Average Error: 19.8 → 0.4
Time: 5.6s
Precision: 64
\[\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} - \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}}\]
↓
\[\frac{1 \cdot \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1} + \sqrt{x}}}{\left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{\sqrt{x + 1}}\right) \cdot \sqrt{\sqrt{x + 1}}}\]
\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} - \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}}
↓
\frac{1 \cdot \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1} + \sqrt{x}}}{\left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{\sqrt{x + 1}}\right) \cdot \sqrt{\sqrt{x + 1}}}
double f(double x) {
        double r207977 = 1.0;
        double r207978 = x;
        double r207979 = sqrt(r207978);
        double r207980 = r207977 / r207979;
        double r207981 = r207978 + r207977;
        double r207982 = sqrt(r207981);
        double r207983 = r207977 / r207982;
        double r207984 = r207980 - r207983;
        return r207984;
}
↓
double f(double x) {
        double r207985 = 1.0;
        double r207986 = x;
        double r207987 = r207986 + r207985;
        double r207988 = sqrt(r207987);
        double r207989 = sqrt(r207986);
        double r207990 = r207988 + r207989;
        double r207991 = r207985 / r207990;
        double r207992 = r207985 * r207991;
        double r207993 = sqrt(r207988);
        double r207994 = r207989 * r207993;
        double r207995 = r207994 * r207993;
        double r207996 = r207992 / r207995;
        return r207996;
}

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Target

Original19.8
Target0.6
Herbie0.4
\[\frac{1}{\left(x + 1\right) \cdot \sqrt{x} + x \cdot \sqrt{x + 1}}\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 19.8

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

  3. Applied frac-sub19.8

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

  4. Simplified19.8

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

  6. Applied flip--19.6

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

  7. Simplified19.1

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

  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 add-sqr-sqrt0.4

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

  11. Applied sqrt-prod0.4

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

  12. Applied associate-*r*0.4

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

  13. Final simplification0.4

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2019353 
(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)))))