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



Bits error versus a



Bits error versus b
Results
Initial program 0.2
Simplified0.2
Final simplification0.2
herbie shell --seed 2020123 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (a b)
:name "Bouland and Aaronson, Equation (26)"
:precision binary64
(- (+ (pow (+ (* a a) (* b b)) 2) (* 4 (* b b))) 1))