\frac{\left(x - y\right) \cdot \left(x + y\right)}{x \cdot x + y \cdot y}\frac{1}{\frac{\mathsf{hypot}\left(x, y\right) \cdot \frac{\mathsf{hypot}\left(x, y\right)}{x - y}}{x + y}}double code(double x, double y) {
return (((x - y) * (x + y)) / ((x * x) + (y * y)));
}
double code(double x, double y) {
return (1.0 / ((hypot(x, y) * (hypot(x, y) / (x - y))) / (x + y)));
}




Bits error versus x




Bits error versus y
Results
| Original | 20.5 |
|---|---|
| Target | 0.1 |
| Herbie | 0.0 |
Initial program 20.5
rmApplied clear-num20.5
Simplified20.7
rmApplied *-un-lft-identity20.7
Applied add-sqr-sqrt20.7
Applied times-frac20.6
Simplified20.6
Simplified0.0
Final simplification0.0
herbie shell --seed 2020091 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (x y)
:name "Kahan p9 Example"
:precision binary64
:pre (and (< 0.0 x 1) (< y 1))
:herbie-target
(if (< 0.5 (fabs (/ x y)) 2) (/ (* (- x y) (+ x y)) (+ (* x x) (* y y))) (- 1 (/ 2 (+ 1 (* (/ x y) (/ x y))))))
(/ (* (- x y) (+ x y)) (+ (* x x) (* y y))))