Average Error: 14.1 → 0.0
Time: 25.8s
Precision: 64
Internal Precision: 320
\[\sqrt{\left|\frac{a \cdot a - b \cdot b}{a \cdot a}\right|}\]
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\[\sqrt{\left|1 - \frac{b}{a} \cdot \frac{b}{a}\right|}\]

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Derivation

  1. Initial program 14.1

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

  2. Applied simplify0.0

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

Runtime

Time bar (total: 25.8s)Debug logProfile

herbie shell --seed '#(1072936661 1621281212 3440817831 3219514234 460296804 1258167384)' 
(FPCore (a b)
  :name "Eccentricity of an ellipse"
  :pre (<= 0 b a 1)
  (sqrt (fabs (/ (- (* a a) (* b b)) (* a a)))))