Average Error: 0.5 → 0.4
Time: 2.0s
Precision: 64
\[\sqrt{x - 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\]
↓
\[x - \mathsf{fma}\left(0.125, \frac{1}{x}, 0.5\right)\]
\sqrt{x - 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}
↓
x - \mathsf{fma}\left(0.125, \frac{1}{x}, 0.5\right)
double code(double x) {
	return (sqrt((x - 1.0)) * sqrt(x));
}
↓
double code(double x) {
	return (x - fma(0.125, (1.0 / x), 0.5));
}

Error

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Derivation

  1. Initial program 0.5

    \[\sqrt{x - 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\]

  2. Taylor expanded around inf 0.4

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{x - \left(0.5 + 0.125 \cdot \frac{1}{x}\right)}\]

  3. Simplified0.4

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{x - \mathsf{fma}\left(0.125, \frac{1}{x}, 0.5\right)}\]

  4. Final simplification0.4

    \[\leadsto x - \mathsf{fma}\left(0.125, \frac{1}{x}, 0.5\right)\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020057 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (x)
  :name "sqrt times"
  :precision binary64
  (* (sqrt (- x 1)) (sqrt x)))