Average Error: 0.0 → 0.0
Time: 1.4s
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 r46249 = a;
        double r46250 = r46249 * r46249;
        double r46251 = b;
        double r46252 = r46251 * r46251;
        double r46253 = r46250 - r46252;
        return r46253;
}
↓
double f(double a, double b) {
        double r46254 = a;
        double r46255 = b;
        double r46256 = r46254 - r46255;
        double r46257 = r46254 + r46255;
        double r46258 = r46256 * r46257;
        return r46258;
}

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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 2020045 
(FPCore (a b)
  :name "Difference of squares"
  :precision binary64

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

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