\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(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1\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(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\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) * (1.0 - (3.0 * a)))))) - 1.0);
}
double code(double a, double b) {
return ((pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + (4.0 * (((a * a) * (1.0 + a)) + ((b * b) * (1.0 - (3.0 * a)))))) - 1.0);
}



Bits error versus a



Bits error versus b
Results
Initial program 0.2
Final simplification0.2
herbie shell --seed 2020057 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (a b)
:name "Bouland and Aaronson, Equation (25)"
:precision binary64
(- (+ (pow (+ (* a a) (* b b)) 2) (* 4 (+ (* (* a a) (+ 1 a)) (* (* b b) (- 1 (* 3 a)))))) 1))