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 r140283 = a;
        double r140284 = r140283 * r140283;
        double r140285 = b;
        double r140286 = r140285 * r140285;
        double r140287 = r140284 - r140286;
        return r140287;
}
↓
double f(double a, double b) {
        double r140288 = a;
        double r140289 = b;
        double r140290 = r140288 + r140289;
        double r140291 = r140288 - r140289;
        double r140292 = r140290 * r140291;
        return r140292;
}

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 2020036 
(FPCore (a b)
  :name "Difference of squares"
  :precision binary64

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

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