Average Error: 0.2 → 0.0
Time: 2.9s
Precision: binary64
\[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right)\right) - 1\]
↓
\[\left(\left({b}^{4} + \left({a}^{4} + \left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(b \cdot 2\right)\right)\right)\right) + 4 \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right)\right) - 1\]
\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right)\right) - 1
↓
\left(\left({b}^{4} + \left({a}^{4} + \left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(b \cdot 2\right)\right)\right)\right) + 4 \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right)\right) - 1
(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (- (+ (pow (+ (* a a) (* b b)) 2.0) (* 4.0 (* b b))) 1.0))
↓
(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (-
  (+
   (+ (pow b 4.0) (+ (pow a 4.0) (* (* a a) (* b (* b 2.0)))))
   (* 4.0 (* b b)))
  1.0))
double code(double a, double b) {
	return (pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + (4.0 * (b * b))) - 1.0;
}
↓
double code(double a, double b) {
	return ((pow(b, 4.0) + (pow(a, 4.0) + ((a * a) * (b * (b * 2.0))))) + (4.0 * (b * b))) - 1.0;
}

Error

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Bits error versus b

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Derivation

  1. Initial program 0.2

    \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right)\right) - 1\]

  2. Taylor expanded around 0 0.0

    \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{\left({b}^{4} + \left({a}^{4} + 2 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot {b}^{2}\right)\right)\right)} + 4 \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right)\right) - 1\]

  3. Simplified0.0

    \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{\left({b}^{4} + \left({a}^{4} + \left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(b \cdot 2\right)\right)\right)\right)} + 4 \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right)\right) - 1\]

  4. Final simplification0.0

    \[\leadsto \left(\left({b}^{4} + \left({a}^{4} + \left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(b \cdot 2\right)\right)\right)\right) + 4 \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right)\right) - 1\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020233 
(FPCore (a b)
  :name "Bouland and Aaronson, Equation (26)"
  :precision binary64
  (- (+ (pow (+ (* a a) (* b b)) 2.0) (* 4.0 (* b b))) 1.0))