2sqrt (example 3.1)

Percentage Accurate: 53.9% → 99.7%

Time: 9.0s

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: 53.9% 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, 1.0× speedup

Math

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

FPCore

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

C

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

Fortran

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

Java

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

Python

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

Julia

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

MATLAB

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

Wolfram

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

Derivation

1. Initial program 51.8%

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

   1. flip-- 52.4%

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

   2. div-inv 52.4%

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

   3. add-sqr-sqrt 52.5%

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

   4. add-sqr-sqrt 53.4%

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

   5. associate--l+ 53.4%

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

3. Applied egg-rr 53.4%

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

   1. +-commutative 53.4%

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

   2. associate-+l- 99.8%

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

   3. +-inverses 99.8%

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

   4. metadata-eval 99.8%

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

   5. associate-*r/ 99.8%

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

   6. metadata-eval 99.8%

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

   7. +-commutative 99.8%

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

5. Simplified 99.8%

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

6. Final simplification 99.8%

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

Alternative 2: 99.5% accurate, 0.5× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := \sqrt{1 + x} - \sqrt{x}\\ \mathbf{if}\;t_0 \leq 2 \cdot 10^{-5}:\\ \;\;\;\;0.5 \cdot {x}^{-0.5}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;t_0\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (x)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0 (- (sqrt (+ 1.0 x)) (sqrt x))))
   (if (<= t_0 2e-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 <= 2e-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 <= 2d-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 <= 2e-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 <= 2e-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 <= 2e-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 <= 2e-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, 2e-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)) < 2.00000000000000016e-5

   1. Initial program 5.4%

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

      1. flip-- 6.2%

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

      2. div-inv 6.2%

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

      3. add-sqr-sqrt 6.0%

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

      4. add-sqr-sqrt 7.6%

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

      5. associate--l+ 7.6%

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

   3. Applied egg-rr 7.6%

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

      1. +-commutative 7.6%

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

      2. associate-+l- 99.6%

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

      3. +-inverses 99.6%

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

      4. metadata-eval 99.6%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 99.6%

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

      6. metadata-eval 99.6%

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

      7. +-commutative 99.6%

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

   5. Simplified 99.6%

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

      1. add-sqr-sqrt 99.2%

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

      2. sqrt-unprod 99.6%

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

      3. inv-pow 99.6%

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

      4. inv-pow 99.6%

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

      5. pow-prod-up 99.6%

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

      6. metadata-eval 99.6%

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

   7. Applied egg-rr 99.6%

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

   9. Applied egg-rr 52.6%

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

   10. Taylor expanded in x around inf 99.1%

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

       1. unpow1/2 99.1%

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

       2. unpow-1 99.1%

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

       3. exp-to-pow 91.7%

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

       4. *-commutative 91.7%

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

       5. neg-mul-1 91.7%

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

       6. exp-prod 91.7%

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

       7. distribute-lft-neg-out 91.7%

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

       8. distribute-rgt-neg-in 91.7%

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

       9. metadata-eval 91.7%

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

       10. exp-to-pow 99.2%

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

   12. Simplified 99.2%

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

   if 2.00000000000000016e-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 99.1%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\sqrt{1 + x} - \sqrt{x} \leq 2 \cdot 10^{-5}:\\ \;\;\;\;0.5 \cdot {x}^{-0.5}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\sqrt{1 + x} - \sqrt{x}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 3: 98.8% accurate, 1.8× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;x \leq 1.25:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(1 + x \cdot \left(0.5 + x \cdot -0.125\right)\right) - \sqrt{x}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;0.5 \cdot {x}^{-0.5}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (x)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= x 1.25)
   (- (+ 1.0 (* x (+ 0.5 (* x -0.125)))) (sqrt x))
   (* 0.5 (pow x -0.5))))

C

double code(double x) {
	double tmp;
	if (x <= 1.25) {
		tmp = (1.0 + (x * (0.5 + (x * -0.125)))) - 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 <= 1.25d0) then
        tmp = (1.0d0 + (x * (0.5d0 + (x * (-0.125d0))))) - 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 <= 1.25) {
		tmp = (1.0 + (x * (0.5 + (x * -0.125)))) - Math.sqrt(x);
	} else {
		tmp = 0.5 * Math.pow(x, -0.5);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(x):
	tmp = 0
	if x <= 1.25:
		tmp = (1.0 + (x * (0.5 + (x * -0.125)))) - math.sqrt(x)
	else:
		tmp = 0.5 * math.pow(x, -0.5)
	return tmp

Julia

function code(x)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (x <= 1.25)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(1.0 + Float64(x * Float64(0.5 + Float64(x * -0.125)))) - 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 <= 1.25)
		tmp = (1.0 + (x * (0.5 + (x * -0.125)))) - sqrt(x);
	else
		tmp = 0.5 * (x ^ -0.5);
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[x_] := If[LessEqual[x, 1.25], N[(N[(1.0 + N[(x * N[(0.5 + N[(x * -0.125), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $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 < 1.25

   1. Initial program 99.9%

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

   2. Taylor expanded in x around 0 99.4%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(1 + \left(-0.125 \cdot {x}^{2} + 0.5 \cdot x\right)\right)} - \sqrt{x} \]
   3. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative 99.4%

         \[\leadsto \left(1 + \color{blue}{\left(0.5 \cdot x + -0.125 \cdot {x}^{2}\right)}\right) - \sqrt{x} \]

      2. unpow2 99.4%

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

      3. associate-*r* 99.4%

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

      4. distribute-rgt-out 99.4%

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

      5. *-commutative 99.4%

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

   4. Simplified 99.4%

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

   if 1.25 < x

   1. Initial program 8.6%

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

      1. flip-- 9.8%

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

      2. div-inv 9.8%

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

      3. add-sqr-sqrt 10.1%

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

      4. add-sqr-sqrt 11.7%

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

      5. associate--l+ 11.7%

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

   3. Applied egg-rr 11.7%

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

      1. +-commutative 11.7%

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

      2. associate-+l- 99.6%

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

      3. +-inverses 99.6%

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

      4. metadata-eval 99.6%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 99.6%

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

      6. metadata-eval 99.6%

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

      7. +-commutative 99.6%

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

   5. Simplified 99.6%

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

      1. add-sqr-sqrt 99.2%

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

      2. sqrt-unprod 99.6%

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

      3. inv-pow 99.6%

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

      4. inv-pow 99.6%

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

      5. pow-prod-up 99.6%

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

      6. metadata-eval 99.6%

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

   7. Applied egg-rr 99.6%

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

   9. Applied egg-rr 54.7%

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

   10. Taylor expanded in x around inf 96.7%

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

       1. unpow1/2 96.7%

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

       2. unpow-1 96.7%

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

       3. exp-to-pow 89.7%

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

       4. *-commutative 89.7%

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

       5. neg-mul-1 89.7%

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

       6. exp-prod 89.7%

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

       7. distribute-lft-neg-out 89.7%

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

       8. distribute-rgt-neg-in 89.7%

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

       9. metadata-eval 89.7%

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

       10. exp-to-pow 96.8%

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

   12. Simplified 96.8%

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

4. Final simplification 98.0%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;x \leq 1.25:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(1 + x \cdot \left(0.5 + x \cdot -0.125\right)\right) - \sqrt{x}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;0.5 \cdot {x}^{-0.5}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 4: 98.7% 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 98.9%

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

      1. associate--l+ 98.9%

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

      2. +-commutative 98.9%

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

      3. *-commutative 98.9%

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

   4. Applied egg-rr 98.9%

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

   if 1 < x

   1. Initial program 8.6%

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

      1. flip-- 9.8%

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

      2. div-inv 9.8%

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

      3. add-sqr-sqrt 10.1%

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

      4. add-sqr-sqrt 11.7%

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

      5. associate--l+ 11.7%

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

   3. Applied egg-rr 11.7%

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

      1. +-commutative 11.7%

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

      2. associate-+l- 99.6%

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

      3. +-inverses 99.6%

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

      4. metadata-eval 99.6%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 99.6%

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

      6. metadata-eval 99.6%

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

      7. +-commutative 99.6%

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

   5. Simplified 99.6%

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

      1. add-sqr-sqrt 99.2%

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

      2. sqrt-unprod 99.6%

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

      3. inv-pow 99.6%

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

      4. inv-pow 99.6%

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

      5. pow-prod-up 99.6%

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

      6. metadata-eval 99.6%

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

   7. Applied egg-rr 99.6%

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

   9. Applied egg-rr 54.7%

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

   10. Taylor expanded in x around inf 96.7%

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

       1. unpow1/2 96.7%

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

       2. unpow-1 96.7%

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

       3. exp-to-pow 89.7%

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

       4. *-commutative 89.7%

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

       5. neg-mul-1 89.7%

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

       6. exp-prod 89.7%

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

       7. distribute-lft-neg-out 89.7%

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

       8. distribute-rgt-neg-in 89.7%

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

       9. metadata-eval 89.7%

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

       10. exp-to-pow 96.8%

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

   12. Simplified 96.8%

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

4. Final simplification 97.8%

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

Alternative 5: 97.0% accurate, 1.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;x \leq 1.85:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{1 + {x}^{1.5}}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;0.5 \cdot {x}^{-0.5}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (x)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= x 1.85) (/ 1.0 (+ 1.0 (pow x 1.5))) (* 0.5 (pow x -0.5))))

C

double code(double x) {
	double tmp;
	if (x <= 1.85) {
		tmp = 1.0 / (1.0 + pow(x, 1.5));
	} 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 <= 1.85d0) then
        tmp = 1.0d0 / (1.0d0 + (x ** 1.5d0))
    else
        tmp = 0.5d0 * (x ** (-0.5d0))
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double x) {
	double tmp;
	if (x <= 1.85) {
		tmp = 1.0 / (1.0 + Math.pow(x, 1.5));
	} else {
		tmp = 0.5 * Math.pow(x, -0.5);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(x):
	tmp = 0
	if x <= 1.85:
		tmp = 1.0 / (1.0 + math.pow(x, 1.5))
	else:
		tmp = 0.5 * math.pow(x, -0.5)
	return tmp

Julia

function code(x)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (x <= 1.85)
		tmp = Float64(1.0 / Float64(1.0 + (x ^ 1.5)));
	else
		tmp = Float64(0.5 * (x ^ -0.5));
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(x)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (x <= 1.85)
		tmp = 1.0 / (1.0 + (x ^ 1.5));
	else
		tmp = 0.5 * (x ^ -0.5);
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[x_] := If[LessEqual[x, 1.85], N[(1.0 / N[(1.0 + N[Power[x, 1.5], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(0.5 * N[Power[x, -0.5], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if x < 1.8500000000000001

   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%

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

      5. associate--l+ 99.9%

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

   3. Applied egg-rr 99.9%

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

      1. +-commutative 99.9%

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

      2. associate-+l- 99.9%

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

      3. +-inverses 99.9%

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

      4. metadata-eval 99.9%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 99.9%

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

      6. metadata-eval 99.9%

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

      7. +-commutative 99.9%

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

   5. Simplified 99.9%

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

      1. flip3-+ 99.9%

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

      2. sqrt-pow2 99.8%

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

      3. metadata-eval 99.8%

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

      4. sqrt-pow2 99.8%

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

      5. metadata-eval 99.8%

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

      6. add-sqr-sqrt 99.9%

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

      7. add-sqr-sqrt 99.9%

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

      8. associate-+r- 99.9%

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

      9. sqrt-unprod 99.9%

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

   7. Applied egg-rr 99.9%

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

   8. Taylor expanded in x around 0 95.5%

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{1 + {x}^{1.5}}} \]

   if 1.8500000000000001 < x

   1. Initial program 8.6%

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

      1. flip-- 9.8%

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

      2. div-inv 9.8%

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

      3. add-sqr-sqrt 10.1%

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

      4. add-sqr-sqrt 11.7%

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

      5. associate--l+ 11.7%

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

   3. Applied egg-rr 11.7%

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

      1. +-commutative 11.7%

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

      2. associate-+l- 99.6%

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

      3. +-inverses 99.6%

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

      4. metadata-eval 99.6%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 99.6%

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

      6. metadata-eval 99.6%

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

      7. +-commutative 99.6%

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

   5. Simplified 99.6%

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

      1. add-sqr-sqrt 99.2%

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

      2. sqrt-unprod 99.6%

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

      3. inv-pow 99.6%

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

      4. inv-pow 99.6%

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

      5. pow-prod-up 99.6%

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

      6. metadata-eval 99.6%

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

   7. Applied egg-rr 99.6%

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

   9. Applied egg-rr 54.7%

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

   10. Taylor expanded in x around inf 96.7%

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

       1. unpow1/2 96.7%

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

       2. unpow-1 96.7%

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

       3. exp-to-pow 89.7%

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

       4. *-commutative 89.7%

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

       5. neg-mul-1 89.7%

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

       6. exp-prod 89.7%

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

       7. distribute-lft-neg-out 89.7%

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

       8. distribute-rgt-neg-in 89.7%

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

       9. metadata-eval 89.7%

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

       10. exp-to-pow 96.8%

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

   12. Simplified 96.8%

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

4. Final simplification 96.2%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;x \leq 1.85:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{1 + {x}^{1.5}}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;0.5 \cdot {x}^{-0.5}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 6: 97.0% 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 95.5%

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

   if 0.25 < x

   1. Initial program 8.6%

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

      1. flip-- 9.8%

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

      2. div-inv 9.8%

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

      3. add-sqr-sqrt 10.1%

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

      4. add-sqr-sqrt 11.7%

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

      5. associate--l+ 11.7%

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

   3. Applied egg-rr 11.7%

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

      1. +-commutative 11.7%

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

      2. associate-+l- 99.6%

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

      3. +-inverses 99.6%

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

      4. metadata-eval 99.6%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 99.6%

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

      6. metadata-eval 99.6%

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

      7. +-commutative 99.6%

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

   5. Simplified 99.6%

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

      1. add-sqr-sqrt 99.2%

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

      2. sqrt-unprod 99.6%

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

      3. inv-pow 99.6%

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

      4. inv-pow 99.6%

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

      5. pow-prod-up 99.6%

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

      6. metadata-eval 99.6%

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

   7. Applied egg-rr 99.6%

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

   9. Applied egg-rr 54.7%

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

   10. Taylor expanded in x around inf 96.7%

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

       1. unpow1/2 96.7%

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

       2. unpow-1 96.7%

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

       3. exp-to-pow 89.7%

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

       4. *-commutative 89.7%

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

       5. neg-mul-1 89.7%

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

       6. exp-prod 89.7%

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

       7. distribute-lft-neg-out 89.7%

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

       8. distribute-rgt-neg-in 89.7%

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

       9. metadata-eval 89.7%

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

       10. exp-to-pow 96.8%

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

   12. Simplified 96.8%

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

4. Final simplification 96.2%

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

Alternative 7: 52.0% 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 51.8%

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

2. Taylor expanded in x around 0 48.8%

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

3. Final simplification 48.8%

   \[\leadsto 1 \]

Developer target: 99.6% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;x \leq 66000000:\\ \;\;\;\;\sqrt{1 + x} - \sqrt{x}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{\sqrt{x + 1} + \sqrt{x}}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (x)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= x 66000000.0)
   (- (sqrt (+ 1.0 x)) (sqrt x))
   (/ 1.0 (+ (sqrt (+ x 1.0)) (sqrt x)))))

C

double code(double x) {
	double tmp;
	if (x <= 66000000.0) {
		tmp = sqrt((1.0 + x)) - sqrt(x);
	} else {
		tmp = 1.0 / (sqrt((x + 1.0)) + sqrt(x));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(x)
    real(8), intent (in) :: x
    real(8) :: tmp
    if (x <= 66000000.0d0) then
        tmp = sqrt((1.0d0 + x)) - sqrt(x)
    else
        tmp = 1.0d0 / (sqrt((x + 1.0d0)) + sqrt(x))
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double x) {
	double tmp;
	if (x <= 66000000.0) {
		tmp = Math.sqrt((1.0 + x)) - Math.sqrt(x);
	} else {
		tmp = 1.0 / (Math.sqrt((x + 1.0)) + Math.sqrt(x));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(x):
	tmp = 0
	if x <= 66000000.0:
		tmp = math.sqrt((1.0 + x)) - math.sqrt(x)
	else:
		tmp = 1.0 / (math.sqrt((x + 1.0)) + math.sqrt(x))
	return tmp

Julia

function code(x)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (x <= 66000000.0)
		tmp = Float64(sqrt(Float64(1.0 + x)) - sqrt(x));
	else
		tmp = Float64(1.0 / Float64(sqrt(Float64(x + 1.0)) + sqrt(x)));
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(x)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (x <= 66000000.0)
		tmp = sqrt((1.0 + x)) - sqrt(x);
	else
		tmp = 1.0 / (sqrt((x + 1.0)) + sqrt(x));
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[x_] := If[LessEqual[x, 66000000.0], N[(N[Sqrt[N[(1.0 + x), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - N[Sqrt[x], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(1.0 / N[(N[Sqrt[N[(x + 1.0), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] + N[Sqrt[x], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2023326 
(FPCore (x)
  :name "2sqrt (example 3.1)"
  :precision binary64

  :herbie-target
  (if (<= x 66000000.0) (- (sqrt (+ 1.0 x)) (sqrt x)) (/ 1.0 (+ (sqrt (+ x 1.0)) (sqrt x))))

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