2log (problem 3.3.6)

Percentage Accurate: 24.5% → 99.4%
Time: 8.4s
Alternatives: 8
Speedup: 17.3×

Specification

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\[N > 1 \land N < 10^{+40}\]
\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \log \left(N + 1\right) - \log N \end{array} \]
(FPCore (N) :precision binary64 (- (log (+ N 1.0)) (log N)))
double code(double N) {
	return log((N + 1.0)) - log(N);
}
real(8) function code(n)
    real(8), intent (in) :: n
    code = log((n + 1.0d0)) - log(n)
end function
public static double code(double N) {
	return Math.log((N + 1.0)) - Math.log(N);
}
def code(N):
	return math.log((N + 1.0)) - math.log(N)
function code(N)
	return Float64(log(Float64(N + 1.0)) - log(N))
end
function tmp = code(N)
	tmp = log((N + 1.0)) - log(N);
end
code[N_] := N[(N[Log[N[(N + 1.0), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - N[Log[N], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\log \left(N + 1\right) - \log N
\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 8 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: 24.5% accurate, 1.0× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \log \left(N + 1\right) - \log N \end{array} \]
(FPCore (N) :precision binary64 (- (log (+ N 1.0)) (log N)))
double code(double N) {
	return log((N + 1.0)) - log(N);
}
real(8) function code(n)
    real(8), intent (in) :: n
    code = log((n + 1.0d0)) - log(n)
end function
public static double code(double N) {
	return Math.log((N + 1.0)) - Math.log(N);
}
def code(N):
	return math.log((N + 1.0)) - math.log(N)
function code(N)
	return Float64(log(Float64(N + 1.0)) - log(N))
end
function tmp = code(N)
	tmp = log((N + 1.0)) - log(N);
end
code[N_] := N[(N[Log[N[(N + 1.0), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - N[Log[N], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\log \left(N + 1\right) - \log N
\end{array}

Alternative 1: 99.4% accurate, 0.6× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\log \left(1 + N\right) - \log N \leq 0.001:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{\frac{N}{\frac{-0.5 - \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.3333333333333333, N, 0.25\right)}{N \cdot N}}{N} - -1}}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-\log \left(\frac{N}{1 + N}\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (N)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (- (log (+ 1.0 N)) (log N)) 0.001)
   (/
    1.0
    (/ N (- (/ (- -0.5 (/ (fma -0.3333333333333333 N 0.25) (* N N))) N) -1.0)))
   (- (log (/ N (+ 1.0 N))))))
double code(double N) {
	double tmp;
	if ((log((1.0 + N)) - log(N)) <= 0.001) {
		tmp = 1.0 / (N / (((-0.5 - (fma(-0.3333333333333333, N, 0.25) / (N * N))) / N) - -1.0));
	} else {
		tmp = -log((N / (1.0 + N)));
	}
	return tmp;
}
function code(N)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(log(Float64(1.0 + N)) - log(N)) <= 0.001)
		tmp = Float64(1.0 / Float64(N / Float64(Float64(Float64(-0.5 - Float64(fma(-0.3333333333333333, N, 0.25) / Float64(N * N))) / N) - -1.0)));
	else
		tmp = Float64(-log(Float64(N / Float64(1.0 + N))));
	end
	return tmp
end
code[N_] := If[LessEqual[N[(N[Log[N[(1.0 + N), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - N[Log[N], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], 0.001], N[(1.0 / N[(N / N[(N[(N[(-0.5 - N[(N[(-0.3333333333333333 * N + 0.25), $MachinePrecision] / N[(N * N), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N), $MachinePrecision] - -1.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], (-N[Log[N[(N / N[(1.0 + N), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision])]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\begin{array}{l}
\mathbf{if}\;\log \left(1 + N\right) - \log N \leq 0.001:\\
\;\;\;\;\frac{1}{\frac{N}{\frac{-0.5 - \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.3333333333333333, N, 0.25\right)}{N \cdot N}}{N} - -1}}\\

\mathbf{else}:\\
\;\;\;\;-\log \left(\frac{N}{1 + N}\right)\\


\end{array}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Split input into 2 regimes
  2. if (-.f64 (log.f64 (+.f64 N #s(literal 1 binary64))) (log.f64 N)) < 1e-3

    1. Initial program 18.6%

      \[\log \left(N + 1\right) - \log N \]
    2. Add Preprocessing
    3. Taylor expanded in N around inf

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(1 + \frac{\frac{1}{3}}{{N}^{2}}\right) - \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{N} + \frac{1}{4} \cdot \frac{1}{{N}^{3}}\right)}{N}} \]
    4. Applied rewrites99.7%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-0.5 - \frac{\frac{0.25}{N} - 0.3333333333333333}{N}}{N} - -1}{N}} \]
    5. Step-by-step derivation
      1. Applied rewrites99.8%

        \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{N}{\frac{-0.5 - \frac{\frac{0.25}{N} - 0.3333333333333333}{N}}{N} - -1}}} \]
      2. Taylor expanded in N around 0

        \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{N}{\frac{\frac{-1}{2} - \frac{\frac{1}{4} + \frac{-1}{3} \cdot N}{{N}^{2}}}{N} - -1}} \]
      3. Step-by-step derivation
        1. Applied rewrites99.8%

          \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{N}{\frac{-0.5 - \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.3333333333333333, N, 0.25\right)}{N \cdot N}}{N} - -1}} \]

        if 1e-3 < (-.f64 (log.f64 (+.f64 N #s(literal 1 binary64))) (log.f64 N))

        1. Initial program 93.2%

          \[\log \left(N + 1\right) - \log N \]
        2. Add Preprocessing
        3. Step-by-step derivation
          1. lift--.f64N/A

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(N + 1\right) - \log N} \]
          2. lift-log.f64N/A

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(N + 1\right)} - \log N \]
          3. lift-log.f64N/A

            \[\leadsto \log \left(N + 1\right) - \color{blue}{\log N} \]
          4. diff-logN/A

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(\frac{N + 1}{N}\right)} \]
          5. clear-numN/A

            \[\leadsto \log \color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{\frac{N}{N + 1}}\right)} \]
          6. clear-numN/A

            \[\leadsto \log \color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{\frac{\frac{N}{N + 1}}{1}}\right)} \]
          7. log-recN/A

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{neg}\left(\log \left(\frac{\frac{N}{N + 1}}{1}\right)\right)} \]
          8. lower-neg.f64N/A

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-\log \left(\frac{\frac{N}{N + 1}}{1}\right)} \]
          9. lower-log.f64N/A

            \[\leadsto -\color{blue}{\log \left(\frac{\frac{N}{N + 1}}{1}\right)} \]
          10. lower-/.f64N/A

            \[\leadsto -\log \color{blue}{\left(\frac{\frac{N}{N + 1}}{1}\right)} \]
          11. lower-/.f6495.5

            \[\leadsto -\log \left(\frac{\color{blue}{\frac{N}{N + 1}}}{1}\right) \]
          12. lift-+.f64N/A

            \[\leadsto -\log \left(\frac{\frac{N}{\color{blue}{N + 1}}}{1}\right) \]
          13. +-commutativeN/A

            \[\leadsto -\log \left(\frac{\frac{N}{\color{blue}{1 + N}}}{1}\right) \]
          14. lower-+.f6495.5

            \[\leadsto -\log \left(\frac{\frac{N}{\color{blue}{1 + N}}}{1}\right) \]
        4. Applied rewrites95.5%

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-\log \left(\frac{\frac{N}{1 + N}}{1}\right)} \]
        5. Step-by-step derivation
          1. lift-/.f64N/A

            \[\leadsto -\log \color{blue}{\left(\frac{\frac{N}{1 + N}}{1}\right)} \]
          2. /-rgt-identity95.5

            \[\leadsto -\log \color{blue}{\left(\frac{N}{1 + N}\right)} \]
        6. Applied rewrites95.5%

          \[\leadsto -\log \color{blue}{\left(\frac{N}{1 + N}\right)} \]
      4. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
      5. Final simplification99.5%

        \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\log \left(1 + N\right) - \log N \leq 0.001:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{\frac{N}{\frac{-0.5 - \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.3333333333333333, N, 0.25\right)}{N \cdot N}}{N} - -1}}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-\log \left(\frac{N}{1 + N}\right)\\ \end{array} \]
      6. Add Preprocessing

      Alternative 2: 99.3% accurate, 0.6× speedup?

      \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\log \left(1 + N\right) - \log N \leq 0.001:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{\frac{N}{\frac{-0.5 - \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.3333333333333333, N, 0.25\right)}{N \cdot N}}{N} - -1}}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\log \left(\frac{1 + N}{N}\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]
      (FPCore (N)
       :precision binary64
       (if (<= (- (log (+ 1.0 N)) (log N)) 0.001)
         (/
          1.0
          (/ N (- (/ (- -0.5 (/ (fma -0.3333333333333333 N 0.25) (* N N))) N) -1.0)))
         (log (/ (+ 1.0 N) N))))
      double code(double N) {
      	double tmp;
      	if ((log((1.0 + N)) - log(N)) <= 0.001) {
      		tmp = 1.0 / (N / (((-0.5 - (fma(-0.3333333333333333, N, 0.25) / (N * N))) / N) - -1.0));
      	} else {
      		tmp = log(((1.0 + N) / N));
      	}
      	return tmp;
      }
      
      function code(N)
      	tmp = 0.0
      	if (Float64(log(Float64(1.0 + N)) - log(N)) <= 0.001)
      		tmp = Float64(1.0 / Float64(N / Float64(Float64(Float64(-0.5 - Float64(fma(-0.3333333333333333, N, 0.25) / Float64(N * N))) / N) - -1.0)));
      	else
      		tmp = log(Float64(Float64(1.0 + N) / N));
      	end
      	return tmp
      end
      
      code[N_] := If[LessEqual[N[(N[Log[N[(1.0 + N), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - N[Log[N], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], 0.001], N[(1.0 / N[(N / N[(N[(N[(-0.5 - N[(N[(-0.3333333333333333 * N + 0.25), $MachinePrecision] / N[(N * N), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N), $MachinePrecision] - -1.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[Log[N[(N[(1.0 + N), $MachinePrecision] / N), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]]
      
      \begin{array}{l}
      
      \\
      \begin{array}{l}
      \mathbf{if}\;\log \left(1 + N\right) - \log N \leq 0.001:\\
      \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{\frac{N}{\frac{-0.5 - \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.3333333333333333, N, 0.25\right)}{N \cdot N}}{N} - -1}}\\
      
      \mathbf{else}:\\
      \;\;\;\;\log \left(\frac{1 + N}{N}\right)\\
      
      
      \end{array}
      \end{array}
      
      Derivation
      1. Split input into 2 regimes
      2. if (-.f64 (log.f64 (+.f64 N #s(literal 1 binary64))) (log.f64 N)) < 1e-3

        1. Initial program 18.6%

          \[\log \left(N + 1\right) - \log N \]
        2. Add Preprocessing
        3. Taylor expanded in N around inf

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(1 + \frac{\frac{1}{3}}{{N}^{2}}\right) - \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{N} + \frac{1}{4} \cdot \frac{1}{{N}^{3}}\right)}{N}} \]
        4. Applied rewrites99.7%

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-0.5 - \frac{\frac{0.25}{N} - 0.3333333333333333}{N}}{N} - -1}{N}} \]
        5. Step-by-step derivation
          1. Applied rewrites99.8%

            \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{N}{\frac{-0.5 - \frac{\frac{0.25}{N} - 0.3333333333333333}{N}}{N} - -1}}} \]
          2. Taylor expanded in N around 0

            \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{N}{\frac{\frac{-1}{2} - \frac{\frac{1}{4} + \frac{-1}{3} \cdot N}{{N}^{2}}}{N} - -1}} \]
          3. Step-by-step derivation
            1. Applied rewrites99.8%

              \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{N}{\frac{-0.5 - \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.3333333333333333, N, 0.25\right)}{N \cdot N}}{N} - -1}} \]

            if 1e-3 < (-.f64 (log.f64 (+.f64 N #s(literal 1 binary64))) (log.f64 N))

            1. Initial program 93.2%

              \[\log \left(N + 1\right) - \log N \]
            2. Add Preprocessing
            3. Step-by-step derivation
              1. lift--.f64N/A

                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(N + 1\right) - \log N} \]
              2. lift-log.f64N/A

                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(N + 1\right)} - \log N \]
              3. lift-log.f64N/A

                \[\leadsto \log \left(N + 1\right) - \color{blue}{\log N} \]
              4. diff-logN/A

                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(\frac{N + 1}{N}\right)} \]
              5. lower-log.f64N/A

                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(\frac{N + 1}{N}\right)} \]
              6. lower-/.f6494.9

                \[\leadsto \log \color{blue}{\left(\frac{N + 1}{N}\right)} \]
              7. lift-+.f64N/A

                \[\leadsto \log \left(\frac{\color{blue}{N + 1}}{N}\right) \]
              8. +-commutativeN/A

                \[\leadsto \log \left(\frac{\color{blue}{1 + N}}{N}\right) \]
              9. lower-+.f6494.9

                \[\leadsto \log \left(\frac{\color{blue}{1 + N}}{N}\right) \]
            4. Applied rewrites94.9%

              \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(\frac{1 + N}{N}\right)} \]
          4. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
          5. Final simplification99.4%

            \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\log \left(1 + N\right) - \log N \leq 0.001:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{\frac{N}{\frac{-0.5 - \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.3333333333333333, N, 0.25\right)}{N \cdot N}}{N} - -1}}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\log \left(\frac{1 + N}{N}\right)\\ \end{array} \]
          6. Add Preprocessing

          Alternative 3: 96.4% accurate, 3.5× speedup?

          \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{1}{\left(1 + \frac{0.5 - \frac{0.08333333333333333 - \frac{0.041666666666666664}{N}}{N}}{N}\right) \cdot N} \end{array} \]
          (FPCore (N)
           :precision binary64
           (/
            1.0
            (*
             (+
              1.0
              (/ (- 0.5 (/ (- 0.08333333333333333 (/ 0.041666666666666664 N)) N)) N))
             N)))
          double code(double N) {
          	return 1.0 / ((1.0 + ((0.5 - ((0.08333333333333333 - (0.041666666666666664 / N)) / N)) / N)) * N);
          }
          
          real(8) function code(n)
              real(8), intent (in) :: n
              code = 1.0d0 / ((1.0d0 + ((0.5d0 - ((0.08333333333333333d0 - (0.041666666666666664d0 / n)) / n)) / n)) * n)
          end function
          
          public static double code(double N) {
          	return 1.0 / ((1.0 + ((0.5 - ((0.08333333333333333 - (0.041666666666666664 / N)) / N)) / N)) * N);
          }
          
          def code(N):
          	return 1.0 / ((1.0 + ((0.5 - ((0.08333333333333333 - (0.041666666666666664 / N)) / N)) / N)) * N)
          
          function code(N)
          	return Float64(1.0 / Float64(Float64(1.0 + Float64(Float64(0.5 - Float64(Float64(0.08333333333333333 - Float64(0.041666666666666664 / N)) / N)) / N)) * N))
          end
          
          function tmp = code(N)
          	tmp = 1.0 / ((1.0 + ((0.5 - ((0.08333333333333333 - (0.041666666666666664 / N)) / N)) / N)) * N);
          end
          
          code[N_] := N[(1.0 / N[(N[(1.0 + N[(N[(0.5 - N[(N[(0.08333333333333333 - N[(0.041666666666666664 / N), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * N), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
          
          \begin{array}{l}
          
          \\
          \frac{1}{\left(1 + \frac{0.5 - \frac{0.08333333333333333 - \frac{0.041666666666666664}{N}}{N}}{N}\right) \cdot N}
          \end{array}
          
          Derivation
          1. Initial program 23.6%

            \[\log \left(N + 1\right) - \log N \]
          2. Add Preprocessing
          3. Taylor expanded in N around inf

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(1 + \frac{\frac{1}{3}}{{N}^{2}}\right) - \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{N} + \frac{1}{4} \cdot \frac{1}{{N}^{3}}\right)}{N}} \]
          4. Applied rewrites96.7%

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-0.5 - \frac{\frac{0.25}{N} - 0.3333333333333333}{N}}{N} - -1}{N}} \]
          5. Step-by-step derivation
            1. Applied rewrites96.7%

              \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{N}{\frac{-0.5 - \frac{\frac{0.25}{N} - 0.3333333333333333}{N}}{N} - -1}}} \]
            2. Taylor expanded in N around -inf

              \[\leadsto \frac{1}{-1 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(N \cdot \left(-1 \cdot \frac{\frac{1}{2} + -1 \cdot \frac{\frac{1}{12} - \frac{1}{24} \cdot \frac{1}{N}}{N}}{N} - 1\right)\right)}} \]
            3. Step-by-step derivation
              1. Applied rewrites97.0%

                \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{0.5 - \frac{0.08333333333333333 - \frac{0.041666666666666664}{N}}{N}}{N}, -1, -1\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(-N\right)}} \]
              2. Step-by-step derivation
                1. Applied rewrites97.0%

                  \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\left(1 + \frac{0.5 - \frac{0.08333333333333333 - \frac{0.041666666666666664}{N}}{N}}{N}\right) \cdot N} \]
                2. Add Preprocessing

                Alternative 4: 96.3% accurate, 4.8× speedup?

                \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{1}{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5 + N, N, -0.08333333333333333\right), N, 0.041666666666666664\right)}{N \cdot N}} \end{array} \]
                (FPCore (N)
                 :precision binary64
                 (/
                  1.0
                  (/
                   (fma (fma (+ 0.5 N) N -0.08333333333333333) N 0.041666666666666664)
                   (* N N))))
                double code(double N) {
                	return 1.0 / (fma(fma((0.5 + N), N, -0.08333333333333333), N, 0.041666666666666664) / (N * N));
                }
                
                function code(N)
                	return Float64(1.0 / Float64(fma(fma(Float64(0.5 + N), N, -0.08333333333333333), N, 0.041666666666666664) / Float64(N * N)))
                end
                
                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]
                
                \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}
                
                Derivation
                1. Initial program 23.6%

                  \[\log \left(N + 1\right) - \log N \]
                2. Add Preprocessing
                3. Taylor expanded in N around inf

                  \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(1 + \frac{\frac{1}{3}}{{N}^{2}}\right) - \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{N} + \frac{1}{4} \cdot \frac{1}{{N}^{3}}\right)}{N}} \]
                4. Applied rewrites96.7%

                  \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-0.5 - \frac{\frac{0.25}{N} - 0.3333333333333333}{N}}{N} - -1}{N}} \]
                5. Step-by-step derivation
                  1. Applied rewrites96.7%

                    \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{N}{\frac{-0.5 - \frac{\frac{0.25}{N} - 0.3333333333333333}{N}}{N} - -1}}} \]
                  2. Taylor expanded in N around -inf

                    \[\leadsto \frac{1}{-1 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(N \cdot \left(-1 \cdot \frac{\frac{1}{2} + -1 \cdot \frac{\frac{1}{12} - \frac{1}{24} \cdot \frac{1}{N}}{N}}{N} - 1\right)\right)}} \]
                  3. Step-by-step derivation
                    1. Applied rewrites97.0%

                      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{0.5 - \frac{0.08333333333333333 - \frac{0.041666666666666664}{N}}{N}}{N}, -1, -1\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(-N\right)}} \]
                    2. Taylor expanded in N around 0

                      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{\frac{1}{24} + N \cdot \left(N \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} + N\right) - \frac{1}{12}\right)}{{N}^{\color{blue}{2}}}} \]
                    3. Step-by-step derivation
                      1. Applied rewrites96.9%

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

                      Alternative 5: 94.6% accurate, 5.2× speedup?

                      \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\frac{\frac{0.3333333333333333}{N} - 0.5}{N} - -1}{N} \end{array} \]
                      (FPCore (N)
                       :precision binary64
                       (/ (- (/ (- (/ 0.3333333333333333 N) 0.5) N) -1.0) N))
                      double code(double N) {
                      	return ((((0.3333333333333333 / N) - 0.5) / N) - -1.0) / N;
                      }
                      
                      real(8) function code(n)
                          real(8), intent (in) :: n
                          code = ((((0.3333333333333333d0 / n) - 0.5d0) / n) - (-1.0d0)) / n
                      end function
                      
                      public static double code(double N) {
                      	return ((((0.3333333333333333 / N) - 0.5) / N) - -1.0) / N;
                      }
                      
                      def code(N):
                      	return ((((0.3333333333333333 / N) - 0.5) / N) - -1.0) / N
                      
                      function code(N)
                      	return Float64(Float64(Float64(Float64(Float64(0.3333333333333333 / N) - 0.5) / N) - -1.0) / N)
                      end
                      
                      function tmp = code(N)
                      	tmp = ((((0.3333333333333333 / N) - 0.5) / N) - -1.0) / N;
                      end
                      
                      code[N_] := N[(N[(N[(N[(N[(0.3333333333333333 / N), $MachinePrecision] - 0.5), $MachinePrecision] / N), $MachinePrecision] - -1.0), $MachinePrecision] / N), $MachinePrecision]
                      
                      \begin{array}{l}
                      
                      \\
                      \frac{\frac{\frac{0.3333333333333333}{N} - 0.5}{N} - -1}{N}
                      \end{array}
                      
                      Derivation
                      1. Initial program 23.6%

                        \[\log \left(N + 1\right) - \log N \]
                      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-/.f64N/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. +-commutativeN/A

                          \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left(\frac{\frac{1}{3}}{{N}^{2}} - \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{N}\right) + 1}}{N} \]
                        4. unpow2N/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-evalN/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-evalN/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-subN/A

                          \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{3} \cdot \frac{1}{N} - \frac{1}{2}}{N}} + 1}{N} \]
                        11. metadata-evalN/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-negN/A

                          \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{3} \cdot \frac{1}{N} - \frac{1}{2}}{N} - -1}}{N} \]
                        13. lower--.f64N/A

                          \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{3} \cdot \frac{1}{N} - \frac{1}{2}}{N} - -1}}{N} \]
                        14. lower-/.f64N/A

                          \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{3} \cdot \frac{1}{N} - \frac{1}{2}}{N}} - -1}{N} \]
                        15. lower--.f64N/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-evalN/A

                          \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\frac{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{3}}}{N} - \frac{1}{2}}{N} - -1}{N} \]
                        18. lower-/.f6495.4

                          \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\color{blue}{\frac{0.3333333333333333}{N}} - 0.5}{N} - -1}{N} \]
                      5. Applied rewrites95.4%

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

                      Alternative 6: 92.5% accurate, 13.8× speedup?

                      \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{1}{0.5 + N} \end{array} \]
                      (FPCore (N) :precision binary64 (/ 1.0 (+ 0.5 N)))
                      double code(double N) {
                      	return 1.0 / (0.5 + N);
                      }
                      
                      real(8) function code(n)
                          real(8), intent (in) :: n
                          code = 1.0d0 / (0.5d0 + n)
                      end function
                      
                      public static double code(double N) {
                      	return 1.0 / (0.5 + N);
                      }
                      
                      def code(N):
                      	return 1.0 / (0.5 + N)
                      
                      function code(N)
                      	return Float64(1.0 / Float64(0.5 + N))
                      end
                      
                      function tmp = code(N)
                      	tmp = 1.0 / (0.5 + N);
                      end
                      
                      code[N_] := N[(1.0 / N[(0.5 + N), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
                      
                      \begin{array}{l}
                      
                      \\
                      \frac{1}{0.5 + N}
                      \end{array}
                      
                      Derivation
                      1. Initial program 23.6%

                        \[\log \left(N + 1\right) - \log N \]
                      2. Add Preprocessing
                      3. Taylor expanded in N around inf

                        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(1 + \frac{\frac{1}{3}}{{N}^{2}}\right) - \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{N} + \frac{1}{4} \cdot \frac{1}{{N}^{3}}\right)}{N}} \]
                      4. Applied rewrites96.7%

                        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-0.5 - \frac{\frac{0.25}{N} - 0.3333333333333333}{N}}{N} - -1}{N}} \]
                      5. Step-by-step derivation
                        1. Applied rewrites96.7%

                          \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{N}{\frac{-0.5 - \frac{\frac{0.25}{N} - 0.3333333333333333}{N}}{N} - -1}}} \]
                        2. Taylor expanded in N around inf

                          \[\leadsto \frac{1}{N \cdot \color{blue}{\left(1 + \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{N}\right)}} \]
                        3. Step-by-step derivation
                          1. Applied rewrites93.3%

                            \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{0.5}{N}, \color{blue}{N}, N\right)} \]
                          2. Step-by-step derivation
                            1. Applied rewrites93.3%

                              \[\leadsto \frac{1}{N + 0.5} \]
                            2. Final simplification93.3%

                              \[\leadsto \frac{1}{0.5 + N} \]
                            3. Add Preprocessing

                            Alternative 7: 83.9% accurate, 17.3× speedup?

                            \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{1}{N} \end{array} \]
                            (FPCore (N) :precision binary64 (/ 1.0 N))
                            double code(double N) {
                            	return 1.0 / N;
                            }
                            
                            real(8) function code(n)
                                real(8), intent (in) :: n
                                code = 1.0d0 / n
                            end function
                            
                            public static double code(double N) {
                            	return 1.0 / N;
                            }
                            
                            def code(N):
                            	return 1.0 / N
                            
                            function code(N)
                            	return Float64(1.0 / N)
                            end
                            
                            function tmp = code(N)
                            	tmp = 1.0 / N;
                            end
                            
                            code[N_] := N[(1.0 / N), $MachinePrecision]
                            
                            \begin{array}{l}
                            
                            \\
                            \frac{1}{N}
                            \end{array}
                            
                            Derivation
                            1. Initial program 23.6%

                              \[\log \left(N + 1\right) - \log N \]
                            2. Add Preprocessing
                            3. Taylor expanded in N around inf

                              \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{N}} \]
                            4. Step-by-step derivation
                              1. lower-/.f6484.7

                                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{N}} \]
                            5. Applied rewrites84.7%

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

                            Alternative 8: 3.3% accurate, 207.0× speedup?

                            \[\begin{array}{l} \\ 0 \end{array} \]
                            (FPCore (N) :precision binary64 0.0)
                            double code(double N) {
                            	return 0.0;
                            }
                            
                            real(8) function code(n)
                                real(8), intent (in) :: n
                                code = 0.0d0
                            end function
                            
                            public static double code(double N) {
                            	return 0.0;
                            }
                            
                            def code(N):
                            	return 0.0
                            
                            function code(N)
                            	return 0.0
                            end
                            
                            function tmp = code(N)
                            	tmp = 0.0;
                            end
                            
                            code[N_] := 0.0
                            
                            \begin{array}{l}
                            
                            \\
                            0
                            \end{array}
                            
                            Derivation
                            1. Initial program 23.6%

                              \[\log \left(N + 1\right) - \log N \]
                            2. Add Preprocessing
                            3. Step-by-step derivation
                              1. lift--.f64N/A

                                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(N + 1\right) - \log N} \]
                              2. lift-log.f64N/A

                                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(N + 1\right)} - \log N \]
                              3. lift-log.f64N/A

                                \[\leadsto \log \left(N + 1\right) - \color{blue}{\log N} \]
                              4. diff-logN/A

                                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(\frac{N + 1}{N}\right)} \]
                              5. clear-numN/A

                                \[\leadsto \log \color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{\frac{N}{N + 1}}\right)} \]
                              6. clear-numN/A

                                \[\leadsto \log \color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{\frac{\frac{N}{N + 1}}{1}}\right)} \]
                              7. log-recN/A

                                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{neg}\left(\log \left(\frac{\frac{N}{N + 1}}{1}\right)\right)} \]
                              8. lower-neg.f64N/A

                                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-\log \left(\frac{\frac{N}{N + 1}}{1}\right)} \]
                              9. lower-log.f64N/A

                                \[\leadsto -\color{blue}{\log \left(\frac{\frac{N}{N + 1}}{1}\right)} \]
                              10. lower-/.f64N/A

                                \[\leadsto -\log \color{blue}{\left(\frac{\frac{N}{N + 1}}{1}\right)} \]
                              11. lower-/.f6426.7

                                \[\leadsto -\log \left(\frac{\color{blue}{\frac{N}{N + 1}}}{1}\right) \]
                              12. lift-+.f64N/A

                                \[\leadsto -\log \left(\frac{\frac{N}{\color{blue}{N + 1}}}{1}\right) \]
                              13. +-commutativeN/A

                                \[\leadsto -\log \left(\frac{\frac{N}{\color{blue}{1 + N}}}{1}\right) \]
                              14. lower-+.f6426.7

                                \[\leadsto -\log \left(\frac{\frac{N}{\color{blue}{1 + N}}}{1}\right) \]
                            4. Applied rewrites26.7%

                              \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-\log \left(\frac{\frac{N}{1 + N}}{1}\right)} \]
                            5. Applied rewrites25.8%

                              \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left({\log N}^{2}, \frac{\log N}{-\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(N\right) + \log N, \log N, {\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(N\right)\right)}^{2}\right)}, \frac{{\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(N\right)\right)}^{3}}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(N\right) + \log N, \log N, {\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(N\right)\right)}^{2}\right)}\right)} \]
                            6. Taylor expanded in N around inf

                              \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \frac{{\log \left(\frac{1}{N}\right)}^{3}}{2 \cdot {\log \left(\frac{1}{N}\right)}^{2} + {\log \left(\frac{1}{N}\right)}^{2}} + \frac{{\log \left(\frac{1}{N}\right)}^{3}}{2 \cdot {\log \left(\frac{1}{N}\right)}^{2} + {\log \left(\frac{1}{N}\right)}^{2}}} \]
                            7. Step-by-step derivation
                              1. distribute-lft1-inN/A

                                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(-1 + 1\right) \cdot \frac{{\log \left(\frac{1}{N}\right)}^{3}}{2 \cdot {\log \left(\frac{1}{N}\right)}^{2} + {\log \left(\frac{1}{N}\right)}^{2}}} \]
                              2. metadata-evalN/A

                                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{0} \cdot \frac{{\log \left(\frac{1}{N}\right)}^{3}}{2 \cdot {\log \left(\frac{1}{N}\right)}^{2} + {\log \left(\frac{1}{N}\right)}^{2}} \]
                              3. mul0-lft3.3

                                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{0} \]
                            8. Applied rewrites3.3%

                              \[\leadsto \color{blue}{0} \]
                            9. Add Preprocessing

                            Developer Target 1: 95.9% accurate, 0.6× speedup?

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

                            Reproduce

                            ?
                            herbie shell --seed 2024272 
                            (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)))