\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + \left(\sqrt[3]{4} \cdot \sqrt[3]{4}\right) \cdot \left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) \cdot \sqrt[3]{4}\right)\right) - 1double code(double a, double b) {
return ((pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + (4.0 * (((a * a) * (1.0 - a)) + ((b * b) * (3.0 + a))))) - 1.0);
}
double code(double a, double b) {
return ((pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + ((cbrt(4.0) * cbrt(4.0)) * (fma((a * a), (1.0 - a), ((b * b) * (3.0 + a))) * cbrt(4.0)))) - 1.0);
}



Bits error versus a



Bits error versus b
Results
Initial program 0.2
rmApplied add-cube-cbrt0.2
Applied associate-*l*0.2
Simplified0.2
Final simplification0.2
herbie shell --seed 2020053 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (a b)
:name "Bouland and Aaronson, Equation (24)"
:precision binary64
(- (+ (pow (+ (* a a) (* b b)) 2) (* 4 (+ (* (* a a) (- 1 a)) (* (* b b) (+ 3 a))))) 1))