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Derivation

1. Initial program 17.0

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

5. Applied add-cube-cbrt3.7

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

7. Applied cbrt-prod3.7

   \[\leadsto \cos^{-1} \left(\left(\sqrt[3]{\sin \phi_1 \cdot \sin \phi_2} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\sqrt[3]{\sin \phi_1} \cdot \sqrt[3]{\sin \phi_2}\right)}\right) \cdot \sqrt[3]{\sin \phi_1 \cdot \sin \phi_2} + \left(\cos \phi_1 \cdot \cos \phi_2\right) \cdot \left(\cos \lambda_1 \cdot \cos \lambda_2 + \sin \lambda_1 \cdot \sin \lambda_2\right)\right) \cdot R\]

8. Final simplification3.7

   \[\leadsto \cos^{-1} \left(\left(\sin \lambda_1 \cdot \sin \lambda_2 + \cos \lambda_1 \cdot \cos \lambda_2\right) \cdot \left(\cos \phi_1 \cdot \cos \phi_2\right) + \left(\left(\sqrt[3]{\sin \phi_2} \cdot \sqrt[3]{\sin \phi_1}\right) \cdot \sqrt[3]{\sin \phi_2 \cdot \sin \phi_1}\right) \cdot \sqrt[3]{\sin \phi_2 \cdot \sin \phi_1}\right) \cdot R\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2019089 
(FPCore (R lambda1 lambda2 phi1 phi2)
  :name "Spherical law of cosines"
  (* (acos (+ (* (sin phi1) (sin phi2)) (* (* (cos phi1) (cos phi2)) (cos (- lambda1 lambda2))))) R))