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Therefore, an improved reptile search algorithm based on a mathematical optimization accelerator (MOA) and elementary functions is proposed to improve its search efficiency and make it not easily fall into local optimum. MOA was used to realize the switching of RSA\u2019s four searching modes by introducing random perturbations of six elementary functions (sine function, cosine function, tangent function, arccosine function, hyperbolic secant function and hyperbolic cosecant function), four mechanisms are distinguished by random number instead of the original RSA algorithm\u2019s inherent four mechanisms by iteration number, which increases the randomness of the algorithm and avoids falling into local optimum. The random perturbations generated by elementary functions are added to the variation trend of parameter MOA to improve the optimization accuracy of the algorithm. 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