Average Error: 0.0 → 0.0
Time: 14.9s
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 r70872 = a;
        double r70873 = r70872 * r70872;
        double r70874 = b;
        double r70875 = r70874 * r70874;
        double r70876 = r70873 - r70875;
        return r70876;
}
↓
double f(double a, double b) {
        double r70877 = a;
        double r70878 = b;
        double r70879 = r70877 + r70878;
        double r70880 = r70877 - r70878;
        double r70881 = r70879 * r70880;
        return r70881;
}

Error

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Target

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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. Using strategy rm

  3. Applied difference-of-squares0.0

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

  4. Final simplification0.0

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2019303 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (a b)
  :name "Difference of squares"
  :precision binary64

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

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