Average Error: 0.0 → 0.0
Time: 6.1s
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 r62521 = a;
        double r62522 = r62521 * r62521;
        double r62523 = b;
        double r62524 = r62523 * r62523;
        double r62525 = r62522 - r62524;
        return r62525;
}
↓
double f(double a, double b) {
        double r62526 = a;
        double r62527 = b;
        double r62528 = r62526 - r62527;
        double r62529 = r62526 + r62527;
        double r62530 = r62528 * r62529;
        return r62530;
}

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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. Simplified0.0

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

  3. Final simplification0.0

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020042 
(FPCore (a b)
  :name "Difference of squares"
  :precision binary64

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

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