Average Error: 0.0 → 0.0
Time: 718.0ms
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 r91893 = a;
        double r91894 = r91893 * r91893;
        double r91895 = b;
        double r91896 = r91895 * r91895;
        double r91897 = r91894 - r91896;
        return r91897;
}
↓
double f(double a, double b) {
        double r91898 = a;
        double r91899 = b;
        double r91900 = r91898 + r91899;
        double r91901 = r91898 - r91899;
        double r91902 = r91900 * r91901;
        return r91902;
}

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 2020047 
(FPCore (a b)
  :name "Difference of squares"
  :precision binary64

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

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