\[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right)\right) - 1\]
\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right)\right) - 1
double f(double a, double b) {
        double r8249 = a;
        double r8250 = r8249 * r8249;
        double r8251 = b;
        double r8252 = r8251 * r8251;
        double r8253 = r8250 + r8252;
        double r8254 = 2.0;
        double r8255 = pow(r8253, r8254);
        double r8256 = 4.0;
        double r8257 = r8256 * r8252;
        double r8258 = r8255 + r8257;
        double r8259 = 1.0;
        double r8260 = r8258 - r8259;
        return r8260;
}

Reproduce

Please include this information when filing a bug report:

herbie shell --seed 2019179 
(FPCore (a b)
  :name "Bouland and Aaronson, Equation (26)"
  (- (+ (pow (+ (* a a) (* b b)) 2.0) (* 4.0 (* b b))) 1.0))

Backtrace

result arity mismatch; expected number of values not received expected: 2 received: 1 in: local-binding form values...: 0LC
loop/data/pavpan/nightlies/herbie/various-cleanup/src/core/extraction.rkt252
(unnamed)/data/pavpan/nightlies/herbie/various-cleanup/src/core/simplify.rkt260
simplify!/data/pavpan/nightlies/herbie/various-cleanup/src/mainloop.rkt2170
run-improve43/data/pavpan/nightlies/herbie/various-cleanup/src/mainloop.rkt3390
(unnamed)/opt/racket-7.0/collects/racket/private/more-scheme.rkt26128
run/opt/racket-7.0/share/pkgs/profile-lib/main.rkt392
profile-thunk16/opt/racket-7.0/share/pkgs/profile-lib/main.rkt90
(unnamed)/opt/racket-7.0/collects/racket/private/more-scheme.rkt26128