Average Error: 16.7 → 3.9
Time: 20.0s
Precision: binary64
\[\cos^{-1} \left(\sin \phi_1 \cdot \sin \phi_2 + \left(\cos \phi_1 \cdot \cos \phi_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)\right) \cdot R \]
↓
\[R \cdot \cos^{-1} \left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\sin \phi_1, \sin \phi_2, \left(\cos \phi_1 \cdot \cos \phi_2\right) \cdot \left(\cos \lambda_1 \cdot \cos \lambda_2 + \log \left(e^{\sin \lambda_1 \cdot \sin \lambda_2}\right)\right)\right)\right) \]
\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(\mathsf{fma}\left(\sin \phi_1, \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)\right)

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

Derivation

  1. Initial program 16.7

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

  2. Simplified16.7

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\cos^{-1} \left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\sin \phi_1, \sin \phi_2, \left(\cos \phi_1 \cdot \cos \phi_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)\right)\right) \cdot R} \]

  3. Applied cos-diff_binary643.9

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

  4. Applied add-log-exp_binary643.9

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

  5. Applied *-commutative_binary643.9

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

  6. Final simplification3.9

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2022061 
(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))