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Derivation

1. Initial program 17.2

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

2. Simplified17.2

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

4. Applied cos-diff3.9

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

6. Applied add-log-exp3.9

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

8. Applied fma-udef3.9

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

9. Final simplification3.9

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2019008 +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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