Average Error: 14.5 → 0.3
Time: 5.8s
Precision: 64
\[\left(\frac{\pi}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)\]
↓
\[\frac{\frac{\frac{\pi}{2}}{b + a} \cdot 1}{\frac{b - a}{\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}}}\]
\left(\frac{\pi}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)
↓
\frac{\frac{\frac{\pi}{2}}{b + a} \cdot 1}{\frac{b - a}{\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}}}
double f(double a, double b) {
        double r45120 = atan2(1.0, 0.0);
        double r45121 = 2.0;
        double r45122 = r45120 / r45121;
        double r45123 = 1.0;
        double r45124 = b;
        double r45125 = r45124 * r45124;
        double r45126 = a;
        double r45127 = r45126 * r45126;
        double r45128 = r45125 - r45127;
        double r45129 = r45123 / r45128;
        double r45130 = r45122 * r45129;
        double r45131 = r45123 / r45126;
        double r45132 = r45123 / r45124;
        double r45133 = r45131 - r45132;
        double r45134 = r45130 * r45133;
        return r45134;
}
↓
double f(double a, double b) {
        double r45135 = atan2(1.0, 0.0);
        double r45136 = 2.0;
        double r45137 = r45135 / r45136;
        double r45138 = b;
        double r45139 = a;
        double r45140 = r45138 + r45139;
        double r45141 = r45137 / r45140;
        double r45142 = 1.0;
        double r45143 = r45141 * r45142;
        double r45144 = r45138 - r45139;
        double r45145 = r45142 / r45139;
        double r45146 = r45142 / r45138;
        double r45147 = r45145 - r45146;
        double r45148 = r45144 / r45147;
        double r45149 = r45143 / r45148;
        return r45149;
}

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Derivation

  1. Initial program 14.5

    \[\left(\frac{\pi}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)\]
  2. Using strategy rm

  3. Applied difference-of-squares9.6

    \[\leadsto \left(\frac{\pi}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\left(b + a\right) \cdot \left(b - a\right)}}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)\]

  4. Applied *-un-lft-identity9.6

    \[\leadsto \left(\frac{\pi}{2} \cdot \frac{\color{blue}{1 \cdot 1}}{\left(b + a\right) \cdot \left(b - a\right)}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)\]

  5. Applied times-frac9.0

    \[\leadsto \left(\frac{\pi}{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{b + a} \cdot \frac{1}{b - a}\right)}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)\]

  6. Applied associate-*r*9.0

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\left(\frac{\pi}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b + a}\right) \cdot \frac{1}{b - a}\right)} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)\]

  7. Simplified9.0

    \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{\pi}{2}}{b + a}} \cdot \frac{1}{b - a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)\]
  8. Using strategy rm

  9. Applied associate-*r/9.0

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{\frac{\pi}{2}}{b + a} \cdot 1}{b - a}} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)\]

  10. Applied associate-*l/0.3

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(\frac{\frac{\pi}{2}}{b + a} \cdot 1\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)}{b - a}}\]
  11. Using strategy rm

  12. Applied associate-/l*0.3

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{\frac{\pi}{2}}{b + a} \cdot 1}{\frac{b - a}{\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}}}}\]

  13. Final simplification0.3

    \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\frac{\pi}{2}}{b + a} \cdot 1}{\frac{b - a}{\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}}}\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2019354 
(FPCore (a b)
  :name "NMSE Section 6.1 mentioned, B"
  :precision binary64
  (* (* (/ PI 2) (/ 1 (- (* b b) (* a a)))) (- (/ 1 a) (/ 1 b))))