2sqrt (example 3.1)

Percentage Accurate: 53.6% → 99.3%

Time: 5.1s

Alternatives: 7

Speedup: 1.9×

Specification

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \sqrt{x + 1} - \sqrt{x} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (x) :precision binary64 (- (sqrt (+ x 1.0)) (sqrt x)))

C

double code(double x) {
	return sqrt((x + 1.0)) - sqrt(x);
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(x)
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    code = sqrt((x + 1.0d0)) - sqrt(x)
end function

Java

public static double code(double x) {
	return Math.sqrt((x + 1.0)) - Math.sqrt(x);
}

Python

def code(x):
	return math.sqrt((x + 1.0)) - math.sqrt(x)

Julia

function code(x)
	return Float64(sqrt(Float64(x + 1.0)) - sqrt(x))
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(x)
	tmp = sqrt((x + 1.0)) - sqrt(x);
end

Wolfram

code[x_] := N[(N[Sqrt[N[(x + 1.0), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - N[Sqrt[x], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]

Initial Program: 53.6% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \sqrt{x + 1} - \sqrt{x} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (x) :precision binary64 (- (sqrt (+ x 1.0)) (sqrt x)))

C

double code(double x) {
	return sqrt((x + 1.0)) - sqrt(x);
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(x)
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    code = sqrt((x + 1.0d0)) - sqrt(x)
end function

Java

public static double code(double x) {
	return Math.sqrt((x + 1.0)) - Math.sqrt(x);
}

Python

def code(x):
	return math.sqrt((x + 1.0)) - math.sqrt(x)

Julia

function code(x)
	return Float64(sqrt(Float64(x + 1.0)) - sqrt(x))
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(x)
	tmp = sqrt((x + 1.0)) - sqrt(x);
end

Wolfram

code[x_] := N[(N[Sqrt[N[(x + 1.0), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - N[Sqrt[x], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]

Alternative 1: 99.3% accurate, 0.5× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := \sqrt{1 + x} - \sqrt{x}\\ \mathbf{if}\;t_0 \leq 2 \cdot 10^{-7}:\\ \;\;\;\;0.5 \cdot {x}^{-0.5}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;t_0\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (x)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0 (- (sqrt (+ 1.0 x)) (sqrt x))))
   (if (<= t_0 2e-7) (* 0.5 (pow x -0.5)) t_0)))

C

double code(double x) {
	double t_0 = sqrt((1.0 + x)) - sqrt(x);
	double tmp;
	if (t_0 <= 2e-7) {
		tmp = 0.5 * pow(x, -0.5);
	} else {
		tmp = t_0;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(x)
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    real(8) :: t_0
    real(8) :: tmp
    t_0 = sqrt((1.0d0 + x)) - sqrt(x)
    if (t_0 <= 2d-7) then
        tmp = 0.5d0 * (x ** (-0.5d0))
    else
        tmp = t_0
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double x) {
	double t_0 = Math.sqrt((1.0 + x)) - Math.sqrt(x);
	double tmp;
	if (t_0 <= 2e-7) {
		tmp = 0.5 * Math.pow(x, -0.5);
	} else {
		tmp = t_0;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(x):
	t_0 = math.sqrt((1.0 + x)) - math.sqrt(x)
	tmp = 0
	if t_0 <= 2e-7:
		tmp = 0.5 * math.pow(x, -0.5)
	else:
		tmp = t_0
	return tmp

Julia

function code(x)
	t_0 = Float64(sqrt(Float64(1.0 + x)) - sqrt(x))
	tmp = 0.0
	if (t_0 <= 2e-7)
		tmp = Float64(0.5 * (x ^ -0.5));
	else
		tmp = t_0;
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(x)
	t_0 = sqrt((1.0 + x)) - sqrt(x);
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (t_0 <= 2e-7)
		tmp = 0.5 * (x ^ -0.5);
	else
		tmp = t_0;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[x_] := Block[{t$95$0 = N[(N[Sqrt[N[(1.0 + x), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - N[Sqrt[x], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]}, If[LessEqual[t$95$0, 2e-7], N[(0.5 * N[Power[x, -0.5], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], t$95$0]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (-.f64 (sqrt.f64 (+.f64 x 1)) (sqrt.f64 x)) < 1.9999999999999999e-7

   1. Initial program 4.4%

      \[\sqrt{x + 1} - \sqrt{x} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. flip3-- 2.7%

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

      2. sqrt-pow2 3.0%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{\left(\frac{3}{2}\right)}} - {\left(\sqrt{x}\right)}^{3}}{\sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x + 1} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)} \]

      3. metadata-eval 3.0%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{\color{blue}{1.5}} - {\left(\sqrt{x}\right)}^{3}}{\sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x + 1} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)} \]

      4. sqrt-pow2 2.7%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - \color{blue}{{x}^{\left(\frac{3}{2}\right)}}}{\sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x + 1} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)} \]

      5. metadata-eval 2.7%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - {x}^{\color{blue}{1.5}}}{\sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x + 1} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)} \]

      6. add-sqr-sqrt 2.7%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - {x}^{1.5}}{\color{blue}{\left(x + 1\right)} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)} \]

      7. add-sqr-sqrt 2.7%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - {x}^{1.5}}{\left(x + 1\right) + \left(\color{blue}{x} + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)} \]

      8. associate-+r+ 2.7%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - {x}^{1.5}}{\color{blue}{\left(\left(x + 1\right) + x\right) + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}}} \]

      9. sqrt-unprod 2.7%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - {x}^{1.5}}{\left(\left(x + 1\right) + x\right) + \color{blue}{\sqrt{\left(x + 1\right) \cdot x}}} \]

   3. Applied egg-rr 2.7%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - {x}^{1.5}}{\left(\left(x + 1\right) + x\right) + \sqrt{\left(x + 1\right) \cdot x}}} \]

   4. Taylor expanded in x around inf 99.6%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{0.5 \cdot \sqrt{\frac{1}{x}}} \]
   5. Step-by-step derivation

      1. expm1-log1p-u 99.6%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\sqrt{\frac{1}{x}}\right)\right)} \]

      2. expm1-udef 6.7%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left(\sqrt{\frac{1}{x}}\right)} - 1\right)} \]

      3. inv-pow 6.7%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \left(e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left(\sqrt{\color{blue}{{x}^{-1}}}\right)} - 1\right) \]

      4. sqrt-pow1 6.7%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \left(e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{{x}^{\left(\frac{-1}{2}\right)}}\right)} - 1\right) \]

      5. metadata-eval 6.7%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \left(e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left({x}^{\color{blue}{-0.5}}\right)} - 1\right) \]

   6. Applied egg-rr 6.7%

      \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left({x}^{-0.5}\right)} - 1\right)} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. expm1-def 99.8%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left({x}^{-0.5}\right)\right)} \]

      2. expm1-log1p 99.8%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{{x}^{-0.5}} \]

   8. Simplified 99.8%

      \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{{x}^{-0.5}} \]

   if 1.9999999999999999e-7 < (-.f64 (sqrt.f64 (+.f64 x 1)) (sqrt.f64 x))

   1. Initial program 99.7%

      \[\sqrt{x + 1} - \sqrt{x} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 99.8%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\sqrt{1 + x} - \sqrt{x} \leq 2 \cdot 10^{-7}:\\ \;\;\;\;0.5 \cdot {x}^{-0.5}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\sqrt{1 + x} - \sqrt{x}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 2: 99.7% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{1}{\sqrt{x} + \sqrt{1 + x}} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (x) :precision binary64 (/ 1.0 (+ (sqrt x) (sqrt (+ 1.0 x)))))

C

double code(double x) {
	return 1.0 / (sqrt(x) + sqrt((1.0 + x)));
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(x)
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    code = 1.0d0 / (sqrt(x) + sqrt((1.0d0 + x)))
end function

Java

public static double code(double x) {
	return 1.0 / (Math.sqrt(x) + Math.sqrt((1.0 + x)));
}

Python

def code(x):
	return 1.0 / (math.sqrt(x) + math.sqrt((1.0 + x)))

Julia

function code(x)
	return Float64(1.0 / Float64(sqrt(x) + sqrt(Float64(1.0 + x))))
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(x)
	tmp = 1.0 / (sqrt(x) + sqrt((1.0 + x)));
end

Wolfram

code[x_] := N[(1.0 / N[(N[Sqrt[x], $MachinePrecision] + N[Sqrt[N[(1.0 + x), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 53.5%

   \[\sqrt{x + 1} - \sqrt{x} \]
2. Step-by-step derivation

   1. flip-- 53.7%

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

   2. div-inv 53.7%

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

   3. add-sqr-sqrt 53.7%

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

   4. add-sqr-sqrt 54.1%

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

3. Applied egg-rr 54.1%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\left(x + 1\right) - x\right) \cdot \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1} + \sqrt{x}}} \]
4. Step-by-step derivation

   1. associate-*r/ 54.1%

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

   2. *-rgt-identity 54.1%

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

   3. remove-double-neg 54.1%

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

   4. sub-neg 54.1%

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

   5. div-sub 53.5%

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

   6. rem-square-sqrt 53.4%

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

   7. sqr-neg 53.4%

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

   8. div-sub 53.7%

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

   9. sqr-neg 53.7%

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

   10. +-commutative 53.7%

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

   11. rem-square-sqrt 54.1%

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

   12. associate--l+ 99.8%

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

   13. +-inverses 99.8%

       \[\leadsto \frac{1 + \color{blue}{0}}{\sqrt{x + 1} - \left(-\sqrt{x}\right)} \]

   14. metadata-eval 99.8%

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

   15. sub-neg 99.8%

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

5. Simplified 99.8%

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

6. Final simplification 99.8%

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

Alternative 3: 98.5% accurate, 1.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;x \leq 1:\\ \;\;\;\;x \cdot 0.5 + \left(1 - \sqrt{x}\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;0.5 \cdot {x}^{-0.5}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (x)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= x 1.0) (+ (* x 0.5) (- 1.0 (sqrt x))) (* 0.5 (pow x -0.5))))

C

double code(double x) {
	double tmp;
	if (x <= 1.0) {
		tmp = (x * 0.5) + (1.0 - sqrt(x));
	} else {
		tmp = 0.5 * pow(x, -0.5);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(x)
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    real(8) :: tmp
    if (x <= 1.0d0) then
        tmp = (x * 0.5d0) + (1.0d0 - sqrt(x))
    else
        tmp = 0.5d0 * (x ** (-0.5d0))
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double x) {
	double tmp;
	if (x <= 1.0) {
		tmp = (x * 0.5) + (1.0 - Math.sqrt(x));
	} else {
		tmp = 0.5 * Math.pow(x, -0.5);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(x):
	tmp = 0
	if x <= 1.0:
		tmp = (x * 0.5) + (1.0 - math.sqrt(x))
	else:
		tmp = 0.5 * math.pow(x, -0.5)
	return tmp

Julia

function code(x)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (x <= 1.0)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(x * 0.5) + Float64(1.0 - sqrt(x)));
	else
		tmp = Float64(0.5 * (x ^ -0.5));
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(x)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (x <= 1.0)
		tmp = (x * 0.5) + (1.0 - sqrt(x));
	else
		tmp = 0.5 * (x ^ -0.5);
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[x_] := If[LessEqual[x, 1.0], N[(N[(x * 0.5), $MachinePrecision] + N[(1.0 - N[Sqrt[x], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(0.5 * N[Power[x, -0.5], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if x < 1

   1. Initial program 99.9%

      \[\sqrt{x + 1} - \sqrt{x} \]

   2. Taylor expanded in x around 0 97.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(0.5 \cdot x + 1\right)} - \sqrt{x} \]
   3. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate--l+ 97.5%

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

      2. *-commutative 97.5%

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

   4. Applied egg-rr 97.5%

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

   if 1 < x

   1. Initial program 6.4%

      \[\sqrt{x + 1} - \sqrt{x} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. flip3-- 4.8%

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

      2. sqrt-pow2 5.1%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{\left(\frac{3}{2}\right)}} - {\left(\sqrt{x}\right)}^{3}}{\sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x + 1} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)} \]

      3. metadata-eval 5.1%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{\color{blue}{1.5}} - {\left(\sqrt{x}\right)}^{3}}{\sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x + 1} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)} \]

      4. sqrt-pow2 4.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - \color{blue}{{x}^{\left(\frac{3}{2}\right)}}}{\sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x + 1} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)} \]

      5. metadata-eval 4.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - {x}^{\color{blue}{1.5}}}{\sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x + 1} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)} \]

      6. add-sqr-sqrt 4.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - {x}^{1.5}}{\color{blue}{\left(x + 1\right)} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)} \]

      7. add-sqr-sqrt 4.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - {x}^{1.5}}{\left(x + 1\right) + \left(\color{blue}{x} + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)} \]

      8. associate-+r+ 4.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - {x}^{1.5}}{\color{blue}{\left(\left(x + 1\right) + x\right) + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}}} \]

      9. sqrt-unprod 4.8%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - {x}^{1.5}}{\left(\left(x + 1\right) + x\right) + \color{blue}{\sqrt{\left(x + 1\right) \cdot x}}} \]

   3. Applied egg-rr 4.8%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - {x}^{1.5}}{\left(\left(x + 1\right) + x\right) + \sqrt{\left(x + 1\right) \cdot x}}} \]

   4. Taylor expanded in x around inf 98.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{0.5 \cdot \sqrt{\frac{1}{x}}} \]
   5. Step-by-step derivation

      1. expm1-log1p-u 98.0%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\sqrt{\frac{1}{x}}\right)\right)} \]

      2. expm1-udef 7.2%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left(\sqrt{\frac{1}{x}}\right)} - 1\right)} \]

      3. inv-pow 7.2%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \left(e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left(\sqrt{\color{blue}{{x}^{-1}}}\right)} - 1\right) \]

      4. sqrt-pow1 7.2%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \left(e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{{x}^{\left(\frac{-1}{2}\right)}}\right)} - 1\right) \]

      5. metadata-eval 7.2%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \left(e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left({x}^{\color{blue}{-0.5}}\right)} - 1\right) \]

   6. Applied egg-rr 7.2%

      \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left({x}^{-0.5}\right)} - 1\right)} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. expm1-def 98.2%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left({x}^{-0.5}\right)\right)} \]

      2. expm1-log1p 98.2%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{{x}^{-0.5}} \]

   8. Simplified 98.2%

      \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{{x}^{-0.5}} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 97.9%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;x \leq 1:\\ \;\;\;\;x \cdot 0.5 + \left(1 - \sqrt{x}\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;0.5 \cdot {x}^{-0.5}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 4: 98.5% accurate, 1.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;x \leq 1:\\ \;\;\;\;1 + \left(x \cdot 0.5 - \sqrt{x}\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;0.5 \cdot {x}^{-0.5}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (x)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= x 1.0) (+ 1.0 (- (* x 0.5) (sqrt x))) (* 0.5 (pow x -0.5))))

C

double code(double x) {
	double tmp;
	if (x <= 1.0) {
		tmp = 1.0 + ((x * 0.5) - sqrt(x));
	} else {
		tmp = 0.5 * pow(x, -0.5);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(x)
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    real(8) :: tmp
    if (x <= 1.0d0) then
        tmp = 1.0d0 + ((x * 0.5d0) - sqrt(x))
    else
        tmp = 0.5d0 * (x ** (-0.5d0))
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double x) {
	double tmp;
	if (x <= 1.0) {
		tmp = 1.0 + ((x * 0.5) - Math.sqrt(x));
	} else {
		tmp = 0.5 * Math.pow(x, -0.5);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(x):
	tmp = 0
	if x <= 1.0:
		tmp = 1.0 + ((x * 0.5) - math.sqrt(x))
	else:
		tmp = 0.5 * math.pow(x, -0.5)
	return tmp

Julia

function code(x)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (x <= 1.0)
		tmp = Float64(1.0 + Float64(Float64(x * 0.5) - sqrt(x)));
	else
		tmp = Float64(0.5 * (x ^ -0.5));
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(x)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (x <= 1.0)
		tmp = 1.0 + ((x * 0.5) - sqrt(x));
	else
		tmp = 0.5 * (x ^ -0.5);
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[x_] := If[LessEqual[x, 1.0], N[(1.0 + N[(N[(x * 0.5), $MachinePrecision] - N[Sqrt[x], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(0.5 * N[Power[x, -0.5], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if x < 1

   1. Initial program 99.9%

      \[\sqrt{x + 1} - \sqrt{x} \]

   2. Taylor expanded in x around 0 97.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(0.5 \cdot x + 1\right)} - \sqrt{x} \]
   3. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate--l+ 97.5%

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

      2. *-commutative 97.5%

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

   4. Applied egg-rr 97.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{x \cdot 0.5 + \left(1 - \sqrt{x}\right)} \]
   5. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative 97.5%

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

      2. associate-+l- 97.5%

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

   6. Applied egg-rr 97.5%

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

   if 1 < x

   1. Initial program 6.4%

      \[\sqrt{x + 1} - \sqrt{x} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. flip3-- 4.8%

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

      2. sqrt-pow2 5.1%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{\left(\frac{3}{2}\right)}} - {\left(\sqrt{x}\right)}^{3}}{\sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x + 1} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)} \]

      3. metadata-eval 5.1%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{\color{blue}{1.5}} - {\left(\sqrt{x}\right)}^{3}}{\sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x + 1} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)} \]

      4. sqrt-pow2 4.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - \color{blue}{{x}^{\left(\frac{3}{2}\right)}}}{\sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x + 1} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)} \]

      5. metadata-eval 4.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - {x}^{\color{blue}{1.5}}}{\sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x + 1} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)} \]

      6. add-sqr-sqrt 4.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - {x}^{1.5}}{\color{blue}{\left(x + 1\right)} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)} \]

      7. add-sqr-sqrt 4.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - {x}^{1.5}}{\left(x + 1\right) + \left(\color{blue}{x} + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)} \]

      8. associate-+r+ 4.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - {x}^{1.5}}{\color{blue}{\left(\left(x + 1\right) + x\right) + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}}} \]

      9. sqrt-unprod 4.8%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - {x}^{1.5}}{\left(\left(x + 1\right) + x\right) + \color{blue}{\sqrt{\left(x + 1\right) \cdot x}}} \]

   3. Applied egg-rr 4.8%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - {x}^{1.5}}{\left(\left(x + 1\right) + x\right) + \sqrt{\left(x + 1\right) \cdot x}}} \]

   4. Taylor expanded in x around inf 98.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{0.5 \cdot \sqrt{\frac{1}{x}}} \]
   5. Step-by-step derivation

      1. expm1-log1p-u 98.0%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\sqrt{\frac{1}{x}}\right)\right)} \]

      2. expm1-udef 7.2%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left(\sqrt{\frac{1}{x}}\right)} - 1\right)} \]

      3. inv-pow 7.2%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \left(e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left(\sqrt{\color{blue}{{x}^{-1}}}\right)} - 1\right) \]

      4. sqrt-pow1 7.2%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \left(e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{{x}^{\left(\frac{-1}{2}\right)}}\right)} - 1\right) \]

      5. metadata-eval 7.2%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \left(e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left({x}^{\color{blue}{-0.5}}\right)} - 1\right) \]

   6. Applied egg-rr 7.2%

      \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left({x}^{-0.5}\right)} - 1\right)} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. expm1-def 98.2%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left({x}^{-0.5}\right)\right)} \]

      2. expm1-log1p 98.2%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{{x}^{-0.5}} \]

   8. Simplified 98.2%

      \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{{x}^{-0.5}} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 97.9%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;x \leq 1:\\ \;\;\;\;1 + \left(x \cdot 0.5 - \sqrt{x}\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;0.5 \cdot {x}^{-0.5}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 5: 97.9% accurate, 1.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;x \leq 1:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{1 + \sqrt{x}}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;0.5 \cdot {x}^{-0.5}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (x)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= x 1.0) (/ 1.0 (+ 1.0 (sqrt x))) (* 0.5 (pow x -0.5))))

C

double code(double x) {
	double tmp;
	if (x <= 1.0) {
		tmp = 1.0 / (1.0 + sqrt(x));
	} else {
		tmp = 0.5 * pow(x, -0.5);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(x)
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    real(8) :: tmp
    if (x <= 1.0d0) then
        tmp = 1.0d0 / (1.0d0 + sqrt(x))
    else
        tmp = 0.5d0 * (x ** (-0.5d0))
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double x) {
	double tmp;
	if (x <= 1.0) {
		tmp = 1.0 / (1.0 + Math.sqrt(x));
	} else {
		tmp = 0.5 * Math.pow(x, -0.5);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(x):
	tmp = 0
	if x <= 1.0:
		tmp = 1.0 / (1.0 + math.sqrt(x))
	else:
		tmp = 0.5 * math.pow(x, -0.5)
	return tmp

Julia

function code(x)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (x <= 1.0)
		tmp = Float64(1.0 / Float64(1.0 + sqrt(x)));
	else
		tmp = Float64(0.5 * (x ^ -0.5));
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(x)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (x <= 1.0)
		tmp = 1.0 / (1.0 + sqrt(x));
	else
		tmp = 0.5 * (x ^ -0.5);
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[x_] := If[LessEqual[x, 1.0], N[(1.0 / N[(1.0 + N[Sqrt[x], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(0.5 * N[Power[x, -0.5], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if x < 1

   1. Initial program 99.9%

      \[\sqrt{x + 1} - \sqrt{x} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. flip-- 99.9%

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

      2. div-inv 99.9%

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

      3. add-sqr-sqrt 99.9%

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

      4. add-sqr-sqrt 99.9%

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

   3. Applied egg-rr 99.9%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\left(x + 1\right) - x\right) \cdot \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1} + \sqrt{x}}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate-*r/ 99.9%

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

      2. *-rgt-identity 99.9%

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

      3. remove-double-neg 99.9%

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

      4. sub-neg 99.9%

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

      5. div-sub 99.9%

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

      6. rem-square-sqrt 99.9%

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

      7. sqr-neg 99.9%

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

      8. div-sub 99.9%

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

      9. sqr-neg 99.9%

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

      10. +-commutative 99.9%

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

      11. rem-square-sqrt 99.9%

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

      12. associate--l+ 99.9%

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

      13. +-inverses 99.9%

          \[\leadsto \frac{1 + \color{blue}{0}}{\sqrt{x + 1} - \left(-\sqrt{x}\right)} \]

      14. metadata-eval 99.9%

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

      15. sub-neg 99.9%

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

   5. Simplified 99.9%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{\sqrt{1 + x} + \sqrt{x}}} \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

      1. add-sqr-sqrt 99.8%

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

   7. Applied egg-rr 99.8%

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

   8. Taylor expanded in x around 0 96.1%

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

   if 1 < x

   1. Initial program 6.4%

      \[\sqrt{x + 1} - \sqrt{x} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. flip3-- 4.8%

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

      2. sqrt-pow2 5.1%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{\left(\frac{3}{2}\right)}} - {\left(\sqrt{x}\right)}^{3}}{\sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x + 1} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)} \]

      3. metadata-eval 5.1%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{\color{blue}{1.5}} - {\left(\sqrt{x}\right)}^{3}}{\sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x + 1} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)} \]

      4. sqrt-pow2 4.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - \color{blue}{{x}^{\left(\frac{3}{2}\right)}}}{\sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x + 1} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)} \]

      5. metadata-eval 4.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - {x}^{\color{blue}{1.5}}}{\sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x + 1} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)} \]

      6. add-sqr-sqrt 4.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - {x}^{1.5}}{\color{blue}{\left(x + 1\right)} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)} \]

      7. add-sqr-sqrt 4.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - {x}^{1.5}}{\left(x + 1\right) + \left(\color{blue}{x} + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)} \]

      8. associate-+r+ 4.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - {x}^{1.5}}{\color{blue}{\left(\left(x + 1\right) + x\right) + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}}} \]

      9. sqrt-unprod 4.8%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - {x}^{1.5}}{\left(\left(x + 1\right) + x\right) + \color{blue}{\sqrt{\left(x + 1\right) \cdot x}}} \]

   3. Applied egg-rr 4.8%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - {x}^{1.5}}{\left(\left(x + 1\right) + x\right) + \sqrt{\left(x + 1\right) \cdot x}}} \]

   4. Taylor expanded in x around inf 98.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{0.5 \cdot \sqrt{\frac{1}{x}}} \]
   5. Step-by-step derivation

      1. expm1-log1p-u 98.0%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\sqrt{\frac{1}{x}}\right)\right)} \]

      2. expm1-udef 7.2%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left(\sqrt{\frac{1}{x}}\right)} - 1\right)} \]

      3. inv-pow 7.2%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \left(e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left(\sqrt{\color{blue}{{x}^{-1}}}\right)} - 1\right) \]

      4. sqrt-pow1 7.2%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \left(e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{{x}^{\left(\frac{-1}{2}\right)}}\right)} - 1\right) \]

      5. metadata-eval 7.2%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \left(e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left({x}^{\color{blue}{-0.5}}\right)} - 1\right) \]

   6. Applied egg-rr 7.2%

      \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left({x}^{-0.5}\right)} - 1\right)} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. expm1-def 98.2%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left({x}^{-0.5}\right)\right)} \]

      2. expm1-log1p 98.2%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{{x}^{-0.5}} \]

   8. Simplified 98.2%

      \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{{x}^{-0.5}} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 97.1%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;x \leq 1:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{1 + \sqrt{x}}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;0.5 \cdot {x}^{-0.5}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 6: 96.8% accurate, 1.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;x \leq 0.25:\\ \;\;\;\;1\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;0.5 \cdot {x}^{-0.5}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (x) :precision binary64 (if (<= x 0.25) 1.0 (* 0.5 (pow x -0.5))))

C

double code(double x) {
	double tmp;
	if (x <= 0.25) {
		tmp = 1.0;
	} else {
		tmp = 0.5 * pow(x, -0.5);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(x)
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    real(8) :: tmp
    if (x <= 0.25d0) then
        tmp = 1.0d0
    else
        tmp = 0.5d0 * (x ** (-0.5d0))
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double x) {
	double tmp;
	if (x <= 0.25) {
		tmp = 1.0;
	} else {
		tmp = 0.5 * Math.pow(x, -0.5);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(x):
	tmp = 0
	if x <= 0.25:
		tmp = 1.0
	else:
		tmp = 0.5 * math.pow(x, -0.5)
	return tmp

Julia

function code(x)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (x <= 0.25)
		tmp = 1.0;
	else
		tmp = Float64(0.5 * (x ^ -0.5));
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(x)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (x <= 0.25)
		tmp = 1.0;
	else
		tmp = 0.5 * (x ^ -0.5);
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[x_] := If[LessEqual[x, 0.25], 1.0, N[(0.5 * N[Power[x, -0.5], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if x < 0.25

   1. Initial program 99.9%

      \[\sqrt{x + 1} - \sqrt{x} \]

   2. Taylor expanded in x around 0 93.9%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{1} \]

   if 0.25 < x

   1. Initial program 6.4%

      \[\sqrt{x + 1} - \sqrt{x} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. flip3-- 4.8%

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

      2. sqrt-pow2 5.1%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{\left(\frac{3}{2}\right)}} - {\left(\sqrt{x}\right)}^{3}}{\sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x + 1} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)} \]

      3. metadata-eval 5.1%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{\color{blue}{1.5}} - {\left(\sqrt{x}\right)}^{3}}{\sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x + 1} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)} \]

      4. sqrt-pow2 4.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - \color{blue}{{x}^{\left(\frac{3}{2}\right)}}}{\sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x + 1} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)} \]

      5. metadata-eval 4.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - {x}^{\color{blue}{1.5}}}{\sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x + 1} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)} \]

      6. add-sqr-sqrt 4.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - {x}^{1.5}}{\color{blue}{\left(x + 1\right)} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)} \]

      7. add-sqr-sqrt 4.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - {x}^{1.5}}{\left(x + 1\right) + \left(\color{blue}{x} + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)} \]

      8. associate-+r+ 4.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - {x}^{1.5}}{\color{blue}{\left(\left(x + 1\right) + x\right) + \sqrt{x + 1} \cdot \sqrt{x}}} \]

      9. sqrt-unprod 4.8%

         \[\leadsto \frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - {x}^{1.5}}{\left(\left(x + 1\right) + x\right) + \color{blue}{\sqrt{\left(x + 1\right) \cdot x}}} \]

   3. Applied egg-rr 4.8%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{1.5} - {x}^{1.5}}{\left(\left(x + 1\right) + x\right) + \sqrt{\left(x + 1\right) \cdot x}}} \]

   4. Taylor expanded in x around inf 98.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{0.5 \cdot \sqrt{\frac{1}{x}}} \]
   5. Step-by-step derivation

      1. expm1-log1p-u 98.0%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\sqrt{\frac{1}{x}}\right)\right)} \]

      2. expm1-udef 7.2%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left(\sqrt{\frac{1}{x}}\right)} - 1\right)} \]

      3. inv-pow 7.2%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \left(e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left(\sqrt{\color{blue}{{x}^{-1}}}\right)} - 1\right) \]

      4. sqrt-pow1 7.2%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \left(e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left(\color{blue}{{x}^{\left(\frac{-1}{2}\right)}}\right)} - 1\right) \]

      5. metadata-eval 7.2%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \left(e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left({x}^{\color{blue}{-0.5}}\right)} - 1\right) \]

   6. Applied egg-rr 7.2%

      \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left({x}^{-0.5}\right)} - 1\right)} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. expm1-def 98.2%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left({x}^{-0.5}\right)\right)} \]

      2. expm1-log1p 98.2%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{{x}^{-0.5}} \]

   8. Simplified 98.2%

      \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{{x}^{-0.5}} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 96.1%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;x \leq 0.25:\\ \;\;\;\;1\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;0.5 \cdot {x}^{-0.5}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 7: 51.5% accurate, 205.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ 1 \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (x) :precision binary64 1.0)

C

double code(double x) {
	return 1.0;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(x)
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    code = 1.0d0
end function

Java

public static double code(double x) {
	return 1.0;
}

Python

def code(x):
	return 1.0

Julia

function code(x)
	return 1.0
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(x)
	tmp = 1.0;
end

Wolfram

code[x_] := 1.0

Derivation

1. Initial program 53.5%

   \[\sqrt{x + 1} - \sqrt{x} \]

2. Taylor expanded in x around 0 50.7%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{1} \]

3. Final simplification 50.7%

   \[\leadsto 1 \]

Developer target: 99.7% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1} + \sqrt{x}} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (x) :precision binary64 (/ 1.0 (+ (sqrt (+ x 1.0)) (sqrt x))))

C

double code(double x) {
	return 1.0 / (sqrt((x + 1.0)) + sqrt(x));
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(x)
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    code = 1.0d0 / (sqrt((x + 1.0d0)) + sqrt(x))
end function

Java

public static double code(double x) {
	return 1.0 / (Math.sqrt((x + 1.0)) + Math.sqrt(x));
}

Python

def code(x):
	return 1.0 / (math.sqrt((x + 1.0)) + math.sqrt(x))

Julia

function code(x)
	return Float64(1.0 / Float64(sqrt(Float64(x + 1.0)) + sqrt(x)))
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(x)
	tmp = 1.0 / (sqrt((x + 1.0)) + sqrt(x));
end

Wolfram

code[x_] := N[(1.0 / N[(N[Sqrt[N[(x + 1.0), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] + N[Sqrt[x], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2023207 
(FPCore (x)
  :name "2sqrt (example 3.1)"
  :precision binary64

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

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