Average Error: 19.5 → 0.5
Time: 7.7s
Precision: 64
\[\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} - \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}}\]
↓
\[\frac{\frac{1 \cdot 1}{x + 1}}{\frac{\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} + \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}}}{\frac{1}{x}}}\]
\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} - \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}}
↓
\frac{\frac{1 \cdot 1}{x + 1}}{\frac{\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} + \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}}}{\frac{1}{x}}}
double code(double x) {
	return ((1.0 / sqrt(x)) - (1.0 / sqrt((x + 1.0))));
}
↓
double code(double x) {
	return (((1.0 * 1.0) / (x + 1.0)) / (((1.0 / sqrt(x)) + (1.0 / sqrt((x + 1.0)))) / (1.0 / x)));
}

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Target

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

Derivation

  1. Initial program 19.5

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

  3. Applied flip--19.5

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

  5. Applied frac-times24.7

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

  6. Applied frac-times19.6

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

  7. Applied frac-sub19.4

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

  8. Simplified18.9

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

  9. Simplified18.9

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

  10. Taylor expanded around 0 5.5

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

  12. Applied times-frac5.1

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

  13. Applied associate-/l*0.5

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

  14. Final simplification0.5

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020058 +o rules:numerics
(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)))))