Average Error: 17.0 → 3.7
Time: 34.1s
Precision: binary64
\[\cos^{-1} \left(\sin \phi_1 \cdot \sin \phi_2 + \left(\cos \phi_1 \cdot \cos \phi_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)\right) \cdot R\]
↓
\[R \cdot \left(-\sin^{-1} \left(\sin \phi_1 \cdot \sin \phi_2 + \left(\cos \phi_1 \cdot \cos \phi_2\right) \cdot \left(\cos \lambda_1 \cdot \cos \lambda_2 + \sin \lambda_1 \cdot \sin \lambda_2\right)\right)\right) + R \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \pi\right)\]

Error

Bits error versus R

Bits error versus lambda1

Bits error versus lambda2

Bits error versus phi1

Bits error versus phi2

Derivation

  1. Initial program 17.0

    \[\cos^{-1} \left(\sin \phi_1 \cdot \sin \phi_2 + \left(\cos \phi_1 \cdot \cos \phi_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)\right) \cdot R\]
  2. Using strategy rm

  3. Applied cos-diff3.6

    \[\leadsto \cos^{-1} \left(\sin \phi_1 \cdot \sin \phi_2 + \left(\cos \phi_1 \cdot \cos \phi_2\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\cos \lambda_1 \cdot \cos \lambda_2 + \sin \lambda_1 \cdot \sin \lambda_2\right)}\right) \cdot R\]
  4. Using strategy rm

  5. Applied acos-asin3.7

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\frac{\pi}{2} - \sin^{-1} \left(\sin \phi_1 \cdot \sin \phi_2 + \left(\cos \phi_1 \cdot \cos \phi_2\right) \cdot \left(\cos \lambda_1 \cdot \cos \lambda_2 + \sin \lambda_1 \cdot \sin \lambda_2\right)\right)\right)} \cdot R\]

  6. Taylor expanded around 0 3.7

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \pi - \sin^{-1} \left(\sin \phi_1 \cdot \sin \phi_2 + \left(\cos \lambda_1 \cdot \left(\cos \phi_1 \cdot \left(\cos \phi_2 \cdot \cos \lambda_2\right)\right) + \sin \lambda_1 \cdot \left(\cos \phi_1 \cdot \left(\cos \phi_2 \cdot \sin \lambda_2\right)\right)\right)\right)\right) \cdot R}\]

  7. Simplified3.7

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{R \cdot \left(-\sin^{-1} \left(\sin \phi_1 \cdot \sin \phi_2 + \left(\cos \phi_1 \cdot \cos \phi_2\right) \cdot \left(\cos \lambda_1 \cdot \cos \lambda_2 + \sin \lambda_1 \cdot \sin \lambda_2\right)\right)\right) + R \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \pi\right)}\]

  8. Final simplification3.7

    \[\leadsto R \cdot \left(-\sin^{-1} \left(\sin \phi_1 \cdot \sin \phi_2 + \left(\cos \phi_1 \cdot \cos \phi_2\right) \cdot \left(\cos \lambda_1 \cdot \cos \lambda_2 + \sin \lambda_1 \cdot \sin \lambda_2\right)\right)\right) + R \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \pi\right)\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020168 
(FPCore (R lambda1 lambda2 phi1 phi2)
  :name "Spherical law of cosines"
  :precision binary64
  (* (acos (+ (* (sin phi1) (sin phi2)) (* (* (cos phi1) (cos phi2)) (cos (- lambda1 lambda2))))) R))