Average Error: 0.0 → 0.0
Time: 1.7s
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 r86637 = a;
        double r86638 = r86637 * r86637;
        double r86639 = b;
        double r86640 = r86639 * r86639;
        double r86641 = r86638 - r86640;
        return r86641;
}
↓
double f(double a, double b) {
        double r86642 = a;
        double r86643 = b;
        double r86644 = r86642 + r86643;
        double r86645 = r86642 - r86643;
        double r86646 = r86644 * r86645;
        return r86646;
}

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 2020083 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (a b)
  :name "Difference of squares"
  :precision binary64

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

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