\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right)\right) - 1\mathsf{fma}\left(4 \cdot b, b, {\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, b \cdot b\right)\right)}^{2} - 1\right)double code(double a, double b) {
return ((pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + (4.0 * (b * b))) - 1.0);
}
double code(double a, double b) {
return fma((4.0 * b), b, (pow(fma(a, a, (b * b)), 2.0) - 1.0));
}



Bits error versus a



Bits error versus b
Results
Initial program 0.2
Simplified0.2
rmApplied *-un-lft-identity0.2
Applied pow-unpow0.2
Simplified0.2
Final simplification0.2
herbie shell --seed 2020091 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (a b)
:name "Bouland and Aaronson, Equation (26)"
:precision binary64
(- (+ (pow (+ (* a a) (* b b)) 2) (* 4 (* b b))) 1))