\[\left(\frac{\pi}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)\]

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\[\frac{\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}}{b - a} \cdot \frac{\frac{\pi}{2}}{a + b}\]

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Initial program 14.4
\[\left(\frac{\pi}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)\]
Initial simplification0.3
\[\leadsto \frac{\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}}{b - a} \cdot \frac{\frac{\pi}{2}}{a + b}\]
Using strategy rm
Applied *-commutative0.3
\[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{\pi}{2}}{a + b} \cdot \frac{\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}}{b - a}}\]
Final simplification0.3
\[\leadsto \frac{\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}}{b - a} \cdot \frac{\frac{\pi}{2}}{a + b}\]

herbie shell --seed 2018273 
(FPCore (a b)
  :name "NMSE Section 6.1 mentioned, B"
  (* (* (/ PI 2) (/ 1 (- (* b b) (* a a)))) (- (/ 1 a) (/ 1 b))))