\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1
\left(\left(\left({b}^{4} + 2 \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right)\right)\right)\right) + {a}^{4}\right) + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot 3\right)\right) - 1
(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (- (+ (pow (+ (* a a) (* b b)) 2.0) (* 4.0 (+ (* (* a a) (- 1.0 a)) (* (* b b) (+ 3.0 a))))) 1.0))
(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (- (+ (+ (+ (pow b 4.0) (* 2.0 (* a (* a (* b b))))) (pow a 4.0)) (* 4.0 (+ (* (* a a) (- 1.0 a)) (* (* b b) 3.0)))) 1.0))
double code(double a, double b) {
return (pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + (4.0 * (((a * a) * (1.0 - a)) + ((b * b) * (3.0 + a))))) - 1.0;
}
double code(double a, double b) {
return (((pow(b, 4.0) + (2.0 * (a * (a * (b * b))))) + pow(a, 4.0)) + (4.0 * (((a * a) * (1.0 - a)) + ((b * b) * 3.0)))) - 1.0;
}



Bits error versus a



Bits error versus b
Results
Initial program 0.2
Taylor expanded around 0 0.0
Simplified0.0
Taylor expanded around 0 0.1
Simplified0.1
Final simplification0.1
herbie shell --seed 2021204
(FPCore (a b)
:name "Bouland and Aaronson, Equation (24)"
:precision binary64
(- (+ (pow (+ (* a a) (* b b)) 2.0) (* 4.0 (+ (* (* a a) (- 1.0 a)) (* (* b b) (+ 3.0 a))))) 1.0))