2sqrt (example 3.1)

Percentage Accurate: 53.6% → 99.7%

Time: 5.7s

Alternatives: 8

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: 99.7% accurate, 0.7× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{1}{\sqrt{x} + \mathsf{hypot}\left(1, \sqrt{x}\right)} \end{array} \]

FPCore

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

C

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

Java

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

Python

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

Julia

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

MATLAB

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

Wolfram

code[x_] := N[(1.0 / N[(N[Sqrt[x], $MachinePrecision] + N[Sqrt[1.0 ^ 2 + N[Sqrt[x], $MachinePrecision] ^ 2], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 54.1%

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

   1. flip-- 54.4%

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

   2. div-inv 54.4%

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

   3. add-sqr-sqrt 54.5%

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

   4. add-sqr-sqrt 55.9%

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

3. Applied egg-rr 55.9%

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

   1. associate-*r/ 55.9%

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

   2. *-rgt-identity 55.9%

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

   3. remove-double-neg 55.9%

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

   4. sub-neg 55.9%

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

   5. div-sub 54.2%

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

   6. rem-square-sqrt 54.1%

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

   7. sqr-neg 54.1%

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

   8. div-sub 54.5%

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

   9. sqr-neg 54.5%

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

   10. +-commutative 54.5%

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

   11. rem-square-sqrt 55.9%

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

   12. associate--l+ 99.7%

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

   13. +-inverses 99.7%

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

   14. metadata-eval 99.7%

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

   15. sub-neg 99.7%

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

5. Simplified 99.7%

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

   1. add-sqr-sqrt 99.7%

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

   2. hypot-1-def 99.7%

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

7. Applied egg-rr 99.7%

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

8. Final simplification 99.7%

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

Alternative 2: 99.5% accurate, 0.5× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := \sqrt{1 + x} - \sqrt{x}\\ \mathbf{if}\;t_0 \leq 5 \cdot 10^{-5}:\\ \;\;\;\;0.5 \cdot {x}^{-0.5}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;t_0\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (x)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0 (- (sqrt (+ 1.0 x)) (sqrt x))))
   (if (<= t_0 5e-5) (* 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 <= 5e-5) {
		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 <= 5d-5) 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 <= 5e-5) {
		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 <= 5e-5:
		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 <= 5e-5)
		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 <= 5e-5)
		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, 5e-5], 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)) < 5.00000000000000024e-5

   1. Initial program 5.6%

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

      1. flip-- 5.9%

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

      2. div-inv 5.9%

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

      3. add-sqr-sqrt 6.1%

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

      4. add-sqr-sqrt 8.5%

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

   3. Applied egg-rr 8.5%

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

      1. associate-*r/ 8.5%

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

      2. *-rgt-identity 8.5%

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

      3. remove-double-neg 8.5%

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

      4. sub-neg 8.5%

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

      5. div-sub 5.7%

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

      6. rem-square-sqrt 5.5%

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

      7. sqr-neg 5.5%

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

      8. div-sub 6.1%

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

      9. sqr-neg 6.1%

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

      10. +-commutative 6.1%

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

      11. rem-square-sqrt 8.5%

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

      12. associate--l+ 99.6%

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

      13. +-inverses 99.6%

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

      14. metadata-eval 99.6%

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

      15. sub-neg 99.6%

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

   5. Simplified 99.6%

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

      1. flip3-+ 68.4%

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

      2. pow1/2 68.4%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{{\color{blue}{\left({\left(1 + x\right)}^{0.5}\right)}}^{3} + {\left(\sqrt{x}\right)}^{3}}{\sqrt{1 + x} \cdot \sqrt{1 + x} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} - \sqrt{1 + x} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)}} \]

      3. +-commutative 68.4%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{{\left({\color{blue}{\left(x + 1\right)}}^{0.5}\right)}^{3} + {\left(\sqrt{x}\right)}^{3}}{\sqrt{1 + x} \cdot \sqrt{1 + x} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} - \sqrt{1 + x} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)}} \]

      4. pow-pow 68.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{\color{blue}{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{\left(0.5 \cdot 3\right)}} + {\left(\sqrt{x}\right)}^{3}}{\sqrt{1 + x} \cdot \sqrt{1 + x} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} - \sqrt{1 + x} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)}} \]

      5. metadata-eval 68.5%

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

      6. sqrt-pow2 68.4%

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

      7. metadata-eval 68.4%

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

      8. add-sqr-sqrt 68.6%

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

      9. +-commutative 68.6%

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

      10. +-commutative 68.6%

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

      11. add-sqr-sqrt 68.3%

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

      12. sqrt-prod 50.3%

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

      13. *-commutative 50.3%

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

      14. +-commutative 50.3%

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

      15. distribute-lft-in 50.3%

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

      16. *-rgt-identity 50.3%

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

   7. Applied egg-rr 50.3%

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

   8. Taylor expanded in x around inf 99.0%

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

      1. rem-exp-log 91.7%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \sqrt{\frac{1}{\color{blue}{e^{\log x}}}} \]

      2. exp-neg 91.7%

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

      3. unpow1/2 91.7%

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

      4. exp-prod 91.8%

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

      5. distribute-lft-neg-out 91.8%

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

      6. distribute-rgt-neg-in 91.8%

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

      7. metadata-eval 91.8%

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

      8. exp-to-pow 99.1%

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

   10. Simplified 99.1%

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

   if 5.00000000000000024e-5 < (-.f64 (sqrt.f64 (+.f64 x 1)) (sqrt.f64 x))

   1. Initial program 98.9%

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

4. Final simplification 99.0%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\sqrt{1 + x} - \sqrt{x} \leq 5 \cdot 10^{-5}:\\ \;\;\;\;0.5 \cdot {x}^{-0.5}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\sqrt{1 + x} - \sqrt{x}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 3: 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 54.1%

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

   1. flip-- 54.4%

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

   2. div-inv 54.4%

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

   3. add-sqr-sqrt 54.5%

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

   4. add-sqr-sqrt 55.9%

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

3. Applied egg-rr 55.9%

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

   1. associate-*r/ 55.9%

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

   2. *-rgt-identity 55.9%

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

   3. remove-double-neg 55.9%

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

   4. sub-neg 55.9%

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

   5. div-sub 54.2%

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

   6. rem-square-sqrt 54.1%

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

   7. sqr-neg 54.1%

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

   8. div-sub 54.5%

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

   9. sqr-neg 54.5%

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

   10. +-commutative 54.5%

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

   11. rem-square-sqrt 55.9%

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

   12. associate--l+ 99.7%

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

   13. +-inverses 99.7%

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

   14. metadata-eval 99.7%

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

   15. sub-neg 99.7%

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

5. Simplified 99.7%

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

6. Final simplification 99.7%

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

Alternative 4: 98.7% 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 100.0%

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

   2. Taylor expanded in x around 0 98.4%

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

      1. associate--l+ 98.4%

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

      2. *-commutative 98.4%

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

   4. Applied egg-rr 98.4%

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

   if 1 < x

   1. Initial program 9.0%

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

      1. flip-- 9.6%

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

      2. div-inv 9.6%

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

      3. add-sqr-sqrt 9.8%

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

      4. add-sqr-sqrt 12.7%

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

   3. Applied egg-rr 12.7%

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

      1. associate-*r/ 12.7%

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

      2. *-rgt-identity 12.7%

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

      3. remove-double-neg 12.7%

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

      4. sub-neg 12.7%

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

      5. div-sub 9.2%

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

      6. rem-square-sqrt 9.0%

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

      7. sqr-neg 9.0%

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

      8. div-sub 9.8%

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

      9. sqr-neg 9.8%

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

      10. +-commutative 9.8%

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

      11. rem-square-sqrt 12.7%

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

      12. associate--l+ 99.5%

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

      13. +-inverses 99.5%

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

      14. metadata-eval 99.5%

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

      15. sub-neg 99.5%

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

   5. Simplified 99.5%

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

      1. flip3-+ 69.9%

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

      2. pow1/2 69.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{{\color{blue}{\left({\left(1 + x\right)}^{0.5}\right)}}^{3} + {\left(\sqrt{x}\right)}^{3}}{\sqrt{1 + x} \cdot \sqrt{1 + x} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} - \sqrt{1 + x} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)}} \]

      3. +-commutative 69.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{{\left({\color{blue}{\left(x + 1\right)}}^{0.5}\right)}^{3} + {\left(\sqrt{x}\right)}^{3}}{\sqrt{1 + x} \cdot \sqrt{1 + x} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} - \sqrt{1 + x} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)}} \]

      4. pow-pow 69.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{\color{blue}{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{\left(0.5 \cdot 3\right)}} + {\left(\sqrt{x}\right)}^{3}}{\sqrt{1 + x} \cdot \sqrt{1 + x} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} - \sqrt{1 + x} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)}} \]

      5. metadata-eval 69.9%

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

      6. sqrt-pow2 69.8%

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

      7. metadata-eval 69.8%

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

      8. add-sqr-sqrt 70.0%

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

      9. +-commutative 70.0%

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

      10. +-commutative 70.0%

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

      11. add-sqr-sqrt 69.8%

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

      12. sqrt-prod 52.6%

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

      13. *-commutative 52.6%

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

      14. +-commutative 52.6%

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

      15. distribute-lft-in 52.6%

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

      16. *-rgt-identity 52.6%

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

   7. Applied egg-rr 52.6%

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

   8. Taylor expanded in x around inf 96.4%

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

      1. rem-exp-log 89.5%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \sqrt{\frac{1}{\color{blue}{e^{\log x}}}} \]

      2. exp-neg 89.5%

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

      3. unpow1/2 89.5%

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

      4. exp-prod 89.5%

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

      5. distribute-lft-neg-out 89.5%

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

      6. distribute-rgt-neg-in 89.5%

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

      7. metadata-eval 89.5%

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

      8. exp-to-pow 96.6%

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

   10. Simplified 96.6%

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

4. Final simplification 97.5%

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

Alternative 5: 98.7% accurate, 1.9× speedup

Math

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

FPCore

(FPCore (x)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= x 1.0) (- (+ 1.0 (* 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(Float64(1.0 + 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[(N[(1.0 + N[(x * 0.5), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - N[Sqrt[x], $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 100.0%

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

   2. Taylor expanded in x around 0 98.4%

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

   if 1 < x

   1. Initial program 9.0%

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

      1. flip-- 9.6%

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

      2. div-inv 9.6%

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

      3. add-sqr-sqrt 9.8%

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

      4. add-sqr-sqrt 12.7%

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

   3. Applied egg-rr 12.7%

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

      1. associate-*r/ 12.7%

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

      2. *-rgt-identity 12.7%

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

      3. remove-double-neg 12.7%

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

      4. sub-neg 12.7%

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

      5. div-sub 9.2%

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

      6. rem-square-sqrt 9.0%

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

      7. sqr-neg 9.0%

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

      8. div-sub 9.8%

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

      9. sqr-neg 9.8%

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

      10. +-commutative 9.8%

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

      11. rem-square-sqrt 12.7%

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

      12. associate--l+ 99.5%

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

      13. +-inverses 99.5%

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

      14. metadata-eval 99.5%

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

      15. sub-neg 99.5%

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

   5. Simplified 99.5%

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

      1. flip3-+ 69.9%

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

      2. pow1/2 69.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{{\color{blue}{\left({\left(1 + x\right)}^{0.5}\right)}}^{3} + {\left(\sqrt{x}\right)}^{3}}{\sqrt{1 + x} \cdot \sqrt{1 + x} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} - \sqrt{1 + x} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)}} \]

      3. +-commutative 69.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{{\left({\color{blue}{\left(x + 1\right)}}^{0.5}\right)}^{3} + {\left(\sqrt{x}\right)}^{3}}{\sqrt{1 + x} \cdot \sqrt{1 + x} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} - \sqrt{1 + x} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)}} \]

      4. pow-pow 69.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{\color{blue}{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{\left(0.5 \cdot 3\right)}} + {\left(\sqrt{x}\right)}^{3}}{\sqrt{1 + x} \cdot \sqrt{1 + x} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} - \sqrt{1 + x} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)}} \]

      5. metadata-eval 69.9%

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

      6. sqrt-pow2 69.8%

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

      7. metadata-eval 69.8%

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

      8. add-sqr-sqrt 70.0%

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

      9. +-commutative 70.0%

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

      10. +-commutative 70.0%

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

      11. add-sqr-sqrt 69.8%

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

      12. sqrt-prod 52.6%

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

      13. *-commutative 52.6%

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

      14. +-commutative 52.6%

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

      15. distribute-lft-in 52.6%

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

      16. *-rgt-identity 52.6%

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

   7. Applied egg-rr 52.6%

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

   8. Taylor expanded in x around inf 96.4%

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

      1. rem-exp-log 89.5%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \sqrt{\frac{1}{\color{blue}{e^{\log x}}}} \]

      2. exp-neg 89.5%

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

      3. unpow1/2 89.5%

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

      4. exp-prod 89.5%

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

      5. distribute-lft-neg-out 89.5%

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

      6. distribute-rgt-neg-in 89.5%

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

      7. metadata-eval 89.5%

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

      8. exp-to-pow 96.6%

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

   10. Simplified 96.6%

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

4. Final simplification 97.5%

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

Alternative 6: 98.1% 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 100.0%

      \[\sqrt{x + 1} - \sqrt{x} \]
   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 99.8%

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

      4. add-sqr-sqrt 99.8%

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

   3. Applied egg-rr 99.8%

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

      1. associate-*r/ 99.8%

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

      2. *-rgt-identity 99.8%

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

      3. remove-double-neg 99.8%

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

      4. sub-neg 99.8%

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

      5. div-sub 99.8%

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

      6. rem-square-sqrt 99.8%

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

      7. sqr-neg 99.8%

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

      8. div-sub 99.8%

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

      9. sqr-neg 99.8%

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

      10. +-commutative 99.8%

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

      11. rem-square-sqrt 99.8%

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

      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. +-commutative 99.9%

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

      2. add-sqr-sqrt 99.9%

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

      3. pow2 99.9%

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

      4. pow1/2 99.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{{\left(\sqrt{\color{blue}{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{0.5}}}\right)}^{2} + \sqrt{x}} \]

      5. sqrt-pow1 99.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{{\color{blue}{\left({\left(x + 1\right)}^{\left(\frac{0.5}{2}\right)}\right)}}^{2} + \sqrt{x}} \]

      6. metadata-eval 99.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{{\left({\left(x + 1\right)}^{\color{blue}{0.25}}\right)}^{2} + \sqrt{x}} \]

   7. Applied egg-rr 99.9%

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{{\left({\left(x + 1\right)}^{0.25}\right)}^{2}} + \sqrt{x}} \]

   8. Taylor expanded in x around 0 97.7%

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

   if 1 < x

   1. Initial program 9.0%

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

      1. flip-- 9.6%

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

      2. div-inv 9.6%

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

      3. add-sqr-sqrt 9.8%

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

      4. add-sqr-sqrt 12.7%

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

   3. Applied egg-rr 12.7%

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

      1. associate-*r/ 12.7%

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

      2. *-rgt-identity 12.7%

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

      3. remove-double-neg 12.7%

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

      4. sub-neg 12.7%

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

      5. div-sub 9.2%

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

      6. rem-square-sqrt 9.0%

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

      7. sqr-neg 9.0%

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

      8. div-sub 9.8%

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

      9. sqr-neg 9.8%

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

      10. +-commutative 9.8%

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

      11. rem-square-sqrt 12.7%

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

      12. associate--l+ 99.5%

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

      13. +-inverses 99.5%

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

      14. metadata-eval 99.5%

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

      15. sub-neg 99.5%

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

   5. Simplified 99.5%

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

      1. flip3-+ 69.9%

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

      2. pow1/2 69.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{{\color{blue}{\left({\left(1 + x\right)}^{0.5}\right)}}^{3} + {\left(\sqrt{x}\right)}^{3}}{\sqrt{1 + x} \cdot \sqrt{1 + x} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} - \sqrt{1 + x} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)}} \]

      3. +-commutative 69.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{{\left({\color{blue}{\left(x + 1\right)}}^{0.5}\right)}^{3} + {\left(\sqrt{x}\right)}^{3}}{\sqrt{1 + x} \cdot \sqrt{1 + x} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} - \sqrt{1 + x} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)}} \]

      4. pow-pow 69.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{\color{blue}{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{\left(0.5 \cdot 3\right)}} + {\left(\sqrt{x}\right)}^{3}}{\sqrt{1 + x} \cdot \sqrt{1 + x} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} - \sqrt{1 + x} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)}} \]

      5. metadata-eval 69.9%

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

      6. sqrt-pow2 69.8%

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

      7. metadata-eval 69.8%

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

      8. add-sqr-sqrt 70.0%

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

      9. +-commutative 70.0%

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

      10. +-commutative 70.0%

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

      11. add-sqr-sqrt 69.8%

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

      12. sqrt-prod 52.6%

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

      13. *-commutative 52.6%

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

      14. +-commutative 52.6%

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

      15. distribute-lft-in 52.6%

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

      16. *-rgt-identity 52.6%

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

   7. Applied egg-rr 52.6%

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

   8. Taylor expanded in x around inf 96.4%

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

      1. rem-exp-log 89.5%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \sqrt{\frac{1}{\color{blue}{e^{\log x}}}} \]

      2. exp-neg 89.5%

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

      3. unpow1/2 89.5%

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

      4. exp-prod 89.5%

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

      5. distribute-lft-neg-out 89.5%

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

      6. distribute-rgt-neg-in 89.5%

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

      7. metadata-eval 89.5%

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

      8. exp-to-pow 96.6%

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

   10. Simplified 96.6%

       \[\leadsto \color{blue}{0.5 \cdot {x}^{-0.5}} \]
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 7: 96.9% 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 100.0%

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

   2. Taylor expanded in x around 0 95.6%

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

   if 0.25 < x

   1. Initial program 9.0%

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

      1. flip-- 9.6%

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

      2. div-inv 9.6%

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

      3. add-sqr-sqrt 9.8%

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

      4. add-sqr-sqrt 12.7%

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

   3. Applied egg-rr 12.7%

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

      1. associate-*r/ 12.7%

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

      2. *-rgt-identity 12.7%

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

      3. remove-double-neg 12.7%

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

      4. sub-neg 12.7%

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

      5. div-sub 9.2%

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

      6. rem-square-sqrt 9.0%

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

      7. sqr-neg 9.0%

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

      8. div-sub 9.8%

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

      9. sqr-neg 9.8%

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

      10. +-commutative 9.8%

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

      11. rem-square-sqrt 12.7%

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

      12. associate--l+ 99.5%

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

      13. +-inverses 99.5%

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

      14. metadata-eval 99.5%

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

      15. sub-neg 99.5%

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

   5. Simplified 99.5%

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

      1. flip3-+ 69.9%

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

      2. pow1/2 69.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{{\color{blue}{\left({\left(1 + x\right)}^{0.5}\right)}}^{3} + {\left(\sqrt{x}\right)}^{3}}{\sqrt{1 + x} \cdot \sqrt{1 + x} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} - \sqrt{1 + x} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)}} \]

      3. +-commutative 69.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{{\left({\color{blue}{\left(x + 1\right)}}^{0.5}\right)}^{3} + {\left(\sqrt{x}\right)}^{3}}{\sqrt{1 + x} \cdot \sqrt{1 + x} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} - \sqrt{1 + x} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)}} \]

      4. pow-pow 69.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{\color{blue}{{\left(x + 1\right)}^{\left(0.5 \cdot 3\right)}} + {\left(\sqrt{x}\right)}^{3}}{\sqrt{1 + x} \cdot \sqrt{1 + x} + \left(\sqrt{x} \cdot \sqrt{x} - \sqrt{1 + x} \cdot \sqrt{x}\right)}} \]

      5. metadata-eval 69.9%

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

      6. sqrt-pow2 69.8%

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

      7. metadata-eval 69.8%

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

      8. add-sqr-sqrt 70.0%

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

      9. +-commutative 70.0%

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

      10. +-commutative 70.0%

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

      11. add-sqr-sqrt 69.8%

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

      12. sqrt-prod 52.6%

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

      13. *-commutative 52.6%

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

      14. +-commutative 52.6%

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

      15. distribute-lft-in 52.6%

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

      16. *-rgt-identity 52.6%

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

   7. Applied egg-rr 52.6%

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

   8. Taylor expanded in x around inf 96.4%

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

      1. rem-exp-log 89.5%

         \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \sqrt{\frac{1}{\color{blue}{e^{\log x}}}} \]

      2. exp-neg 89.5%

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

      3. unpow1/2 89.5%

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

      4. exp-prod 89.5%

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

      5. distribute-lft-neg-out 89.5%

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

      6. distribute-rgt-neg-in 89.5%

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

      7. metadata-eval 89.5%

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

      8. exp-to-pow 96.6%

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

   10. Simplified 96.6%

       \[\leadsto \color{blue}{0.5 \cdot {x}^{-0.5}} \]
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 8: 51.6% 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 54.1%

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

2. Taylor expanded in x around 0 51.1%

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

3. Final simplification 51.1%

   \[\leadsto 1 \]

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 2023229 
(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)))