Average Error: 19.6 → 0.3
Time: 7.4s
Precision: 64
\[\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} - \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}}\]
↓
\[\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} \cdot \frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\sqrt{x + 1}, \sqrt{x}, x + 1\right)}\]
\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} - \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}}
↓
\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} \cdot \frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\sqrt{x + 1}, \sqrt{x}, x + 1\right)}
double f(double x) {
        double r181667 = 1.0;
        double r181668 = x;
        double r181669 = sqrt(r181668);
        double r181670 = r181667 / r181669;
        double r181671 = r181668 + r181667;
        double r181672 = sqrt(r181671);
        double r181673 = r181667 / r181672;
        double r181674 = r181670 - r181673;
        return r181674;
}
↓
double f(double x) {
        double r181675 = 1.0;
        double r181676 = x;
        double r181677 = sqrt(r181676);
        double r181678 = r181675 / r181677;
        double r181679 = r181676 + r181675;
        double r181680 = sqrt(r181679);
        double r181681 = fma(r181680, r181677, r181679);
        double r181682 = r181675 / r181681;
        double r181683 = r181678 * r181682;
        return r181683;
}

Error

Bits error versus x

Target

Original19.6
Target0.6
Herbie0.3
\[\frac{1}{\left(x + 1\right) \cdot \sqrt{x} + x \cdot \sqrt{x + 1}}\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 19.6

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

  3. Applied frac-sub19.6

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

  4. Simplified19.6

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

  6. Applied flip--19.3

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

  7. Simplified18.9

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

  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

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

  12. Final simplification0.3

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020083 +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)))))