Average Error: 16.5 → 3.9
Time: 17.3s
Precision: binary64
\[\cos^{-1} \left(\sin \phi_1 \cdot \sin \phi_2 + \left(\cos \phi_1 \cdot \cos \phi_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)\right) \cdot R\]
↓
\[\log \left(e^{\cos^{-1} \left(\log \left(e^{\sin \phi_1 \cdot \sin \phi_2}\right) + \left(\cos \phi_1 \cdot \cos \phi_2\right) \cdot \left(\cos \lambda_1 \cdot \cos \lambda_2 + \sin \lambda_1 \cdot \sin \lambda_2\right)\right)}\right) \cdot R\]
\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
↓
\log \left(e^{\cos^{-1} \left(\log \left(e^{\sin \phi_1 \cdot \sin \phi_2}\right) + \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
(FPCore (R lambda1 lambda2 phi1 phi2)
 :precision binary64
 (*
  (acos
   (+
    (* (sin phi1) (sin phi2))
    (* (* (cos phi1) (cos phi2)) (cos (- lambda1 lambda2)))))
  R))
↓
(FPCore (R lambda1 lambda2 phi1 phi2)
 :precision binary64
 (*
  (log
   (exp
    (acos
     (+
      (log (exp (* (sin phi1) (sin phi2))))
      (*
       (* (cos phi1) (cos phi2))
       (+ (* (cos lambda1) (cos lambda2)) (* (sin lambda1) (sin lambda2))))))))
  R))
double code(double R, double lambda1, double lambda2, double phi1, double phi2) {
	return ((double) (((double) acos(((double) (((double) (((double) sin(phi1)) * ((double) sin(phi2)))) + ((double) (((double) (((double) cos(phi1)) * ((double) cos(phi2)))) * ((double) cos(((double) (lambda1 - lambda2)))))))))) * R));
}
↓
double code(double R, double lambda1, double lambda2, double phi1, double phi2) {
	return ((double) (((double) log(((double) exp(((double) acos(((double) (((double) log(((double) exp(((double) (((double) sin(phi1)) * ((double) sin(phi2)))))))) + ((double) (((double) (((double) cos(phi1)) * ((double) cos(phi2)))) * ((double) (((double) (((double) cos(lambda1)) * ((double) cos(lambda2)))) + ((double) (((double) sin(lambda1)) * ((double) sin(lambda2)))))))))))))))) * R));
}

Error

Bits error versus R

Bits error versus lambda1

Bits error versus lambda2

Bits error versus phi1

Bits error versus phi2

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Results

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Derivation

  1. Initial program 16.5

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

  3. Applied cos-diff_binary643.8

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

  5. Applied add-log-exp_binary643.9

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

  7. Applied add-log-exp_binary643.9

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

  8. Final simplification3.9

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020219 
(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))