Average Error: 20.2 → 0.6
Time: 5.3s
Precision: 64
\[\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} - \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}}\]
↓
\[\frac{1 \cdot \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1} + \sqrt{x}}}{\left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \left(\sqrt[3]{\sqrt{x + 1}} \cdot \sqrt[3]{\sqrt{x + 1}}\right)\right) \cdot \sqrt[3]{\sqrt{x + 1}}}\]
\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} - \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}}
↓
\frac{1 \cdot \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1} + \sqrt{x}}}{\left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \left(\sqrt[3]{\sqrt{x + 1}} \cdot \sqrt[3]{\sqrt{x + 1}}\right)\right) \cdot \sqrt[3]{\sqrt{x + 1}}}
double code(double x) {
	return ((1.0 / sqrt(x)) - (1.0 / sqrt((x + 1.0))));
}
↓
double code(double x) {
	return ((1.0 * (1.0 / (sqrt((x + 1.0)) + sqrt(x)))) / ((sqrt(x) * (cbrt(sqrt((x + 1.0))) * cbrt(sqrt((x + 1.0))))) * cbrt(sqrt((x + 1.0)))));
}

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Target

Original20.2
Target0.7
Herbie0.6
\[\frac{1}{\left(x + 1\right) \cdot \sqrt{x} + x \cdot \sqrt{x + 1}}\]

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--19.9

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

  7. Simplified19.5

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

  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-cube-cbrt0.6

    \[\leadsto \frac{1 \cdot \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1} + \sqrt{x}}}{\sqrt{x} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(\sqrt[3]{\sqrt{x + 1}} \cdot \sqrt[3]{\sqrt{x + 1}}\right) \cdot \sqrt[3]{\sqrt{x + 1}}\right)}}\]

  11. Applied associate-*r*0.6

    \[\leadsto \frac{1 \cdot \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1} + \sqrt{x}}}{\color{blue}{\left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \left(\sqrt[3]{\sqrt{x + 1}} \cdot \sqrt[3]{\sqrt{x + 1}}\right)\right) \cdot \sqrt[3]{\sqrt{x + 1}}}}\]

  12. Final simplification0.6

    \[\leadsto \frac{1 \cdot \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1} + \sqrt{x}}}{\left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \left(\sqrt[3]{\sqrt{x + 1}} \cdot \sqrt[3]{\sqrt{x + 1}}\right)\right) \cdot \sqrt[3]{\sqrt{x + 1}}}\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020060 
(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)))))