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Original	25.5
Target	0.4
Herbie	25.4

\[\begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\left|d\right| \lt \left|c\right|:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{a + b \cdot \frac{d}{c}}{c + d \cdot \frac{d}{c}}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b + a \cdot \frac{c}{d}}{d + c \cdot \frac{c}{d}}\\ \end{array}\]

Derivation

Initial program 25.5
\[\frac{a \cdot c + b \cdot d}{c \cdot c + d \cdot d}\]
Using strategy rm
Applied add-sqr-sqrt25.5
\[\leadsto \frac{a \cdot c + b \cdot d}{\color{blue}{\sqrt{c \cdot c + d \cdot d} \cdot \sqrt{c \cdot c + d \cdot d}}}\]
Applied associate-/r*25.4
\[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{a \cdot c + b \cdot d}{\sqrt{c \cdot c + d \cdot d}}}{\sqrt{c \cdot c + d \cdot d}}}\]
Final simplification25.4
\[\leadsto \frac{\frac{b \cdot d + a \cdot c}{\sqrt{c \cdot c + d \cdot d}}}{\sqrt{c \cdot c + d \cdot d}}\]

Runtime

	Baseline	Herbie	Oracle	Span	%
Regimes	25.4	25.4	22.9	2.6	0%

herbie shell --seed 2018286 
(FPCore (a b c d)
  :name "Complex division, real part"

  :herbie-target
  (if (< (fabs d) (fabs c)) (/ (+ a (* b (/ d c))) (+ c (* d (/ d c)))) (/ (+ b (* a (/ c d))) (+ d (* c (/ c d)))))

  (/ (+ (* a c) (* b d)) (+ (* c c) (* d d))))