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



Bits error versus a



Bits error versus b
Results
Initial program 0.2
Taylor expanded around inf 0.9
Final simplification0.9
herbie shell --seed 2020130
(FPCore (a b)
:name "Bouland and Aaronson, Equation (26)"
:precision binary64
(- (+ (pow (+ (* a a) (* b b)) 2.0) (* 4.0 (* b b))) 1.0))