Average Error: 14.4 → 0.2
Time: 4.2s
Precision: binary64
\[\left(\frac{\pi}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)\]
↓
\[\frac{\frac{\frac{\pi}{2}}{b + a} \cdot 1}{a \cdot b}\]
\left(\frac{\pi}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)
↓
\frac{\frac{\frac{\pi}{2}}{b + a} \cdot 1}{a \cdot b}
double code(double a, double b) {
	return ((double) (((double) (((double) (((double) M_PI) / 2.0)) * ((double) (1.0 / ((double) (((double) (b * b)) - ((double) (a * a)))))))) * ((double) (((double) (1.0 / a)) - ((double) (1.0 / b))))));
}
↓
double code(double a, double b) {
	return ((double) (((double) (((double) (((double) (((double) M_PI) / 2.0)) / ((double) (b + a)))) * 1.0)) / ((double) (a * b))));
}

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Derivation

  1. Initial program 14.4

    \[\left(\frac{\pi}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)\]
  2. Using strategy rm

  3. Applied difference-of-squares9.9

    \[\leadsto \left(\frac{\pi}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\left(b + a\right) \cdot \left(b - a\right)}}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)\]

  4. Applied *-un-lft-identity9.9

    \[\leadsto \left(\frac{\pi}{2} \cdot \frac{\color{blue}{1 \cdot 1}}{\left(b + a\right) \cdot \left(b - a\right)}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)\]

  5. Applied times-frac9.3

    \[\leadsto \left(\frac{\pi}{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{b + a} \cdot \frac{1}{b - a}\right)}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)\]

  6. Applied associate-*r*9.3

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\left(\frac{\pi}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b + a}\right) \cdot \frac{1}{b - a}\right)} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)\]

  7. Simplified9.2

    \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{\pi}{2}}{b + a}} \cdot \frac{1}{b - a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)\]
  8. Using strategy rm

  9. Applied associate-*l*0.3

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{\pi}{2}}{b + a} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{b - a} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)\right)}\]

  10. Taylor expanded around 0 0.3

    \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\pi}{2}}{b + a} \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{1}{a \cdot b}}\]
  11. Using strategy rm

  12. Applied associate-*r/0.2

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{\frac{\pi}{2}}{b + a} \cdot 1}{a \cdot b}}\]

  13. Final simplification0.2

    \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\frac{\pi}{2}}{b + a} \cdot 1}{a \cdot b}\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020162 
(FPCore (a b)
  :name "NMSE Section 6.1 mentioned, B"
  :precision binary64
  (* (* (/ PI 2.0) (/ 1.0 (- (* b b) (* a a)))) (- (/ 1.0 a) (/ 1.0 b))))