\[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1\]

\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1

double f(double a, double b) {
        double r8347 = a;
        double r8348 = r8347 * r8347;
        double r8349 = b;
        double r8350 = r8349 * r8349;
        double r8351 = r8348 + r8350;
        double r8352 = 2.0;
        double r8353 = pow(r8351, r8352);
        double r8354 = 4.0;
        double r8355 = 1.0;
        double r8356 = r8355 + r8347;
        double r8357 = r8348 * r8356;
        double r8358 = 3.0;
        double r8359 = r8358 * r8347;
        double r8360 = r8355 - r8359;
        double r8361 = r8350 * r8360;
        double r8362 = r8357 + r8361;
        double r8363 = r8354 * r8362;
        double r8364 = r8353 + r8363;
        double r8365 = r8364 - r8355;
        return r8365;
}

Reproduce

Please include this information when filing a bug report:

herbie shell --seed 2019173 
(FPCore (a b)
  :name "Bouland and Aaronson, Equation (25)"
  (- (+ (pow (+ (* a a) (* b b)) 2.0) (* 4.0 (+ (* (* a a) (+ 1.0 a)) (* (* b b) (- 1.0 (* 3.0 a)))))) 1.0))

Backtrace

atab-pick-alt: contract violation expected: alt? given: '(#<alt (λ (a b) (- (+ (pow (+ (* a a) (* b b)) 2.0) (* 4.0 (+ (* (* a a) (+ 1.0 a)) (* (* b b) (- 1.0 (* 3.0 a)))))) 1.0))>) in: the range of the #:picking-func argument of (-> alt-table? #:only-fresh boolean? #:picking-func (-> (listof alt?) alt?) (values alt? alt-table?)) contract from: /data/pavpan/nightlies/herbie/no-costs-2/src/core/alt-table.rkt blaming: /data/pavpan/nightlies/herbie/no-costs-2/src/mainloop.rkt (assuming the contract is correct) at: /data/pavpan/nightlies/herbie/no-costs-2/src/core/alt-table.rkt:13.3		L	C
raise-blame-error16	/opt/racket-7.0/collects/racket/contract/private/blame.rkt	347	0
(unnamed)	/data/pavpan/nightlies/herbie/no-costs-2/src/core/alt-table.rkt	59	0
(unnamed)	/opt/racket-7.0/collects/racket/contract/private/arrow-val-first.rkt	388	18
choose-best-alt!	/data/pavpan/nightlies/herbie/no-costs-2/src/mainloop.rkt	110	0
run-iter!	/data/pavpan/nightlies/herbie/no-costs-2/src/mainloop.rkt	319	0
for-loop	/data/pavpan/nightlies/herbie/no-costs-2/src/mainloop.rkt	353	4
run-improve43	/data/pavpan/nightlies/herbie/no-costs-2/src/mainloop.rkt	338	0
(unnamed)	/opt/racket-7.0/collects/racket/private/more-scheme.rkt	261	28
run	/opt/racket-7.0/share/pkgs/profile-lib/main.rkt	39	2
profile-thunk16	/opt/racket-7.0/share/pkgs/profile-lib/main.rkt	9	0
(unnamed)	/opt/racket-7.0/collects/racket/private/more-scheme.rkt	261	28