Average Error: 31.6 → 0.1
Time: 2.4s
Precision: 64
\[\log \left(x + \sqrt{x \cdot x - 1}\right)\]
↓
\[\log \left(x + \sqrt{x + \sqrt{1}} \cdot \sqrt{x - \sqrt{1}}\right)\]
\log \left(x + \sqrt{x \cdot x - 1}\right)
↓
\log \left(x + \sqrt{x + \sqrt{1}} \cdot \sqrt{x - \sqrt{1}}\right)
double f(double x) {
        double r73736 = x;
        double r73737 = r73736 * r73736;
        double r73738 = 1.0;
        double r73739 = r73737 - r73738;
        double r73740 = sqrt(r73739);
        double r73741 = r73736 + r73740;
        double r73742 = log(r73741);
        return r73742;
}
↓
double f(double x) {
        double r73743 = x;
        double r73744 = 1.0;
        double r73745 = sqrt(r73744);
        double r73746 = r73743 + r73745;
        double r73747 = sqrt(r73746);
        double r73748 = r73743 - r73745;
        double r73749 = sqrt(r73748);
        double r73750 = r73747 * r73749;
        double r73751 = r73743 + r73750;
        double r73752 = log(r73751);
        return r73752;
}

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Derivation

  1. Initial program 31.6

    \[\log \left(x + \sqrt{x \cdot x - 1}\right)\]
  2. Using strategy rm

  3. Applied add-sqr-sqrt31.6

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

  4. Applied difference-of-squares31.6

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

  5. Applied sqrt-prod0.1

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

  6. Final simplification0.1

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2019352 
(FPCore (x)
  :name "Hyperbolic arc-cosine"
  :precision binary64
  (log (+ x (sqrt (- (* x x) 1)))))