Average Error: 13.5 → 0.0
Time: 6.5s
Precision: 64
Internal Precision: 384
\[\sqrt{\left|\frac{a \cdot a - b \cdot b}{a \cdot a}\right|}\]
↓
\[\sqrt{\left|1 - \frac{b}{a} \cdot \frac{b}{a}\right|}\]

Error

Bits error versus a

Bits error versus b

Derivation

  1. Initial program 13.5

    \[\sqrt{\left|\frac{a \cdot a - b \cdot b}{a \cdot a}\right|}\]

  2. Applied simplify0.0

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{\left|1 - \frac{b}{a} \cdot \frac{b}{a}\right|}}\]

Runtime

Time bar (total: 6.5s)Debug log

herbie shell --seed '#(4187538376 1520029361 2786545844 1568991248 4244367449 2261141537)' 
(FPCore (a b)
  :name "Eccentricity of an ellipse"
  :pre (<= 0 b a 1)
  (sqrt (fabs (/ (- (* a a) (* b b)) (* a a)))))