Average Error: 0.0 → 0.0
Time: 767.0ms
Precision: 64
\[x \cdot x - y \cdot y\]
↓
\[\left(x + y\right) \cdot \left(x - y\right)\]
x \cdot x - y \cdot y
↓
\left(x + y\right) \cdot \left(x - y\right)
double code(double x, double y) {
	return ((x * x) - (y * y));
}
↓
double code(double x, double y) {
	return ((x + y) * (x - y));
}

Error

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Bits error versus y

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Results

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Derivation

  1. Initial program 0.0

    \[x \cdot x - y \cdot y\]
  2. Using strategy rm

  3. Applied difference-of-squares0.0

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(x + y\right) \cdot \left(x - y\right)}\]

  4. Final simplification0.0

    \[\leadsto \left(x + y\right) \cdot \left(x - y\right)\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020091 
(FPCore (x y)
  :name "Examples.Basics.BasicTests:f2 from sbv-4.4"
  :precision binary64
  (- (* x x) (* y y)))