\[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1\]
\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(3 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1
double f(double a, double b) {
        double r8485 = a;
        double r8486 = r8485 * r8485;
        double r8487 = b;
        double r8488 = r8487 * r8487;
        double r8489 = r8486 + r8488;
        double r8490 = 2.0;
        double r8491 = pow(r8489, r8490);
        double r8492 = 4.0;
        double r8493 = 1.0;
        double r8494 = r8493 - r8485;
        double r8495 = r8486 * r8494;
        double r8496 = 3.0;
        double r8497 = r8496 + r8485;
        double r8498 = r8488 * r8497;
        double r8499 = r8495 + r8498;
        double r8500 = r8492 * r8499;
        double r8501 = r8491 + r8500;
        double r8502 = r8501 - r8493;
        return r8502;
}

Reproduce

Please include this information when filing a bug report:

herbie shell --seed 2019179 
(FPCore (a b)
  :name "Bouland and Aaronson, Equation (24)"
  (- (+ (pow (+ (* a a) (* b b)) 2.0) (* 4.0 (+ (* (* a a) (- 1.0 a)) (* (* b b) (+ 3.0 a))))) 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