Average Error: 0.5 → 0.3
Time: 4.7s
Precision: binary64
\[\sqrt{x - 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\]
↓
\[\left(x - \frac{0.125}{x}\right) - 0.5\]
\sqrt{x - 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}
↓
\left(x - \frac{0.125}{x}\right) - 0.5
double code(double x) {
	return ((double) (((double) sqrt(((double) (x - 1.0)))) * ((double) sqrt(x))));
}
↓
double code(double x) {
	return ((double) (((double) (x - (0.125 / 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 0.3

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

  3. Simplified0.3

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

  4. Final simplification0.3

    \[\leadsto \left(x - \frac{0.125}{x}\right) - 0.5\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020182 
(FPCore (x)
  :name "sqrt times"
  :precision binary64
  (* (sqrt (- x 1.0)) (sqrt x)))