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Derivation

1. Initial program 16.6

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

3. Applied cos-diff4.0

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

4. Applied distribute-lft-in4.0

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

6. Applied add-log-exp4.0

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

8. Applied log1p-expm1-u4.0

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

9. Final simplification4.0

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2018360 +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))

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