Spherical law of cosines

Average Error: 17.3 → 3.8

Time: 23.0s

Precision: binary64

Cost: 71488

Math

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

↓

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

FPCore

(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
 (*
  R
  (acos
   (+
    (* (sin phi1) (sin phi2))
    (*
     (* (cos phi1) (cos phi2))
     (+
      (* (cos lambda1) (cos lambda2))
      (log (exp (* (sin lambda1) (sin lambda2))))))))))

C

double code(double R, double lambda1, double lambda2, double phi1, double phi2) {
	return acos((sin(phi1) * sin(phi2)) + ((cos(phi1) * cos(phi2)) * cos(lambda1 - lambda2))) * R;
}

↓

double code(double R, double lambda1, double lambda2, double phi1, double phi2) {
	return R * acos((sin(phi1) * sin(phi2)) + ((cos(phi1) * cos(phi2)) * ((cos(lambda1) * cos(lambda2)) + log(exp(sin(lambda1) * sin(lambda2))))));
}

Error

Bits error versus R

Bits error versus lambda1

Bits error versus lambda2

Bits error versus phi1

Bits error versus phi2

Alternatives

Alternative 1
Error	3.8
Cost	58688

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

Alternative 2
Error	10.8
Cost	52930

\[\begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\phi_2 \leq -7850085348.779381:\\ \;\;\;\;R \cdot \cos^{-1} \left(\sin \phi_1 \cdot \sin \phi_2 + \left(\cos \phi_1 \cdot \cos \phi_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)\right)\\ \mathbf{elif}\;\phi_2 \leq 28.070317719945916:\\ \;\;\;\;R \cdot \cos^{-1} \left(\left(\cos \phi_1 \cdot \cos \phi_2\right) \cdot \left(\cos \lambda_1 \cdot \cos \lambda_2 + \sin \lambda_1 \cdot \sin \lambda_2\right) + \sin \phi_1 \cdot \phi_2\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;R \cdot e^{\log \cos^{-1} \left(\sin \phi_1 \cdot \sin \phi_2 + \left(\cos \phi_1 \cdot \cos \phi_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)\right)}\\ \end{array}\]

Alternative 3
Error	17.3
Cost	39232

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

Alternative 4
Error	17.4
Cost	39432

\[\begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\lambda_2 \leq -2.43883419076639 \cdot 10^{-07} \lor \neg \left(\lambda_2 \leq 0.0001535208315414715\right):\\ \;\;\;\;R \cdot \cos^{-1} \left(\sin \phi_1 \cdot \sin \phi_2 + \left(\cos \phi_1 \cdot \cos \phi_2\right) \cdot \cos \lambda_2\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;R \cdot \cos^{-1} \left(\sin \phi_1 \cdot \sin \phi_2 + \left(\cos \phi_1 \cdot \cos \phi_2\right) \cdot \cos \lambda_1\right)\\ \end{array}\]

Alternative 5
Error	23.7
Cost	39432

\[\begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\phi_1 \leq -1.3889406518138017 \cdot 10^{+18} \lor \neg \left(\phi_1 \leq 4.233722665116379 \cdot 10^{-24}\right):\\ \;\;\;\;R \cdot \cos^{-1} \left(\sin \phi_1 \cdot \sin \phi_2 + \left(\cos \phi_1 \cdot \cos \phi_2\right) \cdot \cos \lambda_1\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;R \cdot \cos^{-1} \left(\left(\cos \phi_1 \cdot \cos \phi_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) + \phi_1 \cdot \sin \phi_2\right)\\ \end{array}\]

Alternative 6
Error	30.4
Cost	33160

\[\begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\phi_1 \leq -6.925603082865548 \cdot 10^{+53} \lor \neg \left(\phi_1 \leq 5131482247913.722\right):\\ \;\;\;\;R \cdot \cos^{-1} \left(\left(\cos \phi_1 \cdot \cos \phi_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) + \sin \phi_1 \cdot \phi_2\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;R \cdot \cos^{-1} \left(\left(\cos \phi_1 \cdot \cos \phi_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) + \phi_1 \cdot \sin \phi_2\right)\\ \end{array}\]

Alternative 7
Error	36.6
Cost	32832

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

Alternative 8
Error	61.2
Cost	64

\[0\]

Alternative 9
Error	61.7
Cost	64

\[1\]

Derivation

1. Initial program 17.3

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

3. Applied cos-diff_binary64_215 3.8

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

5. Applied add-log-exp_binary64_117 3.8

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

6. Simplified 3.8

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

7. Final simplification 3.8

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2021044 
(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))