Migdal et al, Equation (51)

Percentage Accurate: 99.4% → 99.4%
Time: 9.4s
Alternatives: 7
Speedup: 1.1×

Specification

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\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(\frac{1 - k}{2}\right)} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (k n)
 :precision binary64
 (* (/ 1.0 (sqrt k)) (pow (* (* 2.0 (PI)) n) (/ (- 1.0 k) 2.0))))
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(\frac{1 - k}{2}\right)}
\end{array}

Sampling outcomes in binary64 precision:

Local Percentage Accuracy vs ?

The average percentage accuracy by input value. Horizontal axis shows value of an input variable; the variable is choosen in the title. Vertical axis is accuracy; higher is better. Red represent the original program, while blue represents Herbie's suggestion. These can be toggled with buttons below the plot. The line is an average while dots represent individual samples.

Accuracy vs Speed?

Herbie found 7 alternatives:

AlternativeAccuracySpeedup
The accuracy (vertical axis) and speed (horizontal axis) of each alternatives. Up and to the right is better. The red square shows the initial program, and each blue circle shows an alternative.The line shows the best available speed-accuracy tradeoffs.

Initial Program: 99.4% accurate, 1.0× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(\frac{1 - k}{2}\right)} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (k n)
 :precision binary64
 (* (/ 1.0 (sqrt k)) (pow (* (* 2.0 (PI)) n) (/ (- 1.0 k) 2.0))))
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(\frac{1 - k}{2}\right)}
\end{array}

Alternative 1: 99.4% accurate, 0.9× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := \sqrt{\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n}\\ \frac{t\_0}{\sqrt{k} \cdot {t\_0}^{k}} \end{array} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (k n)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0 (sqrt (* (* 2.0 (PI)) n)))) (/ t_0 (* (sqrt k) (pow t_0 k)))))
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\begin{array}{l}
t_0 := \sqrt{\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n}\\
\frac{t\_0}{\sqrt{k} \cdot {t\_0}^{k}}
\end{array}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 99.5%

    \[\frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(\frac{1 - k}{2}\right)} \]
  2. Add Preprocessing
  3. Step-by-step derivation
    1. lift-pow.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot \color{blue}{{\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(\frac{1 - k}{2}\right)}} \]
    2. lift-/.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\color{blue}{\left(\frac{1 - k}{2}\right)}} \]
    3. lift--.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(\frac{\color{blue}{1 - k}}{2}\right)} \]
    4. div-subN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{2} - \frac{k}{2}\right)}} \]
    5. metadata-evalN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(\color{blue}{\frac{1}{2}} - \frac{k}{2}\right)} \]
    6. sub-negN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{2} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{k}{2}\right)\right)\right)}} \]
    7. +-commutativeN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\color{blue}{\left(\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{k}{2}\right)\right) + \frac{1}{2}\right)}} \]
    8. unpow-prod-upN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot \color{blue}{\left({\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{k}{2}\right)\right)} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\frac{1}{2}}\right)} \]
    9. lower-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot \color{blue}{\left({\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{k}{2}\right)\right)} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\frac{1}{2}}\right)} \]
  4. Applied rewrites99.6%

    \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot \color{blue}{\left({\left(n \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot 2\right)\right)}^{\left(k \cdot -0.5\right)} \cdot \sqrt{n \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot 2\right)}\right)} \]
  5. Step-by-step derivation
    1. lift-PI.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot \left({\left(n \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot 2\right)\right)}^{\left(k \cdot \frac{-1}{2}\right)} \cdot \sqrt{n \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)} \cdot 2\right)}\right) \]
    2. add-sqr-sqrtN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot \left({\left(n \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot 2\right)\right)}^{\left(k \cdot \frac{-1}{2}\right)} \cdot \sqrt{n \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)} \cdot \sqrt{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}\right)} \cdot 2\right)}\right) \]
    3. lower-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot \left({\left(n \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot 2\right)\right)}^{\left(k \cdot \frac{-1}{2}\right)} \cdot \sqrt{n \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)} \cdot \sqrt{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}\right)} \cdot 2\right)}\right) \]
    4. lift-PI.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot \left({\left(n \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot 2\right)\right)}^{\left(k \cdot \frac{-1}{2}\right)} \cdot \sqrt{n \cdot \left(\left(\sqrt{\color{blue}{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}} \cdot \sqrt{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}\right) \cdot 2\right)}\right) \]
    5. lower-sqrt.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot \left({\left(n \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot 2\right)\right)}^{\left(k \cdot \frac{-1}{2}\right)} \cdot \sqrt{n \cdot \left(\left(\color{blue}{\sqrt{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}} \cdot \sqrt{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}\right) \cdot 2\right)}\right) \]
    6. lift-PI.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot \left({\left(n \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot 2\right)\right)}^{\left(k \cdot \frac{-1}{2}\right)} \cdot \sqrt{n \cdot \left(\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)} \cdot \sqrt{\color{blue}{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}}\right) \cdot 2\right)}\right) \]
    7. lower-sqrt.f6499.5

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot \left({\left(n \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot 2\right)\right)}^{\left(k \cdot -0.5\right)} \cdot \sqrt{n \cdot \left(\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)} \cdot \color{blue}{\sqrt{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}}\right) \cdot 2\right)}\right) \]
  6. Applied rewrites99.5%

    \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot \left({\left(n \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot 2\right)\right)}^{\left(k \cdot -0.5\right)} \cdot \sqrt{n \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)} \cdot \sqrt{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}\right)} \cdot 2\right)}\right) \]
  7. Applied rewrites99.7%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\sqrt{\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n}}{\sqrt{k} \cdot {\left(\sqrt{\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n}\right)}^{k}}} \]
  8. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 2: 99.4% accurate, 0.6× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := n \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot 2\right)\\ {\left(\sqrt{k}\right)}^{-1} \cdot \left({t\_0}^{\left(k \cdot -0.5\right)} \cdot \sqrt{t\_0}\right) \end{array} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (k n)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0 (* n (* (PI) 2.0))))
   (* (pow (sqrt k) -1.0) (* (pow t_0 (* k -0.5)) (sqrt t_0)))))
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\begin{array}{l}
t_0 := n \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot 2\right)\\
{\left(\sqrt{k}\right)}^{-1} \cdot \left({t\_0}^{\left(k \cdot -0.5\right)} \cdot \sqrt{t\_0}\right)
\end{array}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 99.5%

    \[\frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(\frac{1 - k}{2}\right)} \]
  2. Add Preprocessing
  3. Step-by-step derivation
    1. lift-pow.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot \color{blue}{{\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(\frac{1 - k}{2}\right)}} \]
    2. lift-/.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\color{blue}{\left(\frac{1 - k}{2}\right)}} \]
    3. lift--.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(\frac{\color{blue}{1 - k}}{2}\right)} \]
    4. div-subN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{2} - \frac{k}{2}\right)}} \]
    5. metadata-evalN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(\color{blue}{\frac{1}{2}} - \frac{k}{2}\right)} \]
    6. sub-negN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{2} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{k}{2}\right)\right)\right)}} \]
    7. +-commutativeN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\color{blue}{\left(\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{k}{2}\right)\right) + \frac{1}{2}\right)}} \]
    8. unpow-prod-upN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot \color{blue}{\left({\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{k}{2}\right)\right)} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\frac{1}{2}}\right)} \]
    9. lower-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot \color{blue}{\left({\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{k}{2}\right)\right)} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\frac{1}{2}}\right)} \]
  4. Applied rewrites99.6%

    \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot \color{blue}{\left({\left(n \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot 2\right)\right)}^{\left(k \cdot -0.5\right)} \cdot \sqrt{n \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot 2\right)}\right)} \]
  5. Final simplification99.6%

    \[\leadsto {\left(\sqrt{k}\right)}^{-1} \cdot \left({\left(n \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot 2\right)\right)}^{\left(k \cdot -0.5\right)} \cdot \sqrt{n \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot 2\right)}\right) \]
  6. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 3: 98.0% accurate, 1.1× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;k \leq 1:\\ \;\;\;\;\sqrt{n \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{2}{k}}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{{\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(-0.5 \cdot k\right)}}{\sqrt{k}}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (k n)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= k 1.0)
   (* (sqrt (* n (PI))) (sqrt (/ 2.0 k)))
   (/ (pow (* (* 2.0 (PI)) n) (* -0.5 k)) (sqrt k))))
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\begin{array}{l}
\mathbf{if}\;k \leq 1:\\
\;\;\;\;\sqrt{n \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{2}{k}}\\

\mathbf{else}:\\
\;\;\;\;\frac{{\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(-0.5 \cdot k\right)}}{\sqrt{k}}\\


\end{array}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Split input into 2 regimes
  2. if k < 1

    1. Initial program 99.0%

      \[\frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(\frac{1 - k}{2}\right)} \]
    2. Add Preprocessing
    3. Taylor expanded in k around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{\frac{n \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{k}} \cdot \sqrt{2}} \]
    4. Step-by-step derivation
      1. *-commutativeN/A

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{2} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{n \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{k}}} \]
      2. lower-*.f64N/A

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{2} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{n \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{k}}} \]
      3. lower-sqrt.f64N/A

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{2}} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{n \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{k}} \]
      4. lower-sqrt.f64N/A

        \[\leadsto \sqrt{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\sqrt{\frac{n \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{k}}} \]
      5. lower-/.f64N/A

        \[\leadsto \sqrt{2} \cdot \sqrt{\color{blue}{\frac{n \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{k}}} \]
      6. *-commutativeN/A

        \[\leadsto \sqrt{2} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot n}}{k}} \]
      7. lower-*.f64N/A

        \[\leadsto \sqrt{2} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot n}}{k}} \]
      8. lower-PI.f6469.0

        \[\leadsto \sqrt{2} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)} \cdot n}{k}} \]
    5. Applied rewrites69.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{2} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot n}{k}}} \]
    6. Step-by-step derivation
      1. Applied rewrites69.3%

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot n}{k} \cdot 2}} \]
      2. Step-by-step derivation
        1. Applied rewrites97.3%

          \[\leadsto \sqrt{n \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)} \cdot \color{blue}{\sqrt{\frac{2}{k}}} \]

        if 1 < k

        1. Initial program 100.0%

          \[\frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(\frac{1 - k}{2}\right)} \]
        2. Add Preprocessing
        3. Taylor expanded in k around inf

          \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\color{blue}{\left(\frac{-1}{2} \cdot k\right)}} \]
        4. Step-by-step derivation
          1. lower-*.f6499.2

            \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\color{blue}{\left(-0.5 \cdot k\right)}} \]
        5. Applied rewrites99.2%

          \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\color{blue}{\left(-0.5 \cdot k\right)}} \]
        6. Step-by-step derivation
          1. lift-*.f64N/A

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(\frac{-1}{2} \cdot k\right)}} \]
          2. *-commutativeN/A

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(\frac{-1}{2} \cdot k\right)} \cdot \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}}} \]
          3. lift-/.f64N/A

            \[\leadsto {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(\frac{-1}{2} \cdot k\right)} \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{1}{\sqrt{k}}} \]
          4. un-div-invN/A

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{{\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(\frac{-1}{2} \cdot k\right)}}{\sqrt{k}}} \]
          5. lower-/.f6499.2

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{{\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(-0.5 \cdot k\right)}}{\sqrt{k}}} \]
        7. Applied rewrites99.2%

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{{\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(-0.5 \cdot k\right)}}{\sqrt{k}}} \]
      3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
      4. Add Preprocessing

      Alternative 4: 99.5% accurate, 1.1× speedup?

      \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{{\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, k, 0.5\right)\right)}}{\sqrt{k}} \end{array} \]
      (FPCore (k n)
       :precision binary64
       (/ (pow (* (* 2.0 (PI)) n) (fma -0.5 k 0.5)) (sqrt k)))
      \begin{array}{l}
      
      \\
      \frac{{\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, k, 0.5\right)\right)}}{\sqrt{k}}
      \end{array}
      
      Derivation
      1. Initial program 99.5%

        \[\frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(\frac{1 - k}{2}\right)} \]
      2. Add Preprocessing
      3. Step-by-step derivation
        1. lift-pow.f64N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot \color{blue}{{\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(\frac{1 - k}{2}\right)}} \]
        2. lift-/.f64N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\color{blue}{\left(\frac{1 - k}{2}\right)}} \]
        3. lift--.f64N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(\frac{\color{blue}{1 - k}}{2}\right)} \]
        4. div-subN/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{2} - \frac{k}{2}\right)}} \]
        5. metadata-evalN/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(\color{blue}{\frac{1}{2}} - \frac{k}{2}\right)} \]
        6. sub-negN/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{2} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{k}{2}\right)\right)\right)}} \]
        7. +-commutativeN/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\color{blue}{\left(\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{k}{2}\right)\right) + \frac{1}{2}\right)}} \]
        8. unpow-prod-upN/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot \color{blue}{\left({\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{k}{2}\right)\right)} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\frac{1}{2}}\right)} \]
        9. lower-*.f64N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot \color{blue}{\left({\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{k}{2}\right)\right)} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\frac{1}{2}}\right)} \]
      4. Applied rewrites99.6%

        \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot \color{blue}{\left({\left(n \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot 2\right)\right)}^{\left(k \cdot -0.5\right)} \cdot \sqrt{n \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot 2\right)}\right)} \]
      5. Step-by-step derivation
        1. lift-*.f64N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot \left({\left(n \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot 2\right)\right)}^{\left(k \cdot \frac{-1}{2}\right)} \cdot \sqrt{n \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot 2\right)}\right)} \]
        2. *-commutativeN/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left({\left(n \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot 2\right)\right)}^{\left(k \cdot \frac{-1}{2}\right)} \cdot \sqrt{n \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot 2\right)}\right) \cdot \frac{1}{\sqrt{k}}} \]
        3. lift-/.f64N/A

          \[\leadsto \left({\left(n \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot 2\right)\right)}^{\left(k \cdot \frac{-1}{2}\right)} \cdot \sqrt{n \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot 2\right)}\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{1}{\sqrt{k}}} \]
        4. un-div-invN/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{{\left(n \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot 2\right)\right)}^{\left(k \cdot \frac{-1}{2}\right)} \cdot \sqrt{n \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot 2\right)}}{\sqrt{k}}} \]
        5. lower-/.f6499.7

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{{\left(n \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot 2\right)\right)}^{\left(k \cdot -0.5\right)} \cdot \sqrt{n \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot 2\right)}}{\sqrt{k}}} \]
      6. Applied rewrites99.5%

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{{\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, k, 0.5\right)\right)}}{\sqrt{k}}} \]
      7. Add Preprocessing

      Alternative 5: 49.0% accurate, 3.6× speedup?

      \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \sqrt{n \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{2}{k}} \end{array} \]
      (FPCore (k n) :precision binary64 (* (sqrt (* n (PI))) (sqrt (/ 2.0 k))))
      \begin{array}{l}
      
      \\
      \sqrt{n \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{2}{k}}
      \end{array}
      
      Derivation
      1. Initial program 99.5%

        \[\frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(\frac{1 - k}{2}\right)} \]
      2. Add Preprocessing
      3. Taylor expanded in k around 0

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{\frac{n \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{k}} \cdot \sqrt{2}} \]
      4. Step-by-step derivation
        1. *-commutativeN/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{2} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{n \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{k}}} \]
        2. lower-*.f64N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{2} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{n \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{k}}} \]
        3. lower-sqrt.f64N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{2}} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{n \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{k}} \]
        4. lower-sqrt.f64N/A

          \[\leadsto \sqrt{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\sqrt{\frac{n \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{k}}} \]
        5. lower-/.f64N/A

          \[\leadsto \sqrt{2} \cdot \sqrt{\color{blue}{\frac{n \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{k}}} \]
        6. *-commutativeN/A

          \[\leadsto \sqrt{2} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot n}}{k}} \]
        7. lower-*.f64N/A

          \[\leadsto \sqrt{2} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot n}}{k}} \]
        8. lower-PI.f6437.1

          \[\leadsto \sqrt{2} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)} \cdot n}{k}} \]
      5. Applied rewrites37.1%

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{2} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot n}{k}}} \]
      6. Step-by-step derivation
        1. Applied rewrites37.3%

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot n}{k} \cdot 2}} \]
        2. Step-by-step derivation
          1. Applied rewrites51.8%

            \[\leadsto \sqrt{n \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)} \cdot \color{blue}{\sqrt{\frac{2}{k}}} \]
          2. Add Preprocessing

          Alternative 6: 37.8% accurate, 4.8× speedup?

          \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \sqrt{\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{k} \cdot n\right) \cdot 2} \end{array} \]
          (FPCore (k n) :precision binary64 (sqrt (* (* (/ (PI) k) n) 2.0)))
          \begin{array}{l}
          
          \\
          \sqrt{\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{k} \cdot n\right) \cdot 2}
          \end{array}
          
          Derivation
          1. Initial program 99.5%

            \[\frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(\frac{1 - k}{2}\right)} \]
          2. Add Preprocessing
          3. Taylor expanded in k around 0

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{\frac{n \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{k}} \cdot \sqrt{2}} \]
          4. Step-by-step derivation
            1. *-commutativeN/A

              \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{2} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{n \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{k}}} \]
            2. lower-*.f64N/A

              \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{2} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{n \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{k}}} \]
            3. lower-sqrt.f64N/A

              \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{2}} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{n \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{k}} \]
            4. lower-sqrt.f64N/A

              \[\leadsto \sqrt{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\sqrt{\frac{n \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{k}}} \]
            5. lower-/.f64N/A

              \[\leadsto \sqrt{2} \cdot \sqrt{\color{blue}{\frac{n \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{k}}} \]
            6. *-commutativeN/A

              \[\leadsto \sqrt{2} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot n}}{k}} \]
            7. lower-*.f64N/A

              \[\leadsto \sqrt{2} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot n}}{k}} \]
            8. lower-PI.f6437.1

              \[\leadsto \sqrt{2} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)} \cdot n}{k}} \]
          5. Applied rewrites37.1%

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{2} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot n}{k}}} \]
          6. Step-by-step derivation
            1. Applied rewrites37.3%

              \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot n}{k} \cdot 2}} \]
            2. Step-by-step derivation
              1. Applied rewrites37.3%

                \[\leadsto \sqrt{\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{k} \cdot n\right) \cdot 2} \]
              2. Add Preprocessing

              Alternative 7: 37.8% accurate, 4.8× speedup?

              \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \sqrt{\left(\frac{n}{k} \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot 2} \end{array} \]
              (FPCore (k n) :precision binary64 (sqrt (* (* (/ n k) (PI)) 2.0)))
              \begin{array}{l}
              
              \\
              \sqrt{\left(\frac{n}{k} \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot 2}
              \end{array}
              
              Derivation
              1. Initial program 99.5%

                \[\frac{1}{\sqrt{k}} \cdot {\left(\left(2 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot n\right)}^{\left(\frac{1 - k}{2}\right)} \]
              2. Add Preprocessing
              3. Taylor expanded in k around 0

                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{\frac{n \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{k}} \cdot \sqrt{2}} \]
              4. Step-by-step derivation
                1. *-commutativeN/A

                  \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{2} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{n \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{k}}} \]
                2. lower-*.f64N/A

                  \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{2} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{n \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{k}}} \]
                3. lower-sqrt.f64N/A

                  \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{2}} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{n \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{k}} \]
                4. lower-sqrt.f64N/A

                  \[\leadsto \sqrt{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\sqrt{\frac{n \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{k}}} \]
                5. lower-/.f64N/A

                  \[\leadsto \sqrt{2} \cdot \sqrt{\color{blue}{\frac{n \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{k}}} \]
                6. *-commutativeN/A

                  \[\leadsto \sqrt{2} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot n}}{k}} \]
                7. lower-*.f64N/A

                  \[\leadsto \sqrt{2} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot n}}{k}} \]
                8. lower-PI.f6437.1

                  \[\leadsto \sqrt{2} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)} \cdot n}{k}} \]
              5. Applied rewrites37.1%

                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{2} \cdot \sqrt{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot n}{k}}} \]
              6. Step-by-step derivation
                1. Applied rewrites37.3%

                  \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot n}{k} \cdot 2}} \]
                2. Step-by-step derivation
                  1. Applied rewrites37.3%

                    \[\leadsto \sqrt{\left(\frac{n}{k} \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)\right) \cdot 2} \]
                  2. Add Preprocessing

                  Reproduce

                  ?
                  herbie shell --seed 2024313 
                  (FPCore (k n)
                    :name "Migdal et al, Equation (51)"
                    :precision binary64
                    (* (/ 1.0 (sqrt k)) (pow (* (* 2.0 (PI)) n) (/ (- 1.0 k) 2.0))))