :: x
        code = 1.0d0 / x
    end function
    
    public static double code(double x) {
    	return 1.0 / x;
    }
    
    def code(x):
    	return 1.0 / x
    
    function code(x)
    	return Float64(1.0 / x)
    end
    
    function tmp = code(x)
    	tmp = 1.0 / x;
    end
    
    code[x_] := N[(1.0 / x), $MachinePrecision]
    
    \begin{array}{l}
    
    \\
    \frac{1}{x}
    \end{array}
    
    Derivation
    1. Initial program 74.5%

      \[\frac{1}{x + 1} - \frac{1}{x} \]
    2. Add Preprocessing
    3. Applied rewrites99.9%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-\frac{\left(x - x\right) - 1}{-1 - x}}{x}} \]
    4. Step-by-step derivation
      1. lift-neg.f64N/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{\left(x - x\right) - 1}{-1 - x}\right)}}{x} \]
      2. lift-/.f64N/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{\frac{\left(x - x\right) - 1}{-1 - x}}\right)}{x} \]
      3. distribute-neg-fracN/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\left(x - x\right) - 1\right)\right)}{-1 - x}}}{x} \]
      4. lift--.f64N/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{\left(\left(x - x\right) - 1\right)}\right)}{-1 - x}}{x} \]
      5. lift--.f64N/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\color{blue}{\left(x - x\right)} - 1\right)\right)}{-1 - x}}{x} \]
      6. +-inversesN/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\color{blue}{0} - 1\right)\right)}{-1 - x}}{x} \]
      7. metadata-evalN/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{-1}\right)}{-1 - x}}{x} \]
      8. metadata-evalN/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\color{blue}{1}}{-1 - x}}{x} \]
      9. lower-/.f6499.9

        \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{-1 - x}}}{x} \]
    5. Applied rewrites99.9%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{-1 - x}}{x}} \]
    6. Applied rewrites16.2%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(x, x, -1\right) \cdot \left(x \cdot x\right)} \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(x, x, x\right)} \]
    7. Taylor expanded in x around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{x}} \]
    8. Step-by-step derivation
      1. lower-/.f643.6

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{x}} \]
    9. Applied rewrites3.6%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{x}} \]
    10. Add Preprocessing

    Alternative 7: 3.3% accurate, 3.2× speedup?

    \[\begin{array}{l} \\ -\mathsf{fma}\left(x, x, x\right) \end{array} \]
    (FPCore (x) :precision binary64 (- (fma x x x)))
    double code(double x) {
    	return -fma(x, x, x);
    }
    
    function code(x)
    	return Float64(-fma(x, x, x))
    end
    
    code[x_] := (-N[(x * x + x), $MachinePrecision])
    
    \begin{array}{l}
    
    \\
    -\mathsf{fma}\left(x, x, x\right)
    \end{array}
    
    Derivation
    1. Initial program 74.5%

      \[\frac{1}{x + 1} - \frac{1}{x} \]
    2. Add Preprocessing
    3. Taylor expanded in x around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{x \cdot \left(1 + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right)\right) - 1}{x}} \]
    4. Step-by-step derivation
      1. div-subN/A

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{x \cdot \left(1 + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right)\right)}{x} - \frac{1}{x}} \]
      2. sub-negN/A

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{x \cdot \left(1 + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right)\right)}{x} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{x}\right)\right)} \]
      3. *-commutativeN/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left(1 + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right)\right) \cdot x}}{x} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{x}\right)\right) \]
      4. associate-/l*N/A

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(1 + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right)\right) \cdot \frac{x}{x}} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{x}\right)\right) \]
      5. *-inversesN/A

        \[\leadsto \left(1 + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right)\right) \cdot \color{blue}{1} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{x}\right)\right) \]
      6. *-rgt-identityN/A

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(1 + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right)\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{x}\right)\right) \]
      7. +-commutativeN/A

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{x}\right)\right) + \left(1 + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right)\right)} \]
      8. associate-+r+N/A

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{x}\right)\right) + 1\right) + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right)} \]
      9. neg-sub0N/A

        \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{\left(0 - \frac{1}{x}\right)} + 1\right) + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right) \]
      10. associate-+l-N/A

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(0 - \left(\frac{1}{x} - 1\right)\right)} + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right) \]
      11. neg-sub0N/A

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\frac{1}{x} - 1\right)\right)\right)} + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right) \]
      12. sub-negN/A

        \[\leadsto \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\frac{1}{x} - 1\right)\right)\right) + x \cdot \color{blue}{\left(x + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right)\right)} \]
      13. remove-double-negN/A

        \[\leadsto \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\frac{1}{x} - 1\right)\right)\right) + x \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(x\right)\right)\right)\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right)\right) \]
      14. mul-1-negN/A

        \[\leadsto \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\frac{1}{x} - 1\right)\right)\right) + x \cdot \left(\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{-1 \cdot x}\right)\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right)\right) \]
      15. distribute-neg-inN/A

        \[\leadsto \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\frac{1}{x} - 1\right)\right)\right) + x \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(-1 \cdot x + 1\right)\right)\right)} \]
      16. +-commutativeN/A

        \[\leadsto \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\frac{1}{x} - 1\right)\right)\right) + x \cdot \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{\left(1 + -1 \cdot x\right)}\right)\right) \]
      17. distribute-rgt-neg-inN/A

        \[\leadsto \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\frac{1}{x} - 1\right)\right)\right) + \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(x \cdot \left(1 + -1 \cdot x\right)\right)\right)} \]
      18. distribute-neg-inN/A

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\left(\frac{1}{x} - 1\right) + x \cdot \left(1 + -1 \cdot x\right)\right)\right)} \]
      19. +-commutativeN/A

        \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{\left(x \cdot \left(1 + -1 \cdot x\right) + \left(\frac{1}{x} - 1\right)\right)}\right) \]
    5. Applied rewrites45.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\frac{-1}{x} - x\right) \cdot \left(1 - x\right)} \]
    6. Taylor expanded in x around inf

      \[\leadsto {x}^{\color{blue}{2}} \]
    7. Step-by-step derivation
      1. Applied rewrites2.1%

        \[\leadsto x \cdot \color{blue}{x} \]
      2. Taylor expanded in x around inf

        \[\leadsto {x}^{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(1 - \frac{1}{x}\right)} \]
      3. Step-by-step derivation
        1. Applied rewrites2.7%

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(x, \color{blue}{x}, -x\right) \]
        2. Applied rewrites3.5%

          \[\leadsto -\mathsf{fma}\left(x, x, x\right) \]
        3. Add Preprocessing

        Alternative 8: 3.2% accurate, 9.7× speedup?

        \[\begin{array}{l} \\ -x \end{array} \]
        (FPCore (x) :precision binary64 (- x))
        double code(double x) {
        	return -x;
        }
        
        real(8) function code(x)
            real(8), intent (in) :: x
            code = -x
        end function
        
        public static double code(double x) {
        	return -x;
        }
        
        def code(x):
        	return -x
        
        function code(x)
        	return Float64(-x)
        end
        
        function tmp = code(x)
        	tmp = -x;
        end
        
        code[x_] := (-x)
        
        \begin{array}{l}
        
        \\
        -x
        \end{array}
        
        Derivation
        1. Initial program 74.5%

          \[\frac{1}{x + 1} - \frac{1}{x} \]
        2. Add Preprocessing
        3. Taylor expanded in x around 0

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{x \cdot \left(1 + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right)\right) - 1}{x}} \]
        4. Step-by-step derivation
          1. div-subN/A

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{x \cdot \left(1 + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right)\right)}{x} - \frac{1}{x}} \]
          2. sub-negN/A

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{x \cdot \left(1 + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right)\right)}{x} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{x}\right)\right)} \]
          3. *-commutativeN/A

            \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left(1 + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right)\right) \cdot x}}{x} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{x}\right)\right) \]
          4. associate-/l*N/A

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(1 + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right)\right) \cdot \frac{x}{x}} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{x}\right)\right) \]
          5. *-inversesN/A

            \[\leadsto \left(1 + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right)\right) \cdot \color{blue}{1} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{x}\right)\right) \]
          6. *-rgt-identityN/A

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(1 + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right)\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{x}\right)\right) \]
          7. +-commutativeN/A

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{x}\right)\right) + \left(1 + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right)\right)} \]
          8. associate-+r+N/A

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{x}\right)\right) + 1\right) + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right)} \]
          9. neg-sub0N/A

            \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{\left(0 - \frac{1}{x}\right)} + 1\right) + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right) \]
          10. associate-+l-N/A

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(0 - \left(\frac{1}{x} - 1\right)\right)} + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right) \]
          11. neg-sub0N/A

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\frac{1}{x} - 1\right)\right)\right)} + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right) \]
          12. sub-negN/A

            \[\leadsto \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\frac{1}{x} - 1\right)\right)\right) + x \cdot \color{blue}{\left(x + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right)\right)} \]
          13. remove-double-negN/A

            \[\leadsto \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\frac{1}{x} - 1\right)\right)\right) + x \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(x\right)\right)\right)\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right)\right) \]
          14. mul-1-negN/A

            \[\leadsto \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\frac{1}{x} - 1\right)\right)\right) + x \cdot \left(\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{-1 \cdot x}\right)\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right)\right) \]
          15. distribute-neg-inN/A

            \[\leadsto \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\frac{1}{x} - 1\right)\right)\right) + x \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(-1 \cdot x + 1\right)\right)\right)} \]
          16. +-commutativeN/A

            \[\leadsto \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\frac{1}{x} - 1\right)\right)\right) + x \cdot \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{\left(1 + -1 \cdot x\right)}\right)\right) \]
          17. distribute-rgt-neg-inN/A

            \[\leadsto \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\frac{1}{x} - 1\right)\right)\right) + \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(x \cdot \left(1 + -1 \cdot x\right)\right)\right)} \]
          18. distribute-neg-inN/A

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\left(\frac{1}{x} - 1\right) + x \cdot \left(1 + -1 \cdot x\right)\right)\right)} \]
          19. +-commutativeN/A

            \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{\left(x \cdot \left(1 + -1 \cdot x\right) + \left(\frac{1}{x} - 1\right)\right)}\right) \]
        5. Applied rewrites45.0%

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\frac{-1}{x} - x\right) \cdot \left(1 - x\right)} \]
        6. Taylor expanded in x around inf

          \[\leadsto {x}^{\color{blue}{2}} \]
        7. Step-by-step derivation
          1. Applied rewrites2.1%

            \[\leadsto x \cdot \color{blue}{x} \]
          2. Taylor expanded in x around inf

            \[\leadsto {x}^{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(1 - \frac{1}{x}\right)} \]
          3. Step-by-step derivation
            1. Applied rewrites2.7%

              \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(x, \color{blue}{x}, -x\right) \]
            2. Taylor expanded in x around 0

              \[\leadsto -1 \cdot x \]
            3. Step-by-step derivation
              1. Applied rewrites3.4%

                \[\leadsto -x \]
              2. Add Preprocessing

              Alternative 9: 3.0% accurate, 29.0× speedup?

              \[\begin{array}{l} \\ 1 \end{array} \]
              (FPCore (x) :precision binary64 1.0)
              double code(double x) {
              	return 1.0;
              }
              
              real(8) function code(x)
                  real(8), intent (in) :: x
                  code = 1.0d0
              end function
              
              public static double code(double x) {
              	return 1.0;
              }
              
              def code(x):
              	return 1.0
              
              function code(x)
              	return 1.0
              end
              
              function tmp = code(x)
              	tmp = 1.0;
              end
              
              code[x_] := 1.0
              
              \begin{array}{l}
              
              \\
              1
              \end{array}
              
              Derivation
              1. Initial program 74.5%

                \[\frac{1}{x + 1} - \frac{1}{x} \]
              2. Add Preprocessing
              3. Taylor expanded in x around 0

                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{x \cdot \left(1 + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right)\right) - 1}{x}} \]
              4. Step-by-step derivation
                1. div-subN/A

                  \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{x \cdot \left(1 + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right)\right)}{x} - \frac{1}{x}} \]
                2. sub-negN/A

                  \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{x \cdot \left(1 + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right)\right)}{x} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{x}\right)\right)} \]
                3. *-commutativeN/A

                  \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left(1 + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right)\right) \cdot x}}{x} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{x}\right)\right) \]
                4. associate-/l*N/A

                  \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(1 + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right)\right) \cdot \frac{x}{x}} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{x}\right)\right) \]
                5. *-inversesN/A

                  \[\leadsto \left(1 + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right)\right) \cdot \color{blue}{1} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{x}\right)\right) \]
                6. *-rgt-identityN/A

                  \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(1 + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right)\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{x}\right)\right) \]
                7. +-commutativeN/A

                  \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{x}\right)\right) + \left(1 + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right)\right)} \]
                8. associate-+r+N/A

                  \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{x}\right)\right) + 1\right) + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right)} \]
                9. neg-sub0N/A

                  \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{\left(0 - \frac{1}{x}\right)} + 1\right) + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right) \]
                10. associate-+l-N/A

                  \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(0 - \left(\frac{1}{x} - 1\right)\right)} + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right) \]
                11. neg-sub0N/A

                  \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\frac{1}{x} - 1\right)\right)\right)} + x \cdot \left(x - 1\right) \]
                12. sub-negN/A

                  \[\leadsto \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\frac{1}{x} - 1\right)\right)\right) + x \cdot \color{blue}{\left(x + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right)\right)} \]
                13. remove-double-negN/A

                  \[\leadsto \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\frac{1}{x} - 1\right)\right)\right) + x \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(x\right)\right)\right)\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right)\right) \]
                14. mul-1-negN/A

                  \[\leadsto \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\frac{1}{x} - 1\right)\right)\right) + x \cdot \left(\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{-1 \cdot x}\right)\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(1\right)\right)\right) \]
                15. distribute-neg-inN/A

                  \[\leadsto \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\frac{1}{x} - 1\right)\right)\right) + x \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(-1 \cdot x + 1\right)\right)\right)} \]
                16. +-commutativeN/A

                  \[\leadsto \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\frac{1}{x} - 1\right)\right)\right) + x \cdot \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{\left(1 + -1 \cdot x\right)}\right)\right) \]
                17. distribute-rgt-neg-inN/A

                  \[\leadsto \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\frac{1}{x} - 1\right)\right)\right) + \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(x \cdot \left(1 + -1 \cdot x\right)\right)\right)} \]
                18. distribute-neg-inN/A

                  \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\left(\frac{1}{x} - 1\right) + x \cdot \left(1 + -1 \cdot x\right)\right)\right)} \]
                19. +-commutativeN/A

                  \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{\left(x \cdot \left(1 + -1 \cdot x\right) + \left(\frac{1}{x} - 1\right)\right)}\right) \]
              5. Applied rewrites45.0%

                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\frac{-1}{x} - x\right) \cdot \left(1 - x\right)} \]
              6. Taylor expanded in x around inf

                \[\leadsto {x}^{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(1 + \frac{1}{{x}^{2}}\right) - \frac{1}{x}\right)} \]
              7. Step-by-step derivation
                1. Applied rewrites2.5%

                  \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(x - 1, \color{blue}{x}, 1\right) \]
                2. Taylor expanded in x around 0

                  \[\leadsto 1 \]
                3. Step-by-step derivation
                  1. Applied rewrites3.1%

                    \[\leadsto 1 \]
                  2. Add Preprocessing

                  Developer Target 1: 99.9% accurate, 1.1× speedup?

                  \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\frac{-1}{x}}{x + 1} \end{array} \]
                  (FPCore (x) :precision binary64 (/ (/ -1.0 x) (+ x 1.0)))
                  double code(double x) {
                  	return (-1.0 / x) / (x + 1.0);
                  }
                  
                  real(8) function code(x)
                      real(8), intent (in) :: x
                      code = ((-1.0d0) / x) / (x + 1.0d0)
                  end function
                  
                  public static double code(double x) {
                  	return (-1.0 / x) / (x + 1.0);
                  }
                  
                  def code(x):
                  	return (-1.0 / x) / (x + 1.0)
                  
                  function code(x)
                  	return Float64(Float64(-1.0 / x) / Float64(x + 1.0))
                  end
                  
                  function tmp = code(x)
                  	tmp = (-1.0 / x) / (x + 1.0);
                  end
                  
                  code[x_] := N[(N[(-1.0 / x), $MachinePrecision] / N[(x + 1.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
                  
                  \begin{array}{l}
                  
                  \\
                  \frac{\frac{-1}{x}}{x + 1}
                  \end{array}
                  

                  Developer Target 2: 99.4% accurate, 1.5× speedup?

                  \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{1}{x \cdot \left(-1 - x\right)} \end{array} \]
                  (FPCore (x) :precision binary64 (/ 1.0 (* x (- -1.0 x))))
                  double code(double x) {
                  	return 1.0 / (x * (-1.0 - x));
                  }
                  
                  real(8) function code(x)
                      real(8), intent (in) :: x
                      code = 1.0d0 / (x * ((-1.0d0) - x))
                  end function
                  
                  public static double code(double x) {
                  	return 1.0 / (x * (-1.0 - x));
                  }
                  
                  def code(x):
                  	return 1.0 / (x * (-1.0 - x))
                  
                  function code(x)
                  	return Float64(1.0 / Float64(x * Float64(-1.0 - x)))
                  end
                  
                  function tmp = code(x)
                  	tmp = 1.0 / (x * (-1.0 - x));
                  end
                  
                  code[x_] := N[(1.0 / N[(x * N[(-1.0 - x), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
                  
                  \begin{array}{l}
                  
                  \\
                  \frac{1}{x \cdot \left(-1 - x\right)}
                  \end{array}
                  

                  Reproduce

                  ?
                  herbie shell --seed 2024240 
                  (FPCore (x)
                    :name "2frac (problem 3.3.1)"
                    :precision binary64
                  
                    :alt
                    (! :herbie-platform default (/ (/ -1 x) (+ x 1)))
                  
                    :alt
                    (! :herbie-platform default (/ 1 (* x (- -1 x))))
                  
                    (- (/ 1.0 (+ x 1.0)) (/ 1.0 x)))