Average Error: 19.5 → 0.3
Time: 11.7s
Precision: 64
\[\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} - \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}}\]
↓
\[\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} \cdot \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x} + \left(x + 1\right)}\]
\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} - \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}}
↓
\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} \cdot \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x} + \left(x + 1\right)}
double f(double x) {
        double r117706 = 1.0;
        double r117707 = x;
        double r117708 = sqrt(r117707);
        double r117709 = r117706 / r117708;
        double r117710 = r117707 + r117706;
        double r117711 = sqrt(r117710);
        double r117712 = r117706 / r117711;
        double r117713 = r117709 - r117712;
        return r117713;
}
↓
double f(double x) {
        double r117714 = 1.0;
        double r117715 = x;
        double r117716 = sqrt(r117715);
        double r117717 = r117714 / r117716;
        double r117718 = r117715 + r117714;
        double r117719 = sqrt(r117718);
        double r117720 = r117719 * r117716;
        double r117721 = r117720 + r117718;
        double r117722 = r117714 / r117721;
        double r117723 = r117717 * r117722;
        return r117723;
}

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Target

Original19.5
Target0.7
Herbie0.3
\[\frac{1}{\left(x + 1\right) \cdot \sqrt{x} + x \cdot \sqrt{x + 1}}\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 19.5

    \[\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} - \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}}\]
  2. Using strategy rm

  3. Applied frac-sub19.5

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

  4. Simplified19.5

    \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{1 \cdot \left(\sqrt{x + 1} - \sqrt{x}\right)}}{\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x + 1}}\]
  5. Using strategy rm

  6. Applied flip--19.3

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

  7. Simplified18.9

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

  8. Taylor expanded around 0 0.4

    \[\leadsto \frac{1 \cdot \frac{\color{blue}{1}}{\sqrt{x + 1} + \sqrt{x}}}{\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x + 1}}\]
  9. Using strategy rm

  10. Applied times-frac0.4

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

  11. Simplified0.3

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

  12. Final simplification0.3

    \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} \cdot \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x} + \left(x + 1\right)}\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2019294 
(FPCore (x)
  :name "2isqrt (example 3.6)"
  :precision binary64

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

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