Average Error: 0.0 → 0.0
Time: 873.0ms
Precision: 64
\[a \cdot a - b \cdot b\]
↓
\[\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, -b \cdot b\right)\]
a \cdot a - b \cdot b
↓
\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, -b \cdot b\right)
double code(double a, double b) {
	return ((a * a) - (b * b));
}
↓
double code(double a, double b) {
	return fma(a, a, -(b * b));
}

Error

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Bits error versus b

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Target

Original0.0
Target0.0
Herbie0.0
\[\left(a + b\right) \cdot \left(a - b\right)\]

Derivation

  1. Initial program 0.0

    \[a \cdot a - b \cdot b\]
  2. Using strategy rm

  3. Applied fma-neg0.0

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, -b \cdot b\right)}\]

  4. Final simplification0.0

    \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, -b \cdot b\right)\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020106 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (a b)
  :name "Difference of squares"
  :precision binary64

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

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