Average Error: 19.8 → 0.3
Time: 5.0s
Precision: binary64
\[\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} - \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}} \]
↓
\[\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} \cdot \frac{1}{\left(1 + x\right) + \sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{1 + x}} \]
\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} - \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1}}
↓
\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}} \cdot \frac{1}{\left(1 + x\right) + \sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{1 + x}}

(FPCore (x) :precision binary64 (- (/ 1.0 (sqrt x)) (/ 1.0 (sqrt (+ x 1.0)))))
↓
(FPCore (x)
 :precision binary64
 (* (/ 1.0 (sqrt x)) (/ 1.0 (+ (+ 1.0 x) (* (sqrt x) (sqrt (+ 1.0 x)))))))
double code(double x) {
	return (1.0 / sqrt(x)) - (1.0 / sqrt(x + 1.0));
}
↓
double code(double x) {
	return (1.0 / sqrt(x)) * (1.0 / ((1.0 + x) + (sqrt(x) * sqrt(1.0 + x))));
}

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Target

Original19.8
Target0.7
Herbie0.3
\[\frac{1}{\left(x + 1\right) \cdot \sqrt{x} + x \cdot \sqrt{x + 1}} \]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 19.8

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

  3. Applied frac-sub_binary6419.8

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

  4. Simplified19.8

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

  5. Simplified19.8

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

  7. Applied flip--_binary6419.6

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

  8. Simplified0.4

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

  10. Applied *-un-lft-identity_binary640.4

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

  11. Applied add-cube-cbrt_binary640.4

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

  12. Applied times-frac_binary640.4

    \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\sqrt[3]{1} \cdot \sqrt[3]{1}}{1} \cdot \frac{\sqrt[3]{1}}{\sqrt{1 + x} + \sqrt{x}}}}{\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{1 + x}} \]

  13. Applied times-frac_binary640.4

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{\sqrt[3]{1} \cdot \sqrt[3]{1}}{1}}{\sqrt{x}} \cdot \frac{\frac{\sqrt[3]{1}}{\sqrt{1 + x} + \sqrt{x}}}{\sqrt{1 + x}}} \]

  14. Simplified0.4

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{\sqrt{x}}} \cdot \frac{\frac{\sqrt[3]{1}}{\sqrt{1 + x} + \sqrt{x}}}{\sqrt{1 + x}} \]

  15. Simplified0.3

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

  16. Final simplification0.3

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2021198 
(FPCore (x)
  :name "2isqrt (example 3.6)"
  :precision binary64

  :herbie-target
  (/ 1.0 (+ (* (+ x 1.0) (sqrt x)) (* x (sqrt (+ x 1.0)))))

  (- (/ 1.0 (sqrt x)) (/ 1.0 (sqrt (+ x 1.0)))))