x \cdot x - y \cdot y
\mathsf{fma}\left(x, x, -y \cdot y\right)double code(double x, double y) {
return ((x * x) - (y * y));
}
double code(double x, double y) {
return fma(x, x, -(y * y));
}



Bits error versus x



Bits error versus y
Results
Initial program 0.0
rmApplied fma-neg0.0
Final simplification0.0
herbie shell --seed 2020057 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (x y)
:name "Examples.Basics.BasicTests:f2 from sbv-4.4"
:precision binary64
(- (* x x) (* y y)))