\frac{\cos th}{\sqrt{2}} \cdot \left(a1 \cdot a1\right) + \frac{\cos th}{\sqrt{2}} \cdot \left(a2 \cdot a2\right)\left(\sqrt{\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}} \cdot \left(\cos th \cdot \left(a2 \cdot a2\right) + \cos th \cdot \left(a1 \cdot a1\right)\right)\right) \cdot \frac{1}{\sqrt{\sqrt{2}}}double code(double a1, double a2, double th) {
return (((cos(th) / sqrt(2.0)) * (a1 * a1)) + ((cos(th) / sqrt(2.0)) * (a2 * a2)));
}
double code(double a1, double a2, double th) {
return ((sqrt((1.0 / sqrt(2.0))) * ((cos(th) * (a2 * a2)) + (cos(th) * (a1 * a1)))) * (1.0 / sqrt(sqrt(2.0))));
}



Bits error versus a1



Bits error versus a2



Bits error versus th
Results
Initial program 0.5
Simplified0.5
rmApplied add-sqr-sqrt0.5
Applied sqrt-prod0.6
Applied associate-/r*0.5
Taylor expanded around inf 0.4
Simplified0.4
rmApplied div-inv0.4
Final simplification0.4
herbie shell --seed 2020075 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (a1 a2 th)
:name "Migdal et al, Equation (64)"
:precision binary64
(+ (* (/ (cos th) (sqrt 2)) (* a1 a1)) (* (/ (cos th) (sqrt 2)) (* a2 a2))))