Average Error: 0.0 → 0.0
Time: 3.8s
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 r1764918 = a;
        double r1764919 = r1764918 * r1764918;
        double r1764920 = b;
        double r1764921 = r1764920 * r1764920;
        double r1764922 = r1764919 - r1764921;
        return r1764922;
}
↓
double f(double a, double b) {
        double r1764923 = a;
        double r1764924 = b;
        double r1764925 = r1764923 + r1764924;
        double r1764926 = r1764923 - r1764924;
        double r1764927 = r1764925 * r1764926;
        return r1764927;
}

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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 2019156 
(FPCore (a b)
  :name "Difference of squares"

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

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