Average Error: 0.0 → 0.0
Time: 13.8s
Precision: 64
\[a \cdot a - b \cdot b\]
↓
\[\left(a + b\right) \cdot \left(a - b\right)\]
a \cdot a - b \cdot b
↓
\left(a + b\right) \cdot \left(a - b\right)
double f(double a, double b) {
        double r3937209 = a;
        double r3937210 = r3937209 * r3937209;
        double r3937211 = b;
        double r3937212 = r3937211 * r3937211;
        double r3937213 = r3937210 - r3937212;
        return r3937213;
}
↓
double f(double a, double b) {
        double r3937214 = a;
        double r3937215 = b;
        double r3937216 = r3937214 + r3937215;
        double r3937217 = r3937214 - r3937215;
        double r3937218 = r3937216 * r3937217;
        return r3937218;
}

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\[\left(a + b\right) \cdot \left(a - b\right)\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 0.0

    \[a \cdot a - b \cdot b\]

  2. Taylor expanded around 0 0.0

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}}\]

  3. Simplified0.0

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(b + a\right) \cdot \left(a - b\right)}\]

  4. Final simplification0.0

    \[\leadsto \left(a + b\right) \cdot \left(a - b\right)\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2019146 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (a b)
  :name "Difference of squares"

  :herbie-target
  (* (+ a b) (- a b))

  (- (* a a) (* b b)))