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Defining intermediate operations

We can indeed reduce the number of operation to half of those listed in the brute force approach above. We define the following quantities

a = x^2,

and

b = \exp{x^2} = \exp{a},

and

c= a+b,

and

d=f(x)=\sqrt{c}.