\sqrt{x - 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}x + \left(\frac{-1}{2} + \frac{\frac{-1}{8}}{x}\right)double f(double x) {
double r303108 = x;
double r303109 = 1.0;
double r303110 = r303108 - r303109;
double r303111 = sqrt(r303110);
double r303112 = sqrt(r303108);
double r303113 = r303111 * r303112;
return r303113;
}
double f(double x) {
double r303114 = x;
double r303115 = -0.5;
double r303116 = -0.125;
double r303117 = r303116 / r303114;
double r303118 = r303115 + r303117;
double r303119 = r303114 + r303118;
return r303119;
}



Bits error versus x
Results
Initial program 0.5
Taylor expanded around inf 0.4
Simplified0.4
Final simplification0.4
herbie shell --seed 2019128 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (x)
:name "sqrt times"
(* (sqrt (- x 1)) (sqrt x)))