Average Error: 16.4 → 3.7
Time: 1.4m
Precision: 64
Internal Precision: 2112
\[\cos^{-1} \left(\sin \phi_1 \cdot \sin \phi_2 + \left(\cos \phi_1 \cdot \cos \phi_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)\right) \cdot R\]
\[\cos^{-1} \left((\left((\left(\cos \lambda_2\right) \cdot \left(\cos \lambda_1\right) + \left(\sin \lambda_2 \cdot \sin \lambda_1\right))_*\right) \cdot \left(\cos \phi_1 \cdot \cos \phi_2\right) + \left(\log \left(e^{\sin \phi_2 \cdot \sin \phi_1}\right)\right))_*\right) \cdot R\]

Error

Bits error versus R

Bits error versus lambda1

Bits error versus lambda2

Bits error versus phi1

Bits error versus phi2

Derivation

  1. Initial program 16.4

    \[\cos^{-1} \left(\sin \phi_1 \cdot \sin \phi_2 + \left(\cos \phi_1 \cdot \cos \phi_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)\right) \cdot R\]
  2. Using strategy rm
  3. Applied cos-diff3.7

    \[\leadsto \cos^{-1} \left(\sin \phi_1 \cdot \sin \phi_2 + \left(\cos \phi_1 \cdot \cos \phi_2\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\cos \lambda_1 \cdot \cos \lambda_2 + \sin \lambda_1 \cdot \sin \lambda_2\right)}\right) \cdot R\]
  4. Taylor expanded around inf 3.7

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\cos^{-1} \left(\cos \phi_1 \cdot \left(\cos \phi_2 \cdot \left(\cos \lambda_1 \cdot \cos \lambda_2\right)\right) + \left(\cos \phi_1 \cdot \left(\cos \phi_2 \cdot \left(\sin \lambda_2 \cdot \sin \lambda_1\right)\right) + \sin \phi_1 \cdot \sin \phi_2\right)\right) \cdot R}\]
  5. Simplified3.7

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\cos^{-1} \left((\left((\left(\cos \lambda_2\right) \cdot \left(\cos \lambda_1\right) + \left(\sin \lambda_2 \cdot \sin \lambda_1\right))_*\right) \cdot \left(\cos \phi_2 \cdot \cos \phi_1\right) + \left(\sin \phi_1 \cdot \sin \phi_2\right))_*\right) \cdot R}\]
  6. Using strategy rm
  7. Applied add-log-exp3.7

    \[\leadsto \cos^{-1} \left((\left((\left(\cos \lambda_2\right) \cdot \left(\cos \lambda_1\right) + \left(\sin \lambda_2 \cdot \sin \lambda_1\right))_*\right) \cdot \left(\cos \phi_2 \cdot \cos \phi_1\right) + \color{blue}{\left(\log \left(e^{\sin \phi_1 \cdot \sin \phi_2}\right)\right)})_*\right) \cdot R\]
  8. Final simplification3.7

    \[\leadsto \cos^{-1} \left((\left((\left(\cos \lambda_2\right) \cdot \left(\cos \lambda_1\right) + \left(\sin \lambda_2 \cdot \sin \lambda_1\right))_*\right) \cdot \left(\cos \phi_1 \cdot \cos \phi_2\right) + \left(\log \left(e^{\sin \phi_2 \cdot \sin \phi_1}\right)\right))_*\right) \cdot R\]

Runtime

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herbie shell --seed 2018235 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (R lambda1 lambda2 phi1 phi2)
  :name "Spherical law of cosines"
  (* (acos (+ (* (sin phi1) (sin phi2)) (* (* (cos phi1) (cos phi2)) (cos (- lambda1 lambda2))))) R))