3frac (problem 3.3.3)

Percentage Accurate: 69.2% → 99.7%
Time: 9.3s
Alternatives: 7
Speedup: 1.6×

Specification

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\[\left|x\right| > 1\]
\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \left(\frac{1}{x + 1} - \frac{2}{x}\right) + \frac{1}{x - 1} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (x)
 :precision binary64
 (+ (- (/ 1.0 (+ x 1.0)) (/ 2.0 x)) (/ 1.0 (- x 1.0))))
double code(double x) {
	return ((1.0 / (x + 1.0)) - (2.0 / x)) + (1.0 / (x - 1.0));
}
real(8) function code(x)
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    code = ((1.0d0 / (x + 1.0d0)) - (2.0d0 / x)) + (1.0d0 / (x - 1.0d0))
end function
public static double code(double x) {
	return ((1.0 / (x + 1.0)) - (2.0 / x)) + (1.0 / (x - 1.0));
}
def code(x):
	return ((1.0 / (x + 1.0)) - (2.0 / x)) + (1.0 / (x - 1.0))
function code(x)
	return Float64(Float64(Float64(1.0 / Float64(x + 1.0)) - Float64(2.0 / x)) + Float64(1.0 / Float64(x - 1.0)))
end
function tmp = code(x)
	tmp = ((1.0 / (x + 1.0)) - (2.0 / x)) + (1.0 / (x - 1.0));
end
code[x_] := N[(N[(N[(1.0 / N[(x + 1.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - N[(2.0 / x), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[(1.0 / N[(x - 1.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\left(\frac{1}{x + 1} - \frac{2}{x}\right) + \frac{1}{x - 1}
\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 7 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: 69.2% accurate, 1.0× speedup?

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

\\
\left(\frac{1}{x + 1} - \frac{2}{x}\right) + \frac{1}{x - 1}
\end{array}

Alternative 1: 99.7% accurate, 0.2× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\frac{2}{x \cdot x} - -2}{{x}^{5}} - {x}^{-3} \cdot -2 \end{array} \]
(FPCore (x)
 :precision binary64
 (- (/ (- (/ 2.0 (* x x)) -2.0) (pow x 5.0)) (* (pow x -3.0) -2.0)))
double code(double x) {
	return (((2.0 / (x * x)) - -2.0) / pow(x, 5.0)) - (pow(x, -3.0) * -2.0);
}
real(8) function code(x)
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    code = (((2.0d0 / (x * x)) - (-2.0d0)) / (x ** 5.0d0)) - ((x ** (-3.0d0)) * (-2.0d0))
end function
public static double code(double x) {
	return (((2.0 / (x * x)) - -2.0) / Math.pow(x, 5.0)) - (Math.pow(x, -3.0) * -2.0);
}
def code(x):
	return (((2.0 / (x * x)) - -2.0) / math.pow(x, 5.0)) - (math.pow(x, -3.0) * -2.0)
function code(x)
	return Float64(Float64(Float64(Float64(2.0 / Float64(x * x)) - -2.0) / (x ^ 5.0)) - Float64((x ^ -3.0) * -2.0))
end
function tmp = code(x)
	tmp = (((2.0 / (x * x)) - -2.0) / (x ^ 5.0)) - ((x ^ -3.0) * -2.0);
end
code[x_] := N[(N[(N[(N[(2.0 / N[(x * x), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - -2.0), $MachinePrecision] / N[Power[x, 5.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - N[(N[Power[x, -3.0], $MachinePrecision] * -2.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\frac{\frac{2}{x \cdot x} - -2}{{x}^{5}} - {x}^{-3} \cdot -2
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 71.6%

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

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \frac{-1 \cdot \frac{2 + 2 \cdot \frac{1}{{x}^{2}}}{{x}^{2}} - 2}{{x}^{3}}} \]
  4. Step-by-step derivation
    1. mul-1-negN/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{-1 \cdot \frac{2 + 2 \cdot \frac{1}{{x}^{2}}}{{x}^{2}} - 2}{{x}^{3}}\right)} \]
    2. div-subN/A

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{\left(\frac{-1 \cdot \frac{2 + 2 \cdot \frac{1}{{x}^{2}}}{{x}^{2}}}{{x}^{3}} - \frac{2}{{x}^{3}}\right)}\right) \]
    3. sub-negN/A

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{\left(\frac{-1 \cdot \frac{2 + 2 \cdot \frac{1}{{x}^{2}}}{{x}^{2}}}{{x}^{3}} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{2}{{x}^{3}}\right)\right)\right)}\right) \]
    4. distribute-neg-inN/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{-1 \cdot \frac{2 + 2 \cdot \frac{1}{{x}^{2}}}{{x}^{2}}}{{x}^{3}}\right)\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{2}{{x}^{3}}\right)\right)\right)\right)} \]
    5. unsub-negN/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{-1 \cdot \frac{2 + 2 \cdot \frac{1}{{x}^{2}}}{{x}^{2}}}{{x}^{3}}\right)\right) - \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{2}{{x}^{3}}\right)\right)} \]
    6. mul-1-negN/A

      \[\leadsto \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{2 + 2 \cdot \frac{1}{{x}^{2}}}{{x}^{2}}\right)}}{{x}^{3}}\right)\right) - \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{2}{{x}^{3}}\right)\right) \]
    7. distribute-frac-negN/A

      \[\leadsto \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{\frac{2 + 2 \cdot \frac{1}{{x}^{2}}}{{x}^{2}}}{{x}^{3}}\right)\right)}\right)\right) - \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{2}{{x}^{3}}\right)\right) \]
    8. remove-double-negN/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{2 + 2 \cdot \frac{1}{{x}^{2}}}{{x}^{2}}}{{x}^{3}}} - \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{2}{{x}^{3}}\right)\right) \]
    9. lower--.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{2 + 2 \cdot \frac{1}{{x}^{2}}}{{x}^{2}}}{{x}^{3}} - \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{2}{{x}^{3}}\right)\right)} \]
  5. Applied rewrites99.3%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{2}{x \cdot x} - -2}{{x}^{5}} - \frac{-2}{{x}^{3}}} \]
  6. Step-by-step derivation
    1. Applied rewrites99.7%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{2}{x \cdot x} - -2}{{x}^{5}} - {x}^{-3} \cdot \color{blue}{-2} \]
    2. Add Preprocessing

    Alternative 2: 99.5% accurate, 0.2× speedup?

    \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \mathsf{fma}\left({x}^{-3}, 2, 2 \cdot {x}^{-5}\right) \end{array} \]
    (FPCore (x) :precision binary64 (fma (pow x -3.0) 2.0 (* 2.0 (pow x -5.0))))
    double code(double x) {
    	return fma(pow(x, -3.0), 2.0, (2.0 * pow(x, -5.0)));
    }
    
    function code(x)
    	return fma((x ^ -3.0), 2.0, Float64(2.0 * (x ^ -5.0)))
    end
    
    code[x_] := N[(N[Power[x, -3.0], $MachinePrecision] * 2.0 + N[(2.0 * N[Power[x, -5.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
    
    \begin{array}{l}
    
    \\
    \mathsf{fma}\left({x}^{-3}, 2, 2 \cdot {x}^{-5}\right)
    \end{array}
    
    Derivation
    1. Initial program 71.6%

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

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \frac{-1 \cdot \frac{2 + 2 \cdot \frac{1}{{x}^{2}}}{{x}^{2}} - 2}{{x}^{3}}} \]
    4. Step-by-step derivation
      1. mul-1-negN/A

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{-1 \cdot \frac{2 + 2 \cdot \frac{1}{{x}^{2}}}{{x}^{2}} - 2}{{x}^{3}}\right)} \]
      2. div-subN/A

        \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{\left(\frac{-1 \cdot \frac{2 + 2 \cdot \frac{1}{{x}^{2}}}{{x}^{2}}}{{x}^{3}} - \frac{2}{{x}^{3}}\right)}\right) \]
      3. sub-negN/A

        \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{\left(\frac{-1 \cdot \frac{2 + 2 \cdot \frac{1}{{x}^{2}}}{{x}^{2}}}{{x}^{3}} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{2}{{x}^{3}}\right)\right)\right)}\right) \]
      4. distribute-neg-inN/A

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{-1 \cdot \frac{2 + 2 \cdot \frac{1}{{x}^{2}}}{{x}^{2}}}{{x}^{3}}\right)\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{2}{{x}^{3}}\right)\right)\right)\right)} \]
      5. unsub-negN/A

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{-1 \cdot \frac{2 + 2 \cdot \frac{1}{{x}^{2}}}{{x}^{2}}}{{x}^{3}}\right)\right) - \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{2}{{x}^{3}}\right)\right)} \]
      6. mul-1-negN/A

        \[\leadsto \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{2 + 2 \cdot \frac{1}{{x}^{2}}}{{x}^{2}}\right)}}{{x}^{3}}\right)\right) - \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{2}{{x}^{3}}\right)\right) \]
      7. distribute-frac-negN/A

        \[\leadsto \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{\frac{2 + 2 \cdot \frac{1}{{x}^{2}}}{{x}^{2}}}{{x}^{3}}\right)\right)}\right)\right) - \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{2}{{x}^{3}}\right)\right) \]
      8. remove-double-negN/A

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{2 + 2 \cdot \frac{1}{{x}^{2}}}{{x}^{2}}}{{x}^{3}}} - \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{2}{{x}^{3}}\right)\right) \]
      9. lower--.f64N/A

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{2 + 2 \cdot \frac{1}{{x}^{2}}}{{x}^{2}}}{{x}^{3}} - \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{2}{{x}^{3}}\right)\right)} \]
    5. Applied rewrites99.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{2}{x \cdot x} - -2}{{x}^{5}} - \frac{-2}{{x}^{3}}} \]
    6. Step-by-step derivation
      1. Applied rewrites99.7%

        \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{2}{x \cdot x} - -2}{{x}^{5}} - {x}^{-3} \cdot \color{blue}{-2} \]
      2. Taylor expanded in x around inf

        \[\leadsto \frac{2}{{x}^{5}} - {\color{blue}{x}}^{-3} \cdot -2 \]
      3. Step-by-step derivation
        1. Applied rewrites99.6%

          \[\leadsto \frac{2}{{x}^{5}} - {\color{blue}{x}}^{-3} \cdot -2 \]
        2. Step-by-step derivation
          1. Applied rewrites99.6%

            \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left({x}^{-3}, \color{blue}{2}, {x}^{-5} \cdot 2\right) \]
          2. Final simplification99.6%

            \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left({x}^{-3}, 2, 2 \cdot {x}^{-5}\right) \]
          3. Add Preprocessing

          Alternative 3: 99.2% accurate, 1.2× speedup?

          \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{1}{\frac{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot \left(\left(1 + x\right) \cdot x\right)}{2}} \end{array} \]
          (FPCore (x) :precision binary64 (/ 1.0 (/ (* (- x 1.0) (* (+ 1.0 x) x)) 2.0)))
          double code(double x) {
          	return 1.0 / (((x - 1.0) * ((1.0 + x) * x)) / 2.0);
          }
          
          real(8) function code(x)
              real(8), intent (in) :: x
              code = 1.0d0 / (((x - 1.0d0) * ((1.0d0 + x) * x)) / 2.0d0)
          end function
          
          public static double code(double x) {
          	return 1.0 / (((x - 1.0) * ((1.0 + x) * x)) / 2.0);
          }
          
          def code(x):
          	return 1.0 / (((x - 1.0) * ((1.0 + x) * x)) / 2.0)
          
          function code(x)
          	return Float64(1.0 / Float64(Float64(Float64(x - 1.0) * Float64(Float64(1.0 + x) * x)) / 2.0))
          end
          
          function tmp = code(x)
          	tmp = 1.0 / (((x - 1.0) * ((1.0 + x) * x)) / 2.0);
          end
          
          code[x_] := N[(1.0 / N[(N[(N[(x - 1.0), $MachinePrecision] * N[(N[(1.0 + x), $MachinePrecision] * x), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / 2.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
          
          \begin{array}{l}
          
          \\
          \frac{1}{\frac{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot \left(\left(1 + x\right) \cdot x\right)}{2}}
          \end{array}
          
          Derivation
          1. Initial program 71.6%

            \[\left(\frac{1}{x + 1} - \frac{2}{x}\right) + \frac{1}{x - 1} \]
          2. Add Preprocessing
          3. Step-by-step derivation
            1. lift-+.f64N/A

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

              \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{\frac{\left(\left(x + 1\right) \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(x - 1\right)}{\left(1 \cdot x - \left(x + 1\right) \cdot 2\right) \cdot \left(x - 1\right) + \left(\left(x + 1\right) \cdot x\right) \cdot 1}}} \]
            9. lower-/.f64N/A

              \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{\frac{\left(\left(x + 1\right) \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(x - 1\right)}{\left(1 \cdot x - \left(x + 1\right) \cdot 2\right) \cdot \left(x - 1\right) + \left(\left(x + 1\right) \cdot x\right) \cdot 1}}} \]
            10. lower-/.f64N/A

              \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{\left(\left(x + 1\right) \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(x - 1\right)}{\left(1 \cdot x - \left(x + 1\right) \cdot 2\right) \cdot \left(x - 1\right) + \left(\left(x + 1\right) \cdot x\right) \cdot 1}}} \]
            11. lower-*.f64N/A

              \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{\color{blue}{\left(\left(x + 1\right) \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(x - 1\right)}}{\left(1 \cdot x - \left(x + 1\right) \cdot 2\right) \cdot \left(x - 1\right) + \left(\left(x + 1\right) \cdot x\right) \cdot 1}} \]
            12. lower-*.f64N/A

              \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{\color{blue}{\left(\left(x + 1\right) \cdot x\right)} \cdot \left(x - 1\right)}{\left(1 \cdot x - \left(x + 1\right) \cdot 2\right) \cdot \left(x - 1\right) + \left(\left(x + 1\right) \cdot x\right) \cdot 1}} \]
            13. lower-fma.f64N/A

              \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{\left(\left(x + 1\right) \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(x - 1\right)}{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(1 \cdot x - \left(x + 1\right) \cdot 2, x - 1, \left(\left(x + 1\right) \cdot x\right) \cdot 1\right)}}} \]
          4. Applied rewrites20.5%

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

            \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{\left(\left(x + 1\right) \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(x - 1\right)}{\color{blue}{2}}} \]
          6. Step-by-step derivation
            1. Applied rewrites99.5%

              \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{\left(\left(x + 1\right) \cdot x\right) \cdot \left(x - 1\right)}{\color{blue}{2}}} \]
            2. Final simplification99.5%

              \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot \left(\left(1 + x\right) \cdot x\right)}{2}} \]
            3. Add Preprocessing

            Alternative 4: 99.2% accurate, 1.6× speedup?

            \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, x \cdot x, -0.5\right) \cdot x} \end{array} \]
            (FPCore (x) :precision binary64 (/ 1.0 (* (fma 0.5 (* x x) -0.5) x)))
            double code(double x) {
            	return 1.0 / (fma(0.5, (x * x), -0.5) * x);
            }
            
            function code(x)
            	return Float64(1.0 / Float64(fma(0.5, Float64(x * x), -0.5) * x))
            end
            
            code[x_] := N[(1.0 / N[(N[(0.5 * N[(x * x), $MachinePrecision] + -0.5), $MachinePrecision] * x), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
            
            \begin{array}{l}
            
            \\
            \frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, x \cdot x, -0.5\right) \cdot x}
            \end{array}
            
            Derivation
            1. Initial program 71.6%

              \[\left(\frac{1}{x + 1} - \frac{2}{x}\right) + \frac{1}{x - 1} \]
            2. Add Preprocessing
            3. Step-by-step derivation
              1. lift-+.f64N/A

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

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

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

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

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

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

                \[\leadsto \frac{1}{x - 1} + \color{blue}{\frac{1 \cdot x - \left(x + 1\right) \cdot 2}{\left(x + 1\right) \cdot x}} \]
              8. associate-/r*N/A

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

                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1 \cdot x + \left(x - 1\right) \cdot \frac{1 \cdot x - \left(x + 1\right) \cdot 2}{x + 1}}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x}} \]
              10. lower-/.f64N/A

                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1 \cdot x + \left(x - 1\right) \cdot \frac{1 \cdot x - \left(x + 1\right) \cdot 2}{x + 1}}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x}} \]
            4. Applied rewrites71.5%

              \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{x + \left(x - 1\right) \cdot \frac{x - 2 \cdot \left(x + 1\right)}{x + 1}}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x}} \]
            5. Taylor expanded in x around inf

              \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{2 - 2 \cdot \frac{1}{x}}{x}}}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x} \]
            6. Step-by-step derivation
              1. sub-negN/A

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

                \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(2 \cdot \frac{1}{x}\right)\right) + 2}}{x}}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x} \]
              3. neg-sub0N/A

                \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\color{blue}{\left(0 - 2 \cdot \frac{1}{x}\right)} + 2}{x}}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x} \]
              4. associate-+l-N/A

                \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\color{blue}{0 - \left(2 \cdot \frac{1}{x} - 2\right)}}{x}}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x} \]
              5. neg-sub0N/A

                \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(2 \cdot \frac{1}{x} - 2\right)\right)}}{x}}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x} \]
              6. distribute-neg-fracN/A

                \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{2 \cdot \frac{1}{x} - 2}{x}\right)}}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x} \]
              7. distribute-neg-frac2N/A

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

                \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{2 \cdot \frac{1}{x} - 2}{\color{blue}{-1 \cdot x}}}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x} \]
              9. associate-/r*N/A

                \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{2 \cdot \frac{1}{x} - 2}{-1}}{x}}}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x} \]
              10. lower-/.f64N/A

                \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{2 \cdot \frac{1}{x} - 2}{-1}}{x}}}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x} \]
            7. Applied rewrites98.9%

              \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-2}{x} - -2}{x}}}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x} \]
            8. Step-by-step derivation
              1. lift-/.f64N/A

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

                \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\frac{-2}{x} - -2}{x}}{\color{blue}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x}} \]
              3. associate-/r*N/A

                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{\frac{\frac{-2}{x} - -2}{x}}{x - 1}}{x}} \]
              4. clear-numN/A

                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{\frac{x}{\frac{\frac{\frac{-2}{x} - -2}{x}}{x - 1}}}} \]
              5. lower-/.f64N/A

                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{\frac{x}{\frac{\frac{\frac{-2}{x} - -2}{x}}{x - 1}}}} \]
              6. lower-/.f64N/A

                \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{x}{\frac{\frac{\frac{-2}{x} - -2}{x}}{x - 1}}}} \]
              7. lower-/.f6498.6

                \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{x}{\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{\frac{-2}{x} - -2}{x}}{x - 1}}}} \]
            9. Applied rewrites98.6%

              \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{\frac{x}{\frac{\frac{\frac{-2}{x} - -2}{x}}{x - 1}}}} \]
            10. Taylor expanded in x around 0

              \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{x \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2} - \frac{1}{2}\right)}} \]
            11. Step-by-step derivation
              1. *-commutativeN/A

                \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2} - \frac{1}{2}\right) \cdot x}} \]
              2. lower-*.f64N/A

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

                \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{2}\right)\right)\right)} \cdot x} \]
              4. metadata-evalN/A

                \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot {x}^{2} + \color{blue}{\frac{-1}{2}}\right) \cdot x} \]
              5. lower-fma.f64N/A

                \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{1}{2}, {x}^{2}, \frac{-1}{2}\right)} \cdot x} \]
              6. unpow2N/A

                \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{1}{2}, \color{blue}{x \cdot x}, \frac{-1}{2}\right) \cdot x} \]
              7. lower-*.f6499.5

                \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \color{blue}{x \cdot x}, -0.5\right) \cdot x} \]
            12. Applied rewrites99.5%

              \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, x \cdot x, -0.5\right) \cdot x}} \]
            13. Add Preprocessing

            Alternative 5: 67.7% accurate, 2.1× speedup?

            \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\left(-x\right) + x}{x \cdot x} \end{array} \]
            (FPCore (x) :precision binary64 (/ (+ (- x) x) (* x x)))
            double code(double x) {
            	return (-x + x) / (x * x);
            }
            
            real(8) function code(x)
                real(8), intent (in) :: x
                code = (-x + x) / (x * x)
            end function
            
            public static double code(double x) {
            	return (-x + x) / (x * x);
            }
            
            def code(x):
            	return (-x + x) / (x * x)
            
            function code(x)
            	return Float64(Float64(Float64(-x) + x) / Float64(x * x))
            end
            
            function tmp = code(x)
            	tmp = (-x + x) / (x * x);
            end
            
            code[x_] := N[(N[((-x) + x), $MachinePrecision] / N[(x * x), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
            
            \begin{array}{l}
            
            \\
            \frac{\left(-x\right) + x}{x \cdot x}
            \end{array}
            
            Derivation
            1. Initial program 71.6%

              \[\left(\frac{1}{x + 1} - \frac{2}{x}\right) + \frac{1}{x - 1} \]
            2. Add Preprocessing
            3. Step-by-step derivation
              1. lift-+.f64N/A

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

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

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

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

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

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

                \[\leadsto \frac{1}{x - 1} + \color{blue}{\frac{1 \cdot x - \left(x + 1\right) \cdot 2}{\left(x + 1\right) \cdot x}} \]
              8. associate-/r*N/A

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

                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1 \cdot x + \left(x - 1\right) \cdot \frac{1 \cdot x - \left(x + 1\right) \cdot 2}{x + 1}}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x}} \]
              10. lower-/.f64N/A

                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1 \cdot x + \left(x - 1\right) \cdot \frac{1 \cdot x - \left(x + 1\right) \cdot 2}{x + 1}}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x}} \]
            4. Applied rewrites71.5%

              \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{x + \left(x - 1\right) \cdot \frac{x - 2 \cdot \left(x + 1\right)}{x + 1}}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x}} \]
            5. Taylor expanded in x around inf

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

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

                \[\leadsto \frac{x + x \cdot \left(2 \cdot \frac{1}{{x}^{2}} + \color{blue}{-1}\right)}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x} \]
              3. distribute-lft-inN/A

                \[\leadsto \frac{x + \color{blue}{\left(x \cdot \left(2 \cdot \frac{1}{{x}^{2}}\right) + x \cdot -1\right)}}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x} \]
              4. *-commutativeN/A

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

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

                \[\leadsto \frac{x + \color{blue}{\left(x \cdot \left(2 \cdot \frac{1}{{x}^{2}}\right) - x\right)}}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x} \]
              7. *-commutativeN/A

                \[\leadsto \frac{x + \left(\color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot \frac{1}{{x}^{2}}\right) \cdot x} - x\right)}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x} \]
              8. associate-*l*N/A

                \[\leadsto \frac{x + \left(\color{blue}{2 \cdot \left(\frac{1}{{x}^{2}} \cdot x\right)} - x\right)}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x} \]
              9. associate-/r/N/A

                \[\leadsto \frac{x + \left(2 \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{1}{\frac{{x}^{2}}{x}}} - x\right)}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x} \]
              10. unpow2N/A

                \[\leadsto \frac{x + \left(2 \cdot \frac{1}{\frac{\color{blue}{x \cdot x}}{x}} - x\right)}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x} \]
              11. associate-/l*N/A

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

                \[\leadsto \frac{x + \left(2 \cdot \frac{1}{x \cdot \color{blue}{1}} - x\right)}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x} \]
              13. *-rgt-identityN/A

                \[\leadsto \frac{x + \left(2 \cdot \frac{1}{\color{blue}{x}} - x\right)}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x} \]
              14. lower--.f64N/A

                \[\leadsto \frac{x + \color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot \frac{1}{x} - x\right)}}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x} \]
              15. associate-*r/N/A

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

                \[\leadsto \frac{x + \left(\frac{\color{blue}{2}}{x} - x\right)}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x} \]
              17. lower-/.f6470.9

                \[\leadsto \frac{x + \left(\color{blue}{\frac{2}{x}} - x\right)}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x} \]
            7. Applied rewrites70.9%

              \[\leadsto \frac{x + \color{blue}{\left(\frac{2}{x} - x\right)}}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x} \]
            8. Taylor expanded in x around inf

              \[\leadsto \frac{x + \left(\frac{2}{x} - x\right)}{\color{blue}{{x}^{2}}} \]
            9. Step-by-step derivation
              1. unpow2N/A

                \[\leadsto \frac{x + \left(\frac{2}{x} - x\right)}{\color{blue}{x \cdot x}} \]
              2. lower-*.f6471.1

                \[\leadsto \frac{x + \left(\frac{2}{x} - x\right)}{\color{blue}{x \cdot x}} \]
            10. Applied rewrites71.1%

              \[\leadsto \frac{x + \left(\frac{2}{x} - x\right)}{\color{blue}{x \cdot x}} \]
            11. Taylor expanded in x around inf

              \[\leadsto \frac{x + \color{blue}{-1 \cdot x}}{x \cdot x} \]
            12. Step-by-step derivation
              1. mul-1-negN/A

                \[\leadsto \frac{x + \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(x\right)\right)}}{x \cdot x} \]
              2. lower-neg.f6470.1

                \[\leadsto \frac{x + \color{blue}{\left(-x\right)}}{x \cdot x} \]
            13. Applied rewrites70.1%

              \[\leadsto \frac{x + \color{blue}{\left(-x\right)}}{x \cdot x} \]
            14. Final simplification70.1%

              \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-x\right) + x}{x \cdot x} \]
            15. Add Preprocessing

            Alternative 6: 53.2% accurate, 2.7× speedup?

            \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{2}{x \cdot x} \end{array} \]
            (FPCore (x) :precision binary64 (/ 2.0 (* x x)))
            double code(double x) {
            	return 2.0 / (x * x);
            }
            
            real(8) function code(x)
                real(8), intent (in) :: x
                code = 2.0d0 / (x * x)
            end function
            
            public static double code(double x) {
            	return 2.0 / (x * x);
            }
            
            def code(x):
            	return 2.0 / (x * x)
            
            function code(x)
            	return Float64(2.0 / Float64(x * x))
            end
            
            function tmp = code(x)
            	tmp = 2.0 / (x * x);
            end
            
            code[x_] := N[(2.0 / N[(x * x), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
            
            \begin{array}{l}
            
            \\
            \frac{2}{x \cdot x}
            \end{array}
            
            Derivation
            1. Initial program 71.6%

              \[\left(\frac{1}{x + 1} - \frac{2}{x}\right) + \frac{1}{x - 1} \]
            2. Add Preprocessing
            3. Step-by-step derivation
              1. lift-+.f64N/A

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

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

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

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

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

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

                \[\leadsto \frac{1}{x - 1} + \color{blue}{\frac{1 \cdot x - \left(x + 1\right) \cdot 2}{\left(x + 1\right) \cdot x}} \]
              8. associate-/r*N/A

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

                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1 \cdot x + \left(x - 1\right) \cdot \frac{1 \cdot x - \left(x + 1\right) \cdot 2}{x + 1}}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x}} \]
              10. lower-/.f64N/A

                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1 \cdot x + \left(x - 1\right) \cdot \frac{1 \cdot x - \left(x + 1\right) \cdot 2}{x + 1}}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x}} \]
            4. Applied rewrites71.5%

              \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{x + \left(x - 1\right) \cdot \frac{x - 2 \cdot \left(x + 1\right)}{x + 1}}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x}} \]
            5. Taylor expanded in x around 0

              \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{2}}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x} \]
            6. Step-by-step derivation
              1. Applied rewrites54.0%

                \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{2}}{\left(x - 1\right) \cdot x} \]
              2. Taylor expanded in x around inf

                \[\leadsto \frac{2}{\color{blue}{{x}^{2}}} \]
              3. Step-by-step derivation
                1. unpow2N/A

                  \[\leadsto \frac{2}{\color{blue}{x \cdot x}} \]
                2. lower-*.f6454.0

                  \[\leadsto \frac{2}{\color{blue}{x \cdot x}} \]
              4. Applied rewrites54.0%

                \[\leadsto \frac{2}{\color{blue}{x \cdot x}} \]
              5. Add Preprocessing

              Alternative 7: 5.1% accurate, 3.8× speedup?

              \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{-2}{x} \end{array} \]
              (FPCore (x) :precision binary64 (/ -2.0 x))
              double code(double x) {
              	return -2.0 / x;
              }
              
              real(8) function code(x)
                  real(8), intent (in) :: x
                  code = (-2.0d0) / x
              end function
              
              public static double code(double x) {
              	return -2.0 / x;
              }
              
              def code(x):
              	return -2.0 / x
              
              function code(x)
              	return Float64(-2.0 / x)
              end
              
              function tmp = code(x)
              	tmp = -2.0 / x;
              end
              
              code[x_] := N[(-2.0 / x), $MachinePrecision]
              
              \begin{array}{l}
              
              \\
              \frac{-2}{x}
              \end{array}
              
              Derivation
              1. Initial program 71.6%

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

                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-2}{x}} \]
              4. Step-by-step derivation
                1. lower-/.f645.0

                  \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-2}{x}} \]
              5. Applied rewrites5.0%

                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-2}{x}} \]
              6. Add Preprocessing

              Developer Target 1: 99.2% accurate, 1.8× speedup?

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

              Reproduce

              ?
              herbie shell --seed 2024272 
              (FPCore (x)
                :name "3frac (problem 3.3.3)"
                :precision binary64
                :pre (> (fabs x) 1.0)
              
                :alt
                (! :herbie-platform default (/ 2 (* x (- (* x x) 1))))
              
                (+ (- (/ 1.0 (+ x 1.0)) (/ 2.0 x)) (/ 1.0 (- x 1.0))))