Average Error: 0.5 → 0.4
Time: 7.2s
Precision: 64
\[\sqrt{x - 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\]
↓
\[x - \left(\frac{1}{2} - \frac{\frac{-1}{8}}{x}\right)\]

Error

Bits error versus x

Derivation

  1. Initial program 0.5

    \[\sqrt{x - 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\]

  2. Taylor expanded around inf 0.4

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

  3. Simplified0.4

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{x - \left(\frac{1}{2} - \frac{\frac{-1}{8}}{x}\right)}\]

  4. Final simplification0.4

    \[\leadsto x - \left(\frac{1}{2} - \frac{\frac{-1}{8}}{x}\right)\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2019100 
(FPCore (x)
  :name "sqrt times"
  (* (sqrt (- x 1)) (sqrt x)))