2log (problem 3.3.6)

Percentage Accurate: 23.1% → 99.6%
Time: 8.7s
Alternatives: 9
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 9 alternatives:

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

Initial Program: 23.1% 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: 99.6% accurate, 0.6× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\log \left(1 + N\right) - \log N \leq 0.001:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{0.08333333333333333 - \frac{0.041666666666666664}{N}}{N} + -0.5}{N}, -N, N\right)}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-\log \left(\frac{N}{1 + N}\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (N)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (- (log (+ 1.0 N)) (log N)) 0.001)
   (/
    1.0
    (fma
     (/ (+ (/ (- 0.08333333333333333 (/ 0.041666666666666664 N)) N) -0.5) N)
     (- N)
     N))
   (- (log (/ N (+ 1.0 N))))))
double code(double N) {
	double tmp;
	if ((log((1.0 + N)) - log(N)) <= 0.001) {
		tmp = 1.0 / fma(((((0.08333333333333333 - (0.041666666666666664 / N)) / N) + -0.5) / N), -N, N);
	} 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 / fma(Float64(Float64(Float64(Float64(0.08333333333333333 - Float64(0.041666666666666664 / N)) / N) + -0.5) / N), Float64(-N), N));
	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[(0.08333333333333333 - N[(0.041666666666666664 / N), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N), $MachinePrecision] + -0.5), $MachinePrecision] / N), $MachinePrecision] * (-N) + N), $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}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{0.08333333333333333 - \frac{0.041666666666666664}{N}}{N} + -0.5}{N}, -N, N\right)}\\

\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 21.6%

      \[\log \left(N + 1\right) - \log N \]
    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 -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 rewrites99.7%

          \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{0.5 - \frac{0.08333333333333333 - \frac{0.041666666666666664}{N}}{N}}{N}, -1, -1\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(-N\right)}} \]
        2. Step-by-step derivation
          1. Applied rewrites99.9%

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

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

          1. Initial program 91.8%

            \[\log \left(N + 1\right) - \log N \]
          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-/.f6495.1

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

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

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

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

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

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

          \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\log \left(1 + N\right) - \log N \leq 0.001:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{0.08333333333333333 - \frac{0.041666666666666664}{N}}{N} + -0.5}{N}, -N, N\right)}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-\log \left(\frac{N}{1 + N}\right)\\ \end{array} \]
        5. Add Preprocessing

        Alternative 2: 99.5% accurate, 0.6× speedup?

        \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\log \left(1 + N\right) - \log N \leq 0.0006:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{0.08333333333333333 - \frac{0.041666666666666664}{N}}{N} + -0.5}{N}, -N, N\right)}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\log \left(1 + \frac{1}{N}\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]
        (FPCore (N)
         :precision binary64
         (if (<= (- (log (+ 1.0 N)) (log N)) 0.0006)
           (/
            1.0
            (fma
             (/ (+ (/ (- 0.08333333333333333 (/ 0.041666666666666664 N)) N) -0.5) N)
             (- N)
             N))
           (log (+ 1.0 (/ 1.0 N)))))
        double code(double N) {
        	double tmp;
        	if ((log((1.0 + N)) - log(N)) <= 0.0006) {
        		tmp = 1.0 / fma(((((0.08333333333333333 - (0.041666666666666664 / N)) / N) + -0.5) / N), -N, N);
        	} else {
        		tmp = log((1.0 + (1.0 / N)));
        	}
        	return tmp;
        }
        
        function code(N)
        	tmp = 0.0
        	if (Float64(log(Float64(1.0 + N)) - log(N)) <= 0.0006)
        		tmp = Float64(1.0 / fma(Float64(Float64(Float64(Float64(0.08333333333333333 - Float64(0.041666666666666664 / N)) / N) + -0.5) / N), Float64(-N), N));
        	else
        		tmp = log(Float64(1.0 + 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], 0.0006], N[(1.0 / N[(N[(N[(N[(N[(0.08333333333333333 - N[(0.041666666666666664 / N), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N), $MachinePrecision] + -0.5), $MachinePrecision] / N), $MachinePrecision] * (-N) + N), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[Log[N[(1.0 + N[(1.0 / N), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]]
        
        \begin{array}{l}
        
        \\
        \begin{array}{l}
        \mathbf{if}\;\log \left(1 + N\right) - \log N \leq 0.0006:\\
        \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{0.08333333333333333 - \frac{0.041666666666666664}{N}}{N} + -0.5}{N}, -N, N\right)}\\
        
        \mathbf{else}:\\
        \;\;\;\;\log \left(1 + \frac{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)) < 5.99999999999999947e-4

          1. Initial program 21.4%

            \[\log \left(N + 1\right) - \log N \]
          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 rewrites99.8%

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-0.5 - \frac{\frac{0.25}{N} - 0.3333333333333333}{N}}{N} - -1}{N}} \]
          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 -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 rewrites99.7%

                \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{0.5 - \frac{0.08333333333333333 - \frac{0.041666666666666664}{N}}{N}}{N}, -1, -1\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(-N\right)}} \]
              2. Step-by-step derivation
                1. Applied rewrites99.9%

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

                if 5.99999999999999947e-4 < (-.f64 (log.f64 (+.f64 N #s(literal 1 binary64))) (log.f64 N))

                1. Initial program 91.3%

                  \[\log \left(N + 1\right) - \log N \]
                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-/.f6493.4

                    \[\leadsto \log \color{blue}{\left(\frac{N + 1}{N}\right)} \]
                  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-+.f6493.4

                    \[\leadsto \log \left(\frac{\color{blue}{1 + N}}{N}\right) \]
                4. Applied rewrites93.4%

                  \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\log \left(\frac{1 + N}{N}\right)} \]
                5. Taylor expanded in N around inf

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

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

                    \[\leadsto \log \color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{N} + 1\right)} \]
                  3. lower-/.f6493.7

                    \[\leadsto \log \left(\color{blue}{\frac{1}{N}} + 1\right) \]
                7. Applied rewrites93.7%

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

                \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\log \left(1 + N\right) - \log N \leq 0.0006:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{0.08333333333333333 - \frac{0.041666666666666664}{N}}{N} + -0.5}{N}, -N, N\right)}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\log \left(1 + \frac{1}{N}\right)\\ \end{array} \]
              5. Add Preprocessing

              Alternative 3: 96.9% accurate, 3.5× speedup?

              \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{0.08333333333333333 - \frac{0.041666666666666664}{N}}{N} + -0.5}{N}, -N, N\right)} \end{array} \]
              (FPCore (N)
               :precision binary64
               (/
                1.0
                (fma
                 (/ (+ (/ (- 0.08333333333333333 (/ 0.041666666666666664 N)) N) -0.5) N)
                 (- N)
                 N)))
              double code(double N) {
              	return 1.0 / fma(((((0.08333333333333333 - (0.041666666666666664 / N)) / N) + -0.5) / N), -N, N);
              }
              
              function code(N)
              	return Float64(1.0 / fma(Float64(Float64(Float64(Float64(0.08333333333333333 - Float64(0.041666666666666664 / N)) / N) + -0.5) / N), Float64(-N), N))
              end
              
              code[N_] := N[(1.0 / N[(N[(N[(N[(N[(0.08333333333333333 - N[(0.041666666666666664 / N), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N), $MachinePrecision] + -0.5), $MachinePrecision] / N), $MachinePrecision] * (-N) + N), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
              
              \begin{array}{l}
              
              \\
              \frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{0.08333333333333333 - \frac{0.041666666666666664}{N}}{N} + -0.5}{N}, -N, N\right)}
              \end{array}
              
              Derivation
              1. Initial program 26.8%

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

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

                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-0.5 - \frac{\frac{0.25}{N} - 0.3333333333333333}{N}}{N} - -1}{N}} \]
              5. Step-by-step derivation
                1. Applied rewrites96.4%

                  \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{N}{\frac{-0.5 - \frac{\frac{0.25}{N} - 0.3333333333333333}{N}}{N} - -1}}} \]
                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 rewrites96.7%

                    \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{0.5 - \frac{0.08333333333333333 - \frac{0.041666666666666664}{N}}{N}}{N}, -1, -1\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(-N\right)}} \]
                  2. Step-by-step derivation
                    1. Applied rewrites96.9%

                      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{-0.5 + \frac{0.08333333333333333 - \frac{0.041666666666666664}{N}}{N}}{N}, -N, -1 \cdot \left(-N\right)\right)} \]
                    2. Final simplification96.9%

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

                    Alternative 4: 96.7% 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 26.8%

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

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

                      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-0.5 - \frac{\frac{0.25}{N} - 0.3333333333333333}{N}}{N} - -1}{N}} \]
                    5. Step-by-step derivation
                      1. Applied rewrites96.4%

                        \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{N}{\frac{-0.5 - \frac{\frac{0.25}{N} - 0.3333333333333333}{N}}{N} - -1}}} \]
                      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 rewrites96.7%

                          \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{0.5 - \frac{0.08333333333333333 - \frac{0.041666666666666664}{N}}{N}}{N}, -1, -1\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(-N\right)}} \]
                        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 rewrites96.7%

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

                          Alternative 5: 95.3% 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 26.8%

                            \[\log \left(N + 1\right) - \log N \]
                          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-/.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-/.f6495.0

                              \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\color{blue}{\frac{0.3333333333333333}{N}} - 0.5}{N} - -1}{N} \]
                          5. Applied rewrites95.0%

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

                          Alternative 6: 93.4% accurate, 7.1× speedup?

                          \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(N, \frac{0.5}{N}, N\right)} \end{array} \]
                          (FPCore (N) :precision binary64 (/ 1.0 (fma N (/ 0.5 N) N)))
                          double code(double N) {
                          	return 1.0 / fma(N, (0.5 / N), N);
                          }
                          
                          function code(N)
                          	return Float64(1.0 / fma(N, Float64(0.5 / N), N))
                          end
                          
                          code[N_] := N[(1.0 / N[(N * N[(0.5 / N), $MachinePrecision] + N), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
                          
                          \begin{array}{l}
                          
                          \\
                          \frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(N, \frac{0.5}{N}, N\right)}
                          \end{array}
                          
                          Derivation
                          1. Initial program 26.8%

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

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

                            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-0.5 - \frac{\frac{0.25}{N} - 0.3333333333333333}{N}}{N} - -1}{N}} \]
                          5. Step-by-step derivation
                            1. Applied rewrites96.4%

                              \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{N}{\frac{-0.5 - \frac{\frac{0.25}{N} - 0.3333333333333333}{N}}{N} - -1}}} \]
                            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 rewrites92.7%

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

                              Alternative 7: 92.7% accurate, 8.0× speedup?

                              \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{1 - \frac{0.5}{N}}{N} \end{array} \]
                              (FPCore (N) :precision binary64 (/ (- 1.0 (/ 0.5 N)) N))
                              double code(double N) {
                              	return (1.0 - (0.5 / N)) / N;
                              }
                              
                              real(8) function code(n)
                                  real(8), intent (in) :: n
                                  code = (1.0d0 - (0.5d0 / n)) / n
                              end function
                              
                              public static double code(double N) {
                              	return (1.0 - (0.5 / N)) / N;
                              }
                              
                              def code(N):
                              	return (1.0 - (0.5 / N)) / N
                              
                              function code(N)
                              	return Float64(Float64(1.0 - Float64(0.5 / N)) / N)
                              end
                              
                              function tmp = code(N)
                              	tmp = (1.0 - (0.5 / N)) / N;
                              end
                              
                              code[N_] := N[(N[(1.0 - N[(0.5 / N), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N), $MachinePrecision]
                              
                              \begin{array}{l}
                              
                              \\
                              \frac{1 - \frac{0.5}{N}}{N}
                              \end{array}
                              
                              Derivation
                              1. Initial program 26.8%

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

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

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

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

                                  \[\leadsto \frac{1 - \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{2} \cdot 1}{N}}}{N} \]
                                4. metadata-evalN/A

                                  \[\leadsto \frac{1 - \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{2}}}{N}}{N} \]
                                5. lower-/.f6492.0

                                  \[\leadsto \frac{1 - \color{blue}{\frac{0.5}{N}}}{N} \]
                              5. Applied rewrites92.0%

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

                              Alternative 8: 85.0% 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 26.8%

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

                                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{N}} \]
                              4. Step-by-step derivation
                                1. lower-/.f6482.2

                                  \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{N}} \]
                              5. Applied rewrites82.2%

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

                              Alternative 9: 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 26.8%

                                \[\log \left(N + 1\right) - \log N \]
                              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-/.f6430.8

                                  \[\leadsto -\log \left(\frac{\color{blue}{\frac{N}{N + 1}}}{1}\right) \]
                                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-+.f6430.8

                                  \[\leadsto -\log \left(\frac{\frac{N}{\color{blue}{1 + N}}}{1}\right) \]
                              4. Applied rewrites30.8%

                                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-\log \left(\frac{\frac{N}{1 + N}}{1}\right)} \]
                              5. Applied rewrites28.9%

                                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left({\left(\left({\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(N\right) \cdot \log N\right)}^{2} + \left({\log N}^{4} + {\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(N\right)\right)}^{4}\right)\right) \cdot \left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(N\right) + \log N\right)\right)}^{-1}, {\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(N\right)\right)}^{6}, \frac{-{\log N}^{6}}{\left({\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(N\right) \cdot \log N\right)}^{2} + \left({\log N}^{4} + {\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(N\right)\right)}^{4}\right)\right) \cdot \left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(N\right) + \log N\right)}\right)} \]
                              6. Taylor expanded in N around inf

                                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-1}{2} \cdot \frac{{\log \left(\frac{1}{N}\right)}^{5}}{2 \cdot {\log \left(\frac{1}{N}\right)}^{4} + {\log \left(\frac{1}{N}\right)}^{4}} + \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{{\log \left(\frac{1}{N}\right)}^{5}}{2 \cdot {\log \left(\frac{1}{N}\right)}^{4} + {\log \left(\frac{1}{N}\right)}^{4}}} \]
                              7. Step-by-step derivation
                                1. distribute-rgt-outN/A

                                  \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{{\log \left(\frac{1}{N}\right)}^{5}}{2 \cdot {\log \left(\frac{1}{N}\right)}^{4} + {\log \left(\frac{1}{N}\right)}^{4}} \cdot \left(\frac{-1}{2} + \frac{1}{2}\right)} \]
                                2. metadata-evalN/A

                                  \[\leadsto \frac{{\log \left(\frac{1}{N}\right)}^{5}}{2 \cdot {\log \left(\frac{1}{N}\right)}^{4} + {\log \left(\frac{1}{N}\right)}^{4}} \cdot \color{blue}{0} \]
                                3. mul0-rgt3.3

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

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

                              Developer Target 1: 96.4% 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 2024283 
                              (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)))