Average Error: 0.0 → 0.0
Time: 1.1s
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 r71909 = a;
        double r71910 = r71909 * r71909;
        double r71911 = b;
        double r71912 = r71911 * r71911;
        double r71913 = r71910 - r71912;
        return r71913;
}
↓
double f(double a, double b) {
        double r71914 = a;
        double r71915 = b;
        double r71916 = r71914 + r71915;
        double r71917 = r71914 - r71915;
        double r71918 = r71916 * r71917;
        return r71918;
}

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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 2020100 
(FPCore (a b)
  :name "Difference of squares"
  :precision binary64

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

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