Average Error: 20.2 → 0.3
Time: 9.3s
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 r500 = 1.0;
        double r501 = x;
        double r502 = sqrt(r501);
        double r503 = r500 / r502;
        double r504 = r501 + r500;
        double r505 = sqrt(r504);
        double r506 = r500 / r505;
        double r507 = r503 - r506;
        return r507;
}
↓
double f(double x) {
        double r508 = 1.0;
        double r509 = x;
        double r510 = sqrt(r509);
        double r511 = r508 / r510;
        double r512 = r509 + r508;
        double r513 = sqrt(r512);
        double r514 = r513 * r510;
        double r515 = r514 + r512;
        double r516 = r508 / r515;
        double r517 = r511 * r516;
        return r517;
}

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Target

Original20.2
Target0.8
Herbie0.3
\[\frac{1}{\left(x + 1\right) \cdot \sqrt{x} + x \cdot \sqrt{x + 1}}\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 20.2

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

  3. Applied frac-sub20.2

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

  4. Simplified20.2

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

  6. Applied flip--20.0

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

  7. Simplified19.6

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

  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 2020025 
(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)))))