\sqrt{x - 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\left(x - \frac{\frac{1}{8}}{x}\right) - \frac{1}{2}double f(double x) {
double r132521 = x;
double r132522 = 1.0;
double r132523 = r132521 - r132522;
double r132524 = sqrt(r132523);
double r132525 = sqrt(r132521);
double r132526 = r132524 * r132525;
return r132526;
}
double f(double x) {
double r132527 = x;
double r132528 = 0.125;
double r132529 = r132528 / r132527;
double r132530 = r132527 - r132529;
double r132531 = 0.5;
double r132532 = r132530 - r132531;
return r132532;
}



Bits error versus x
Results
Initial program 0.5
Taylor expanded around inf 0.4
Simplified0.4
Final simplification0.4
herbie shell --seed 2019130 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (x)
:name "sqrt times"
(* (sqrt (- x 1)) (sqrt x)))