Average Error: 19.6 → 0.4
Time: 37.1s
Precision: 64
Internal Precision: 128
\[\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} - \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}}\]
\[\frac{\frac{1}{x + 1}}{\frac{x}{\sqrt{x}} + x \cdot \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}}}\]

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Original19.6
Target0.7
Herbie0.4
\[\frac{1}{\left(x + 1\right) \cdot \sqrt{x} + x \cdot \sqrt{x + 1}}\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 19.6

    \[\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} - \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}}\]
  2. Initial simplification19.6

    \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} - \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}}\]
  3. Using strategy rm
  4. Applied flip--19.7

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} \cdot \frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} - \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}} \cdot \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}}}{\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} + \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}}}}\]
  5. Using strategy rm
  6. Applied frac-times24.6

    \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} \cdot \frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} - \color{blue}{\frac{1 \cdot 1}{\sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x + 1}}}}{\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} + \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}}}\]
  7. Applied frac-times19.8

    \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{1 \cdot 1}{\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x}}} - \frac{1 \cdot 1}{\sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x + 1}}}{\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} + \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}}}\]
  8. Applied frac-sub19.6

    \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\left(1 \cdot 1\right) \cdot \left(\sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x + 1}\right) - \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right) \cdot \left(1 \cdot 1\right)}{\left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right) \cdot \left(\sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x + 1}\right)}}}{\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} + \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}}}\]
  9. Simplified5.7

    \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\color{blue}{1}}{\left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right) \cdot \left(\sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x + 1}\right)}}{\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} + \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}}}\]
  10. Simplified5.6

    \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{1}{\color{blue}{x \cdot x + x}}}{\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} + \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}}}\]
  11. Using strategy rm
  12. Applied *-un-lft-identity5.6

    \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{1}{x \cdot x + x}}{\color{blue}{1 \cdot \left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} + \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}}\right)}}\]
  13. Applied div-inv5.6

    \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{1 \cdot \frac{1}{x \cdot x + x}}}{1 \cdot \left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} + \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}}\right)}\]
  14. Applied times-frac5.6

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{1} \cdot \frac{\frac{1}{x \cdot x + x}}{\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} + \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}}}}\]
  15. Simplified5.6

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{1} \cdot \frac{\frac{1}{x \cdot x + x}}{\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} + \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}}}\]
  16. Simplified0.4

    \[\leadsto 1 \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{x + 1}}{\frac{x}{\sqrt{x}} + \frac{x}{\sqrt{x + 1}}}}\]
  17. Using strategy rm
  18. Applied div-inv0.4

    \[\leadsto 1 \cdot \frac{\frac{1}{x + 1}}{\frac{x}{\sqrt{x}} + \color{blue}{x \cdot \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}}}}\]
  19. Final simplification0.4

    \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{1}{x + 1}}{\frac{x}{\sqrt{x}} + x \cdot \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}}}\]

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herbie shell --seed 2018278 
(FPCore (x)
  :name "2isqrt (example 3.6)"

  :herbie-target
  (/ 1 (+ (* (+ x 1) (sqrt x)) (* x (sqrt (+ x 1)))))

  (- (/ 1 (sqrt x)) (/ 1 (sqrt (+ x 1)))))