\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({a}^{4} + \left(2 \cdot {\left(a \cdot b\right)}^{2} + {b}^{4}\right)\right) + \mathsf{fma}\left(4, \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right), -1\right)
(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 a 4.0) (+ (* 2.0 (pow (* a b) 2.0)) (pow b 4.0))) (fma 4.0 (fma (* a a) (- 1.0 a) (* (* b b) (+ a 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(a, 4.0) + ((2.0 * pow((a * b), 2.0)) + pow(b, 4.0))) + fma(4.0, fma((a * a), (1.0 - a), ((b * b) * (a + 3.0))), -1.0);
}



Bits error versus a



Bits error versus b
Initial program 0.2
Simplified0.0
Taylor expanded in a around 0 0.0
Applied pow-prod-down_binary640.0
Final simplification0.0
herbie shell --seed 2021339
(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))