2log (problem 3.3.6)

Percentage Accurate: 23.9% → 96.9%

Time: 7.9s

Alternatives: 6

Speedup: 17.3×

Specification

\[N > 1 \land N < 10^{+40}\]

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \log \left(N + 1\right) - \log N \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (N) :precision binary64 (- (log (+ N 1.0)) (log N)))

C

double code(double N) {
	return log((N + 1.0)) - log(N);
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(n)
    real(8), intent (in) :: n
    code = log((n + 1.0d0)) - log(n)
end function

Java

public static double code(double N) {
	return Math.log((N + 1.0)) - Math.log(N);
}

Python

def code(N):
	return math.log((N + 1.0)) - math.log(N)

Julia

function code(N)
	return Float64(log(Float64(N + 1.0)) - log(N))
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(N)
	tmp = log((N + 1.0)) - log(N);
end

Wolfram

code[N_] := N[(N[Log[N[(N + 1.0), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - N[Log[N], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]

Initial Program: 23.9% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \log \left(N + 1\right) - \log N \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (N) :precision binary64 (- (log (+ N 1.0)) (log N)))

C

double code(double N) {
	return log((N + 1.0)) - log(N);
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(n)
    real(8), intent (in) :: n
    code = log((n + 1.0d0)) - log(n)
end function

Java

public static double code(double N) {
	return Math.log((N + 1.0)) - Math.log(N);
}

Python

def code(N):
	return math.log((N + 1.0)) - math.log(N)

Julia

function code(N)
	return Float64(log(Float64(N + 1.0)) - log(N))
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(N)
	tmp = log((N + 1.0)) - log(N);
end

Wolfram

code[N_] := N[(N[Log[N[(N + 1.0), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - N[Log[N], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]

Alternative 1: 96.9% accurate, 3.2× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(-N, -1, \frac{\frac{\frac{0.041666666666666664}{N} - 0.08333333333333333}{N} - -0.5}{N} \cdot N\right)} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (N)
 :precision binary64
 (/
  1.0
  (fma
   (- N)
   -1.0
   (*
    (/ (- (/ (- (/ 0.041666666666666664 N) 0.08333333333333333) N) -0.5) N)
    N))))

C

double code(double N) {
	return 1.0 / fma(-N, -1.0, ((((((0.041666666666666664 / N) - 0.08333333333333333) / N) - -0.5) / N) * N));
}

Julia

function code(N)
	return Float64(1.0 / fma(Float64(-N), -1.0, Float64(Float64(Float64(Float64(Float64(Float64(0.041666666666666664 / N) - 0.08333333333333333) / N) - -0.5) / N) * N)))
end

Wolfram

code[N_] := N[(1.0 / N[((-N) * -1.0 + N[(N[(N[(N[(N[(N[(0.041666666666666664 / N), $MachinePrecision] - 0.08333333333333333), $MachinePrecision] / N), $MachinePrecision] - -0.5), $MachinePrecision] / N), $MachinePrecision] * N), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 21.8%

   \[\log \left(N + 1\right) - \log N \]
2. Add Preprocessing

3. Taylor expanded in N around inf

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(1 + \frac{\frac{1}{3}}{{N}^{2}}\right) - \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{N} + \frac{1}{4} \cdot \frac{1}{{N}^{3}}\right)}{N}} \]

5. Applied rewrites 97.9%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-0.5 - \frac{\frac{0.25}{N} - 0.3333333333333333}{N}}{N} - -1}{N}} \]
6. Step-by-step derivation

7. Applied rewrites 98.0%

   \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{N}{\frac{-0.5 - \frac{\frac{0.25}{N} - 0.3333333333333333}{N}}{N} - -1}}} \]

8. Taylor expanded in N around -inf

   \[\leadsto \frac{1}{-1 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(N \cdot \left(-1 \cdot \frac{\frac{1}{2} + -1 \cdot \frac{\frac{1}{12} - \frac{1}{24} \cdot \frac{1}{N}}{N}}{N} - 1\right)\right)}} \]
9. Step-by-step derivation

10. Applied rewrites 98.2%

    \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\left(-N\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(-1 - \frac{0.5 - \frac{0.08333333333333333 - \frac{0.041666666666666664}{N}}{N}}{N}\right)}} \]
11. Step-by-step derivation

12. Applied rewrites 98.3%

    \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(-N, -1, \left(-N\right) \cdot \frac{-0.5 + \frac{0.08333333333333333 - \frac{0.041666666666666664}{N}}{N}}{N}\right)} \]

13. Final simplification 98.3%

    \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(-N, -1, \frac{\frac{\frac{0.041666666666666664}{N} - 0.08333333333333333}{N} - -0.5}{N} \cdot N\right)} \]
14. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 2: 96.8% accurate, 3.7× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{1}{\left(1 - \frac{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(0.08333333333333333, N, -0.041666666666666664\right)}{N \cdot N} - 0.5}{N}\right) \cdot N} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (N)
 :precision binary64
 (/
  1.0
  (*
   (-
    1.0
    (/
     (- (/ (fma 0.08333333333333333 N -0.041666666666666664) (* N N)) 0.5)
     N))
   N)))

C

double code(double N) {
	return 1.0 / ((1.0 - (((fma(0.08333333333333333, N, -0.041666666666666664) / (N * N)) - 0.5) / N)) * N);
}

Julia

function code(N)
	return Float64(1.0 / Float64(Float64(1.0 - Float64(Float64(Float64(fma(0.08333333333333333, N, -0.041666666666666664) / Float64(N * N)) - 0.5) / N)) * N))
end

Wolfram

code[N_] := N[(1.0 / N[(N[(1.0 - N[(N[(N[(N[(0.08333333333333333 * N + -0.041666666666666664), $MachinePrecision] / N[(N * N), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - 0.5), $MachinePrecision] / N), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * N), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 21.8%

   \[\log \left(N + 1\right) - \log N \]
2. Add Preprocessing

3. Taylor expanded in N around inf

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(1 + \frac{\frac{1}{3}}{{N}^{2}}\right) - \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{N} + \frac{1}{4} \cdot \frac{1}{{N}^{3}}\right)}{N}} \]

5. Applied rewrites 97.9%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-0.5 - \frac{\frac{0.25}{N} - 0.3333333333333333}{N}}{N} - -1}{N}} \]
6. Step-by-step derivation

7. Applied rewrites 98.0%

   \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{N}{\frac{-0.5 - \frac{\frac{0.25}{N} - 0.3333333333333333}{N}}{N} - -1}}} \]

8. Taylor expanded in N around -inf

   \[\leadsto \frac{1}{-1 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(N \cdot \left(-1 \cdot \frac{\frac{1}{2} + -1 \cdot \frac{\frac{1}{12} - \frac{1}{24} \cdot \frac{1}{N}}{N}}{N} - 1\right)\right)}} \]
9. Step-by-step derivation

10. Applied rewrites 98.2%

    \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\left(-N\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(-1 - \frac{0.5 - \frac{0.08333333333333333 - \frac{0.041666666666666664}{N}}{N}}{N}\right)}} \]

11. Taylor expanded in N around 0

    \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\left(-N\right) \cdot \left(-1 - \frac{\frac{1}{2} - \frac{\frac{1}{12} \cdot N - \frac{1}{24}}{{N}^{2}}}{N}\right)} \]
12. Step-by-step derivation

13. Applied rewrites 98.2%

    \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\left(-N\right) \cdot \left(-1 - \frac{0.5 - \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(0.08333333333333333, N, -0.041666666666666664\right)}{N \cdot N}}{N}\right)} \]

14. Final simplification 98.2%

    \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\left(1 - \frac{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(0.08333333333333333, N, -0.041666666666666664\right)}{N \cdot N} - 0.5}{N}\right) \cdot N} \]
15. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 3: 96.7% accurate, 4.8× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{1}{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5 + N, N, -0.08333333333333333\right), N, 0.041666666666666664\right)}{N \cdot N}} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (N)
 :precision binary64
 (/
  1.0
  (/
   (fma (fma (+ 0.5 N) N -0.08333333333333333) N 0.041666666666666664)
   (* N N))))

C

double code(double N) {
	return 1.0 / (fma(fma((0.5 + N), N, -0.08333333333333333), N, 0.041666666666666664) / (N * N));
}

Julia

function code(N)
	return Float64(1.0 / Float64(fma(fma(Float64(0.5 + N), N, -0.08333333333333333), N, 0.041666666666666664) / Float64(N * N)))
end

Wolfram

code[N_] := N[(1.0 / N[(N[(N[(N[(0.5 + N), $MachinePrecision] * N + -0.08333333333333333), $MachinePrecision] * N + 0.041666666666666664), $MachinePrecision] / N[(N * N), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 21.8%

   \[\log \left(N + 1\right) - \log N \]
2. Add Preprocessing

3. Taylor expanded in N around inf

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(1 + \frac{\frac{1}{3}}{{N}^{2}}\right) - \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{N} + \frac{1}{4} \cdot \frac{1}{{N}^{3}}\right)}{N}} \]

5. Applied rewrites 97.9%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-0.5 - \frac{\frac{0.25}{N} - 0.3333333333333333}{N}}{N} - -1}{N}} \]
6. Step-by-step derivation

7. Applied rewrites 98.0%

   \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{N}{\frac{-0.5 - \frac{\frac{0.25}{N} - 0.3333333333333333}{N}}{N} - -1}}} \]

8. Taylor expanded in N around -inf

   \[\leadsto \frac{1}{-1 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(N \cdot \left(-1 \cdot \frac{\frac{1}{2} + -1 \cdot \frac{\frac{1}{12} - \frac{1}{24} \cdot \frac{1}{N}}{N}}{N} - 1\right)\right)}} \]
9. Step-by-step derivation

10. Applied rewrites 98.2%

    \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\left(-N\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(-1 - \frac{0.5 - \frac{0.08333333333333333 - \frac{0.041666666666666664}{N}}{N}}{N}\right)}} \]

11. Taylor expanded in N around 0

    \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{\frac{1}{24} + N \cdot \left(N \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} + N\right) - \frac{1}{12}\right)}{{N}^{\color{blue}{2}}}} \]
12. Step-by-step derivation

13. Applied rewrites 98.0%

    \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5 + N, N, -0.08333333333333333\right), N, 0.041666666666666664\right)}{N \cdot \color{blue}{N}}} \]
14. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 4: 95.1% accurate, 5.2× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\frac{\frac{0.3333333333333333}{N} - 0.5}{N} - -1}{N} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (N)
 :precision binary64
 (/ (- (/ (- (/ 0.3333333333333333 N) 0.5) N) -1.0) N))

C

double code(double N) {
	return ((((0.3333333333333333 / N) - 0.5) / N) - -1.0) / N;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(n)
    real(8), intent (in) :: n
    code = ((((0.3333333333333333d0 / n) - 0.5d0) / n) - (-1.0d0)) / n
end function

Java

public static double code(double N) {
	return ((((0.3333333333333333 / N) - 0.5) / N) - -1.0) / N;
}

Python

def code(N):
	return ((((0.3333333333333333 / N) - 0.5) / N) - -1.0) / N

Julia

function code(N)
	return Float64(Float64(Float64(Float64(Float64(0.3333333333333333 / N) - 0.5) / N) - -1.0) / N)
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(N)
	tmp = ((((0.3333333333333333 / N) - 0.5) / N) - -1.0) / N;
end

Wolfram

code[N_] := N[(N[(N[(N[(N[(0.3333333333333333 / N), $MachinePrecision] - 0.5), $MachinePrecision] / N), $MachinePrecision] - -1.0), $MachinePrecision] / N), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 21.8%

   \[\log \left(N + 1\right) - \log N \]
2. Add Preprocessing

3. Taylor expanded in N around inf

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(1 + \frac{\frac{1}{3}}{{N}^{2}}\right) - \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{N}}{N}} \]
4. Step-by-step derivation

   1. lower-/.f64 N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(1 + \frac{\frac{1}{3}}{{N}^{2}}\right) - \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{N}}{N}} \]

   2. associate--l+ N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{1 + \left(\frac{\frac{1}{3}}{{N}^{2}} - \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{N}\right)}}{N} \]

   3. +-commutative N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left(\frac{\frac{1}{3}}{{N}^{2}} - \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{N}\right) + 1}}{N} \]

   4. unpow2 N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\left(\frac{\frac{1}{3}}{\color{blue}{N \cdot N}} - \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{N}\right) + 1}{N} \]

   5. associate-/r* N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\left(\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{\frac{1}{3}}{N}}{N}} - \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{N}\right) + 1}{N} \]

   6. metadata-eval N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\left(\frac{\frac{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{3} \cdot 1}}{N}}{N} - \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{N}\right) + 1}{N} \]

   7. associate-*r/ N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\left(\frac{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{3} \cdot \frac{1}{N}}}{N} - \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{N}\right) + 1}{N} \]

   8. associate-*r/ N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\left(\frac{\frac{1}{3} \cdot \frac{1}{N}}{N} - \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{2} \cdot 1}{N}}\right) + 1}{N} \]

   9. metadata-eval N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\left(\frac{\frac{1}{3} \cdot \frac{1}{N}}{N} - \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{2}}}{N}\right) + 1}{N} \]

   10. div-sub N/A

       \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{3} \cdot \frac{1}{N} - \frac{1}{2}}{N}} + 1}{N} \]

   11. metadata-eval N/A

       \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\frac{1}{3} \cdot \frac{1}{N} - \frac{1}{2}}{N} + \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(-1\right)\right)}}{N} \]

   12. sub-neg N/A

       \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{3} \cdot \frac{1}{N} - \frac{1}{2}}{N} - -1}}{N} \]

   13. lower--.f64 N/A

       \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{3} \cdot \frac{1}{N} - \frac{1}{2}}{N} - -1}}{N} \]

   14. lower-/.f64 N/A

       \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{3} \cdot \frac{1}{N} - \frac{1}{2}}{N}} - -1}{N} \]

   15. lower--.f64 N/A

       \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{3} \cdot \frac{1}{N} - \frac{1}{2}}}{N} - -1}{N} \]

   16. associate-*r/ N/A

       \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{3} \cdot 1}{N}} - \frac{1}{2}}{N} - -1}{N} \]

   17. metadata-eval N/A

       \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\frac{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{3}}}{N} - \frac{1}{2}}{N} - -1}{N} \]

   18. lower-/.f64 96.8

       \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\color{blue}{\frac{0.3333333333333333}{N}} - 0.5}{N} - -1}{N} \]

5. Applied rewrites 96.8%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{\frac{0.3333333333333333}{N} - 0.5}{N} - -1}{N}} \]
6. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 5: 93.0% accurate, 13.8× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{1}{0.5 + N} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (N) :precision binary64 (/ 1.0 (+ 0.5 N)))

C

double code(double N) {
	return 1.0 / (0.5 + N);
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(n)
    real(8), intent (in) :: n
    code = 1.0d0 / (0.5d0 + n)
end function

Java

public static double code(double N) {
	return 1.0 / (0.5 + N);
}

Python

def code(N):
	return 1.0 / (0.5 + N)

Julia

function code(N)
	return Float64(1.0 / Float64(0.5 + N))
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(N)
	tmp = 1.0 / (0.5 + N);
end

Wolfram

code[N_] := N[(1.0 / N[(0.5 + N), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 21.8%

   \[\log \left(N + 1\right) - \log N \]
2. Add Preprocessing

3. Taylor expanded in N around inf

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(1 + \frac{\frac{1}{3}}{{N}^{2}}\right) - \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{N} + \frac{1}{4} \cdot \frac{1}{{N}^{3}}\right)}{N}} \]

5. Applied rewrites 97.9%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-0.5 - \frac{\frac{0.25}{N} - 0.3333333333333333}{N}}{N} - -1}{N}} \]
6. Step-by-step derivation

7. Applied rewrites 98.0%

   \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{N}{\frac{-0.5 - \frac{\frac{0.25}{N} - 0.3333333333333333}{N}}{N} - -1}}} \]

8. Taylor expanded in N around inf

   \[\leadsto \frac{1}{N \cdot \color{blue}{\left(1 + \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{N}\right)}} \]
9. Step-by-step derivation

10. Applied rewrites 94.9%

    \[\leadsto \frac{1}{0.5 + \color{blue}{N}} \]
11. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 6: 84.3% accurate, 17.3× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{1}{N} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (N) :precision binary64 (/ 1.0 N))

C

double code(double N) {
	return 1.0 / N;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(n)
    real(8), intent (in) :: n
    code = 1.0d0 / n
end function

Java

public static double code(double N) {
	return 1.0 / N;
}

Python

def code(N):
	return 1.0 / N

Julia

function code(N)
	return Float64(1.0 / N)
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(N)
	tmp = 1.0 / N;
end

Wolfram

code[N_] := N[(1.0 / N), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 21.8%

   \[\log \left(N + 1\right) - \log N \]
2. Add Preprocessing

3. Taylor expanded in N around inf

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{N}} \]
4. Step-by-step derivation

   1. lower-/.f64 86.2

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{N}} \]

5. Applied rewrites 86.2%

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

Developer Target 1: 96.4% accurate, 0.6× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \left(\left(\frac{1}{N} + \frac{-1}{2 \cdot {N}^{2}}\right) + \frac{1}{3 \cdot {N}^{3}}\right) + \frac{-1}{4 \cdot {N}^{4}} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (N)
 :precision binary64
 (+
  (+ (+ (/ 1.0 N) (/ -1.0 (* 2.0 (pow N 2.0)))) (/ 1.0 (* 3.0 (pow N 3.0))))
  (/ -1.0 (* 4.0 (pow N 4.0)))))

C

double code(double N) {
	return (((1.0 / N) + (-1.0 / (2.0 * pow(N, 2.0)))) + (1.0 / (3.0 * pow(N, 3.0)))) + (-1.0 / (4.0 * pow(N, 4.0)));
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(n)
    real(8), intent (in) :: n
    code = (((1.0d0 / n) + ((-1.0d0) / (2.0d0 * (n ** 2.0d0)))) + (1.0d0 / (3.0d0 * (n ** 3.0d0)))) + ((-1.0d0) / (4.0d0 * (n ** 4.0d0)))
end function

Java

public static double code(double N) {
	return (((1.0 / N) + (-1.0 / (2.0 * Math.pow(N, 2.0)))) + (1.0 / (3.0 * Math.pow(N, 3.0)))) + (-1.0 / (4.0 * Math.pow(N, 4.0)));
}

Python

def code(N):
	return (((1.0 / N) + (-1.0 / (2.0 * math.pow(N, 2.0)))) + (1.0 / (3.0 * math.pow(N, 3.0)))) + (-1.0 / (4.0 * math.pow(N, 4.0)))

Julia

function code(N)
	return Float64(Float64(Float64(Float64(1.0 / N) + Float64(-1.0 / Float64(2.0 * (N ^ 2.0)))) + Float64(1.0 / Float64(3.0 * (N ^ 3.0)))) + Float64(-1.0 / Float64(4.0 * (N ^ 4.0))))
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(N)
	tmp = (((1.0 / N) + (-1.0 / (2.0 * (N ^ 2.0)))) + (1.0 / (3.0 * (N ^ 3.0)))) + (-1.0 / (4.0 * (N ^ 4.0)));
end

Wolfram

code[N_] := N[(N[(N[(N[(1.0 / N), $MachinePrecision] + N[(-1.0 / N[(2.0 * N[Power[N, 2.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[(1.0 / N[(3.0 * N[Power[N, 3.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[(-1.0 / N[(4.0 * N[Power[N, 4.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2024255 
(FPCore (N)
  :name "2log (problem 3.3.6)"
  :precision binary64
  :pre (and (> N 1.0) (< N 1e+40))

  :alt
  (! :herbie-platform default (+ (/ 1 N) (/ -1 (* 2 (pow N 2))) (/ 1 (* 3 (pow N 3))) (/ -1 (* 4 (pow N 4)))))

  (- (log (+ N 1.0)) (log N)))