Average Error: 0.0 → 0.0
Time: 1.2s
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 r88452 = a;
        double r88453 = r88452 * r88452;
        double r88454 = b;
        double r88455 = r88454 * r88454;
        double r88456 = r88453 - r88455;
        return r88456;
}
↓
double f(double a, double b) {
        double r88457 = a;
        double r88458 = b;
        double r88459 = r88457 + r88458;
        double r88460 = r88457 - r88458;
        double r88461 = r88459 * r88460;
        return r88461;
}

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 2020034 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (a b)
  :name "Difference of squares"
  :precision binary64

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

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