Average Error: 37.5 → 25.8
Time: 6.3m
Precision: 64
Internal Precision: 1408
\[R \cdot \sqrt{\left(\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{\phi_1 + \phi_2}{2}\right)\right) \cdot \left(\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{\phi_1 + \phi_2}{2}\right)\right) + \left(\phi_1 - \phi_2\right) \cdot \left(\phi_1 - \phi_2\right)}\]
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\[\begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\phi_2 - \phi_1 \le -3.736997339669487 \cdot 10^{+172}:\\ \;\;\;\;R \cdot \left(\left(\phi_1 + \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{e^{\log \left({\left(\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \left(\phi_1 + \phi_2\right)\right)\right)}^{2}\right) - 2 \cdot \log \left(\frac{1}{\lambda_1}\right)} \cdot \phi_2}{{\phi_1}^{2}}\right) - \phi_2\right)\\ \mathbf{if}\;\phi_2 - \phi_1 \le 8.19008264689614 \cdot 10^{+131}:\\ \;\;\;\;R \cdot \sqrt{\left(\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{\phi_1 + \phi_2}{2}\right)\right) \cdot \left(\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \sqrt[3]{{\left(\cos \left(\frac{\phi_2 + \phi_1}{2}\right)\right)}^{3}}\right) + \left(\phi_1 - \phi_2\right) \cdot \left(\phi_1 - \phi_2\right)}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;R \cdot \left(\phi_2 - \phi_1\right)\\ \end{array}\]

Error

Bits error versus R

Bits error versus lambda1

Bits error versus lambda2

Bits error versus phi1

Bits error versus phi2

Derivation

  1. Split input into 3 regimes

  2. if (- phi2 phi1) < -3.736997339669487e+172

    1. Initial program 60.8

      \[R \cdot \sqrt{\left(\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{\phi_1 + \phi_2}{2}\right)\right) \cdot \left(\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{\phi_1 + \phi_2}{2}\right)\right) + \left(\phi_1 - \phi_2\right) \cdot \left(\phi_1 - \phi_2\right)}\]
    2. Using strategy rm

    3. Applied add-exp-log60.8

      \[\leadsto R \cdot \sqrt{\color{blue}{e^{\log \left(\left(\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{\phi_1 + \phi_2}{2}\right)\right) \cdot \left(\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{\phi_1 + \phi_2}{2}\right)\right)\right)}} + \left(\phi_1 - \phi_2\right) \cdot \left(\phi_1 - \phi_2\right)}\]

    4. Taylor expanded around inf 47.0

      \[\leadsto R \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(\phi_1 + \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{e^{\log \left({\left(\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \left(\phi_1 + \phi_2\right)\right)\right)}^{2}\right) - 2 \cdot \log \left(\frac{1}{\lambda_1}\right)} \cdot \phi_2}{{\phi_1}^{2}}\right) - \phi_2\right)}\]

    if -3.736997339669487e+172 < (- phi2 phi1) < 8.19008264689614e+131

    1. Initial program 24.4

      \[R \cdot \sqrt{\left(\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{\phi_1 + \phi_2}{2}\right)\right) \cdot \left(\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{\phi_1 + \phi_2}{2}\right)\right) + \left(\phi_1 - \phi_2\right) \cdot \left(\phi_1 - \phi_2\right)}\]
    2. Using strategy rm

    3. Applied add-cbrt-cube24.5

      \[\leadsto R \cdot \sqrt{\left(\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{\phi_1 + \phi_2}{2}\right)\right) \cdot \left(\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\sqrt[3]{\left(\cos \left(\frac{\phi_1 + \phi_2}{2}\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{\phi_1 + \phi_2}{2}\right)\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{\phi_1 + \phi_2}{2}\right)}}\right) + \left(\phi_1 - \phi_2\right) \cdot \left(\phi_1 - \phi_2\right)}\]

    4. Applied simplify24.5

      \[\leadsto R \cdot \sqrt{\left(\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{\phi_1 + \phi_2}{2}\right)\right) \cdot \left(\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \sqrt[3]{\color{blue}{{\left(\cos \left(\frac{\phi_2 + \phi_1}{2}\right)\right)}^{3}}}\right) + \left(\phi_1 - \phi_2\right) \cdot \left(\phi_1 - \phi_2\right)}\]

    if 8.19008264689614e+131 < (- phi2 phi1)

    1. Initial program 56.5

      \[R \cdot \sqrt{\left(\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{\phi_1 + \phi_2}{2}\right)\right) \cdot \left(\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{\phi_1 + \phi_2}{2}\right)\right) + \left(\phi_1 - \phi_2\right) \cdot \left(\phi_1 - \phi_2\right)}\]

    2. Taylor expanded around 0 13.9

      \[\leadsto R \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\phi_2 - \phi_1\right)}\]
  3. Recombined 3 regimes into one program.

Runtime

Time bar (total: 6.3m)Debug logProfile

herbie shell --seed '#(1070386091 2509006183 1430610344 1025408621 36622005 1425925650)' 
(FPCore (R lambda1 lambda2 phi1 phi2)
  :name "Equirectangular approximation to distance on a great circle"
  (* R (sqrt (+ (* (* (- lambda1 lambda2) (cos (/ (+ phi1 phi2) 2))) (* (- lambda1 lambda2) (cos (/ (+ phi1 phi2) 2)))) (* (- phi1 phi2) (- phi1 phi2))))))