Bouland and Aaronson, Equation (24)

Percentage Accurate: 74.0% → 98.2%

Time: 5.8s

Alternatives: 7

Speedup: 0.5×

• 60.9% of points produce a very large (infinite) output. You may want to add a precondition.

Specification

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \end{array} \]

FPCore

(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))

C

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;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    code = ((((a * a) + (b * b)) ** 2.0d0) + (4.0d0 * (((a * a) * (1.0d0 - a)) + ((b * b) * (3.0d0 + a))))) - 1.0d0
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return (Math.pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + (4.0 * (((a * a) * (1.0 - a)) + ((b * b) * (3.0 + a))))) - 1.0;
}

Python

def code(a, b):
	return (math.pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + (4.0 * (((a * a) * (1.0 - a)) + ((b * b) * (3.0 + a))))) - 1.0

Julia

function code(a, b)
	return Float64(Float64((Float64(Float64(a * a) + Float64(b * b)) ^ 2.0) + Float64(4.0 * Float64(Float64(Float64(a * a) * Float64(1.0 - a)) + Float64(Float64(b * b) * Float64(3.0 + a))))) - 1.0)
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = ((((a * a) + (b * b)) ^ 2.0) + (4.0 * (((a * a) * (1.0 - a)) + ((b * b) * (3.0 + a))))) - 1.0;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := N[(N[(N[Power[N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] + N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], 2.0], $MachinePrecision] + N[(4.0 * N[(N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * N[(1.0 - a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] * N[(3.0 + a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - 1.0), $MachinePrecision]

Initial Program: 74.0% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \end{array} \]

FPCore

(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))

C

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;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    code = ((((a * a) + (b * b)) ** 2.0d0) + (4.0d0 * (((a * a) * (1.0d0 - a)) + ((b * b) * (3.0d0 + a))))) - 1.0d0
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return (Math.pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + (4.0 * (((a * a) * (1.0 - a)) + ((b * b) * (3.0 + a))))) - 1.0;
}

Python

def code(a, b):
	return (math.pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + (4.0 * (((a * a) * (1.0 - a)) + ((b * b) * (3.0 + a))))) - 1.0

Julia

function code(a, b)
	return Float64(Float64((Float64(Float64(a * a) + Float64(b * b)) ^ 2.0) + Float64(4.0 * Float64(Float64(Float64(a * a) * Float64(1.0 - a)) + Float64(Float64(b * b) * Float64(3.0 + a))))) - 1.0)
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = ((((a * a) + (b * b)) ^ 2.0) + (4.0 * (((a * a) * (1.0 - a)) + ((b * b) * (3.0 + a))))) - 1.0;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := N[(N[(N[Power[N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] + N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], 2.0], $MachinePrecision] + N[(4.0 * N[(N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * N[(1.0 - a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] * N[(3.0 + a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - 1.0), $MachinePrecision]

Alternative 1: 98.2% accurate, 0.2× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) + -1 \leq \infty:\\ \;\;\;\;\left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, a \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a \cdot b\right)\right), {a}^{4}\right)\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) + -1\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;{a}^{3} \cdot \left(a + -4\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<=
      (+
       (+
        (pow (+ (* a a) (* b b)) 2.0)
        (* 4.0 (+ (* (* a a) (- 1.0 a)) (* (* b b) (+ a 3.0)))))
       -1.0)
      INFINITY)
   (+
    (+ (pow b 4.0) (fma 2.0 (* a (* b (* a b))) (pow a 4.0)))
    (+ (* 4.0 (fma (* a a) (- 1.0 a) (* b (* b (+ a 3.0))))) -1.0))
   (* (pow a 3.0) (+ a -4.0))))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (((pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + (4.0 * (((a * a) * (1.0 - a)) + ((b * b) * (a + 3.0))))) + -1.0) <= ((double) INFINITY)) {
		tmp = (pow(b, 4.0) + fma(2.0, (a * (b * (a * b))), pow(a, 4.0))) + ((4.0 * fma((a * a), (1.0 - a), (b * (b * (a + 3.0))))) + -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = pow(a, 3.0) * (a + -4.0);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(Float64((Float64(Float64(a * a) + Float64(b * b)) ^ 2.0) + Float64(4.0 * Float64(Float64(Float64(a * a) * Float64(1.0 - a)) + Float64(Float64(b * b) * Float64(a + 3.0))))) + -1.0) <= Inf)
		tmp = Float64(Float64((b ^ 4.0) + fma(2.0, Float64(a * Float64(b * Float64(a * b))), (a ^ 4.0))) + Float64(Float64(4.0 * fma(Float64(a * a), Float64(1.0 - a), Float64(b * Float64(b * Float64(a + 3.0))))) + -1.0));
	else
		tmp = Float64((a ^ 3.0) * Float64(a + -4.0));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[(N[(N[Power[N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] + N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], 2.0], $MachinePrecision] + N[(4.0 * N[(N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * N[(1.0 - a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] * N[(a + 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + -1.0), $MachinePrecision], Infinity], N[(N[(N[Power[b, 4.0], $MachinePrecision] + N[(2.0 * N[(a * N[(b * N[(a * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[Power[a, 4.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[(N[(4.0 * N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * N[(1.0 - a), $MachinePrecision] + N[(b * N[(b * N[(a + 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + -1.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[Power[a, 3.0], $MachinePrecision] * N[(a + -4.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (-.f64 (+.f64 (pow.f64 (+.f64 (*.f64 a a) (*.f64 b b)) 2) (*.f64 4 (+.f64 (*.f64 (*.f64 a a) (-.f64 1 a)) (*.f64 (*.f64 b b) (+.f64 3 a))))) 1) < +inf.0

   1. Initial program 99.9%

      \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate--l+ 99.9%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right)} \]

      2. fma-def 99.9%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, b \cdot b\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      3. sqr-neg 99.9%

         \[\leadsto {\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \color{blue}{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)}\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      4. fma-def 99.9%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      5. distribute-rgt-in 99.9%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\color{blue}{\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right)\right) \cdot 4 + \left(\left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4\right)} - 1\right) \]

      6. sqr-neg 99.9%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right)\right) \cdot 4 + \left(\color{blue}{\left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)} \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4\right) - 1\right) \]

      7. distribute-rgt-in 99.9%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\color{blue}{4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right)} - 1\right) \]

      8. fma-def 99.9%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      9. sqr-neg 99.9%

         \[\leadsto {\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \color{blue}{b \cdot b}\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

   3. Simplified 99.9%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, b \cdot b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right)} \]

   4. Taylor expanded in a around 0 89.4%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot {b}^{2}\right) + \left({a}^{4} + {b}^{4}\right)\right)} + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]
   5. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate-+r+ 89.4%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\left(2 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot {b}^{2}\right) + {a}^{4}\right) + {b}^{4}\right)} + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      2. +-commutative 89.4%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left({b}^{4} + \left(2 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot {b}^{2}\right) + {a}^{4}\right)\right)} + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      3. fma-def 89.4%

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(2, {a}^{2} \cdot {b}^{2}, {a}^{4}\right)}\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      4. unpow2 89.4%

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot {b}^{2}, {a}^{4}\right)\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      5. unpow2 89.4%

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, \left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(b \cdot b\right)}, {a}^{4}\right)\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      6. swap-sqr 100.0%

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot b\right)}, {a}^{4}\right)\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      7. unpow2 100.0%

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, \color{blue}{{\left(a \cdot b\right)}^{2}}, {a}^{4}\right)\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      8. *-commutative 100.0%

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, {\color{blue}{\left(b \cdot a\right)}}^{2}, {a}^{4}\right)\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

   6. Simplified 100.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, {\left(b \cdot a\right)}^{2}, {a}^{4}\right)\right)} + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. unpow2 100.0%

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, \color{blue}{\left(b \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(b \cdot a\right)}, {a}^{4}\right)\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      2. associate-*r* 100.0%

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, \color{blue}{\left(\left(b \cdot a\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot a}, {a}^{4}\right)\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

   8. Applied egg-rr 100.0%

      \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, \color{blue}{\left(\left(b \cdot a\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot a}, {a}^{4}\right)\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

   if +inf.0 < (-.f64 (+.f64 (pow.f64 (+.f64 (*.f64 a a) (*.f64 b b)) 2) (*.f64 4 (+.f64 (*.f64 (*.f64 a a) (-.f64 1 a)) (*.f64 (*.f64 b b) (+.f64 3 a))))) 1)

   1. Initial program 0.0%

      \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate--l+ 0.0%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right)} \]

      2. fma-def 0.0%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, b \cdot b\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      3. sqr-neg 0.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \color{blue}{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)}\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      4. fma-def 0.0%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      5. distribute-rgt-in 0.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\color{blue}{\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right)\right) \cdot 4 + \left(\left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4\right)} - 1\right) \]

      6. sqr-neg 0.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right)\right) \cdot 4 + \left(\color{blue}{\left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)} \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4\right) - 1\right) \]

      7. distribute-rgt-in 0.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\color{blue}{4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right)} - 1\right) \]

      8. fma-def 0.0%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      9. sqr-neg 0.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \color{blue}{b \cdot b}\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

   3. Simplified 5.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, b \cdot b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right)} \]

   4. Taylor expanded in a around 0 5.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot {b}^{2}\right) + \left({a}^{4} + {b}^{4}\right)\right)} + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]
   5. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate-+r+ 5.3%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\left(2 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot {b}^{2}\right) + {a}^{4}\right) + {b}^{4}\right)} + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      2. +-commutative 5.3%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left({b}^{4} + \left(2 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot {b}^{2}\right) + {a}^{4}\right)\right)} + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      3. fma-def 5.3%

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(2, {a}^{2} \cdot {b}^{2}, {a}^{4}\right)}\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      4. unpow2 5.3%

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot {b}^{2}, {a}^{4}\right)\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      5. unpow2 5.3%

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, \left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(b \cdot b\right)}, {a}^{4}\right)\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      6. swap-sqr 5.3%

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot b\right)}, {a}^{4}\right)\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      7. unpow2 5.3%

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, \color{blue}{{\left(a \cdot b\right)}^{2}}, {a}^{4}\right)\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      8. *-commutative 5.3%

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, {\color{blue}{\left(b \cdot a\right)}}^{2}, {a}^{4}\right)\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

   6. Simplified 5.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, {\left(b \cdot a\right)}^{2}, {a}^{4}\right)\right)} + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. unpow2 5.3%

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, \color{blue}{\left(b \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(b \cdot a\right)}, {a}^{4}\right)\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      2. associate-*r* 5.3%

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, \color{blue}{\left(\left(b \cdot a\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot a}, {a}^{4}\right)\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

   8. Applied egg-rr 5.3%

      \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, \color{blue}{\left(\left(b \cdot a\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot a}, {a}^{4}\right)\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

   9. Taylor expanded in a around inf 33.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-4 \cdot {a}^{3} + {a}^{4}} \]
   10. Step-by-step derivation

       1. +-commutative 33.0%

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{a}^{4} + -4 \cdot {a}^{3}} \]

       2. metadata-eval 33.0%

          \[\leadsto {a}^{\color{blue}{\left(3 + 1\right)}} + -4 \cdot {a}^{3} \]

       3. pow-plus 33.0%

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{a}^{3} \cdot a} + -4 \cdot {a}^{3} \]

       4. *-commutative 33.0%

          \[\leadsto {a}^{3} \cdot a + \color{blue}{{a}^{3} \cdot -4} \]

       5. distribute-lft-out 97.5%

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{a}^{3} \cdot \left(a + -4\right)} \]

   11. Simplified 97.5%

       \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{a}^{3} \cdot \left(a + -4\right)} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 99.3%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) + -1 \leq \infty:\\ \;\;\;\;\left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, a \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a \cdot b\right)\right), {a}^{4}\right)\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) + -1\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;{a}^{3} \cdot \left(a + -4\right)\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 2: 98.1% accurate, 0.5× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) + -1\\ \mathbf{if}\;t_0 \leq \infty:\\ \;\;\;\;t_0\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;{a}^{3} \cdot \left(a + -4\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0
         (+
          (+
           (pow (+ (* a a) (* b b)) 2.0)
           (* 4.0 (+ (* (* a a) (- 1.0 a)) (* (* b b) (+ a 3.0)))))
          -1.0)))
   (if (<= t_0 INFINITY) t_0 (* (pow a 3.0) (+ a -4.0)))))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double t_0 = (pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + (4.0 * (((a * a) * (1.0 - a)) + ((b * b) * (a + 3.0))))) + -1.0;
	double tmp;
	if (t_0 <= ((double) INFINITY)) {
		tmp = t_0;
	} else {
		tmp = pow(a, 3.0) * (a + -4.0);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Java

public static double code(double a, double b) {
	double t_0 = (Math.pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + (4.0 * (((a * a) * (1.0 - a)) + ((b * b) * (a + 3.0))))) + -1.0;
	double tmp;
	if (t_0 <= Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY) {
		tmp = t_0;
	} else {
		tmp = Math.pow(a, 3.0) * (a + -4.0);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b):
	t_0 = (math.pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + (4.0 * (((a * a) * (1.0 - a)) + ((b * b) * (a + 3.0))))) + -1.0
	tmp = 0
	if t_0 <= math.inf:
		tmp = t_0
	else:
		tmp = math.pow(a, 3.0) * (a + -4.0)
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b)
	t_0 = Float64(Float64((Float64(Float64(a * a) + Float64(b * b)) ^ 2.0) + Float64(4.0 * Float64(Float64(Float64(a * a) * Float64(1.0 - a)) + Float64(Float64(b * b) * Float64(a + 3.0))))) + -1.0)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (t_0 <= Inf)
		tmp = t_0;
	else
		tmp = Float64((a ^ 3.0) * Float64(a + -4.0));
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b)
	t_0 = ((((a * a) + (b * b)) ^ 2.0) + (4.0 * (((a * a) * (1.0 - a)) + ((b * b) * (a + 3.0))))) + -1.0;
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (t_0 <= Inf)
		tmp = t_0;
	else
		tmp = (a ^ 3.0) * (a + -4.0);
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := Block[{t$95$0 = N[(N[(N[Power[N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] + N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], 2.0], $MachinePrecision] + N[(4.0 * N[(N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * N[(1.0 - a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] * N[(a + 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + -1.0), $MachinePrecision]}, If[LessEqual[t$95$0, Infinity], t$95$0, N[(N[Power[a, 3.0], $MachinePrecision] * N[(a + -4.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (-.f64 (+.f64 (pow.f64 (+.f64 (*.f64 a a) (*.f64 b b)) 2) (*.f64 4 (+.f64 (*.f64 (*.f64 a a) (-.f64 1 a)) (*.f64 (*.f64 b b) (+.f64 3 a))))) 1) < +inf.0

   1. Initial program 99.9%

      \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]

   if +inf.0 < (-.f64 (+.f64 (pow.f64 (+.f64 (*.f64 a a) (*.f64 b b)) 2) (*.f64 4 (+.f64 (*.f64 (*.f64 a a) (-.f64 1 a)) (*.f64 (*.f64 b b) (+.f64 3 a))))) 1)

   1. Initial program 0.0%

      \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate--l+ 0.0%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right)} \]

      2. fma-def 0.0%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, b \cdot b\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      3. sqr-neg 0.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \color{blue}{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)}\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      4. fma-def 0.0%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      5. distribute-rgt-in 0.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\color{blue}{\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right)\right) \cdot 4 + \left(\left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4\right)} - 1\right) \]

      6. sqr-neg 0.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right)\right) \cdot 4 + \left(\color{blue}{\left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)} \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4\right) - 1\right) \]

      7. distribute-rgt-in 0.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\color{blue}{4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right)} - 1\right) \]

      8. fma-def 0.0%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      9. sqr-neg 0.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \color{blue}{b \cdot b}\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

   3. Simplified 5.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, b \cdot b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right)} \]

   4. Taylor expanded in a around 0 5.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot {b}^{2}\right) + \left({a}^{4} + {b}^{4}\right)\right)} + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]
   5. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate-+r+ 5.3%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\left(2 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot {b}^{2}\right) + {a}^{4}\right) + {b}^{4}\right)} + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      2. +-commutative 5.3%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left({b}^{4} + \left(2 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot {b}^{2}\right) + {a}^{4}\right)\right)} + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      3. fma-def 5.3%

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(2, {a}^{2} \cdot {b}^{2}, {a}^{4}\right)}\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      4. unpow2 5.3%

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot {b}^{2}, {a}^{4}\right)\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      5. unpow2 5.3%

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, \left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(b \cdot b\right)}, {a}^{4}\right)\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      6. swap-sqr 5.3%

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot b\right)}, {a}^{4}\right)\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      7. unpow2 5.3%

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, \color{blue}{{\left(a \cdot b\right)}^{2}}, {a}^{4}\right)\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      8. *-commutative 5.3%

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, {\color{blue}{\left(b \cdot a\right)}}^{2}, {a}^{4}\right)\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

   6. Simplified 5.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, {\left(b \cdot a\right)}^{2}, {a}^{4}\right)\right)} + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. unpow2 5.3%

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, \color{blue}{\left(b \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(b \cdot a\right)}, {a}^{4}\right)\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      2. associate-*r* 5.3%

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, \color{blue}{\left(\left(b \cdot a\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot a}, {a}^{4}\right)\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

   8. Applied egg-rr 5.3%

      \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, \color{blue}{\left(\left(b \cdot a\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot a}, {a}^{4}\right)\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

   9. Taylor expanded in a around inf 33.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-4 \cdot {a}^{3} + {a}^{4}} \]
   10. Step-by-step derivation

       1. +-commutative 33.0%

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{a}^{4} + -4 \cdot {a}^{3}} \]

       2. metadata-eval 33.0%

          \[\leadsto {a}^{\color{blue}{\left(3 + 1\right)}} + -4 \cdot {a}^{3} \]

       3. pow-plus 33.0%

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{a}^{3} \cdot a} + -4 \cdot {a}^{3} \]

       4. *-commutative 33.0%

          \[\leadsto {a}^{3} \cdot a + \color{blue}{{a}^{3} \cdot -4} \]

       5. distribute-lft-out 97.5%

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{a}^{3} \cdot \left(a + -4\right)} \]

   11. Simplified 97.5%

       \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{a}^{3} \cdot \left(a + -4\right)} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 99.2%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) + -1 \leq \infty:\\ \;\;\;\;\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) + -1\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;{a}^{3} \cdot \left(a + -4\right)\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 3: 62.9% accurate, 1.2× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 5.2 \cdot 10^{-280}:\\ \;\;\;\;{a}^{3} \cdot \left(a + -4\right)\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 1.95 \cdot 10^{-9}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(1 + a \cdot 2\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot 2 + -1\right)\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 1400000000:\\ \;\;\;\;{a}^{4}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;{b}^{4}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b 5.2e-280)
   (* (pow a 3.0) (+ a -4.0))
   (if (<= b 1.95e-9)
     (* (+ 1.0 (* a 2.0)) (+ (* a 2.0) -1.0))
     (if (<= b 1400000000.0) (pow a 4.0) (pow b 4.0)))))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 5.2e-280) {
		tmp = pow(a, 3.0) * (a + -4.0);
	} else if (b <= 1.95e-9) {
		tmp = (1.0 + (a * 2.0)) * ((a * 2.0) + -1.0);
	} else if (b <= 1400000000.0) {
		tmp = pow(a, 4.0);
	} else {
		tmp = pow(b, 4.0);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8) :: tmp
    if (b <= 5.2d-280) then
        tmp = (a ** 3.0d0) * (a + (-4.0d0))
    else if (b <= 1.95d-9) then
        tmp = (1.0d0 + (a * 2.0d0)) * ((a * 2.0d0) + (-1.0d0))
    else if (b <= 1400000000.0d0) then
        tmp = a ** 4.0d0
    else
        tmp = b ** 4.0d0
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 5.2e-280) {
		tmp = Math.pow(a, 3.0) * (a + -4.0);
	} else if (b <= 1.95e-9) {
		tmp = (1.0 + (a * 2.0)) * ((a * 2.0) + -1.0);
	} else if (b <= 1400000000.0) {
		tmp = Math.pow(a, 4.0);
	} else {
		tmp = Math.pow(b, 4.0);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= 5.2e-280:
		tmp = math.pow(a, 3.0) * (a + -4.0)
	elif b <= 1.95e-9:
		tmp = (1.0 + (a * 2.0)) * ((a * 2.0) + -1.0)
	elif b <= 1400000000.0:
		tmp = math.pow(a, 4.0)
	else:
		tmp = math.pow(b, 4.0)
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= 5.2e-280)
		tmp = Float64((a ^ 3.0) * Float64(a + -4.0));
	elseif (b <= 1.95e-9)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(1.0 + Float64(a * 2.0)) * Float64(Float64(a * 2.0) + -1.0));
	elseif (b <= 1400000000.0)
		tmp = a ^ 4.0;
	else
		tmp = b ^ 4.0;
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= 5.2e-280)
		tmp = (a ^ 3.0) * (a + -4.0);
	elseif (b <= 1.95e-9)
		tmp = (1.0 + (a * 2.0)) * ((a * 2.0) + -1.0);
	elseif (b <= 1400000000.0)
		tmp = a ^ 4.0;
	else
		tmp = b ^ 4.0;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[b, 5.2e-280], N[(N[Power[a, 3.0], $MachinePrecision] * N[(a + -4.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 1.95e-9], N[(N[(1.0 + N[(a * 2.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * N[(N[(a * 2.0), $MachinePrecision] + -1.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 1400000000.0], N[Power[a, 4.0], $MachinePrecision], N[Power[b, 4.0], $MachinePrecision]]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 4 regimes

2. if b < 5.2e-280

   1. Initial program 70.0%

      \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate--l+ 70.0%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right)} \]

      2. fma-def 70.0%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, b \cdot b\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      3. sqr-neg 70.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \color{blue}{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)}\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      4. fma-def 70.0%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      5. distribute-rgt-in 70.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\color{blue}{\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right)\right) \cdot 4 + \left(\left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4\right)} - 1\right) \]

      6. sqr-neg 70.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right)\right) \cdot 4 + \left(\color{blue}{\left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)} \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4\right) - 1\right) \]

      7. distribute-rgt-in 70.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\color{blue}{4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right)} - 1\right) \]

      8. fma-def 70.0%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      9. sqr-neg 70.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \color{blue}{b \cdot b}\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

   3. Simplified 71.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, b \cdot b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right)} \]

   4. Taylor expanded in a around 0 63.9%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot {b}^{2}\right) + \left({a}^{4} + {b}^{4}\right)\right)} + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]
   5. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate-+r+ 63.9%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\left(2 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot {b}^{2}\right) + {a}^{4}\right) + {b}^{4}\right)} + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      2. +-commutative 63.9%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left({b}^{4} + \left(2 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot {b}^{2}\right) + {a}^{4}\right)\right)} + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      3. fma-def 63.9%

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(2, {a}^{2} \cdot {b}^{2}, {a}^{4}\right)}\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      4. unpow2 63.9%

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot {b}^{2}, {a}^{4}\right)\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      5. unpow2 63.9%

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, \left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(b \cdot b\right)}, {a}^{4}\right)\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      6. swap-sqr 71.4%

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot b\right)}, {a}^{4}\right)\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      7. unpow2 71.4%

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, \color{blue}{{\left(a \cdot b\right)}^{2}}, {a}^{4}\right)\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      8. *-commutative 71.4%

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, {\color{blue}{\left(b \cdot a\right)}}^{2}, {a}^{4}\right)\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

   6. Simplified 71.4%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, {\left(b \cdot a\right)}^{2}, {a}^{4}\right)\right)} + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. unpow2 71.4%

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, \color{blue}{\left(b \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(b \cdot a\right)}, {a}^{4}\right)\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      2. associate-*r* 71.4%

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, \color{blue}{\left(\left(b \cdot a\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot a}, {a}^{4}\right)\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

   8. Applied egg-rr 71.4%

      \[\leadsto \left({b}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(2, \color{blue}{\left(\left(b \cdot a\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot a}, {a}^{4}\right)\right) + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

   9. Taylor expanded in a around inf 35.4%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-4 \cdot {a}^{3} + {a}^{4}} \]
   10. Step-by-step derivation

       1. +-commutative 35.4%

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{a}^{4} + -4 \cdot {a}^{3}} \]

       2. metadata-eval 35.4%

          \[\leadsto {a}^{\color{blue}{\left(3 + 1\right)}} + -4 \cdot {a}^{3} \]

       3. pow-plus 35.3%

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{a}^{3} \cdot a} + -4 \cdot {a}^{3} \]

       4. *-commutative 35.3%

          \[\leadsto {a}^{3} \cdot a + \color{blue}{{a}^{3} \cdot -4} \]

       5. distribute-lft-out 52.3%

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{a}^{3} \cdot \left(a + -4\right)} \]

   11. Simplified 52.3%

       \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{a}^{3} \cdot \left(a + -4\right)} \]

   if 5.2e-280 < b < 1.9500000000000001e-9

   1. Initial program 80.3%

      \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate--l+ 80.3%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right)} \]

      2. fma-def 80.3%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, b \cdot b\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      3. sqr-neg 80.3%

         \[\leadsto {\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \color{blue}{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)}\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      4. fma-def 80.3%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      5. distribute-rgt-in 80.3%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\color{blue}{\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right)\right) \cdot 4 + \left(\left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4\right)} - 1\right) \]

      6. sqr-neg 80.3%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right)\right) \cdot 4 + \left(\color{blue}{\left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)} \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4\right) - 1\right) \]

      7. distribute-rgt-in 80.3%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\color{blue}{4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right)} - 1\right) \]

      8. fma-def 80.3%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      9. sqr-neg 80.3%

         \[\leadsto {\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \color{blue}{b \cdot b}\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

   3. Simplified 80.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, b \cdot b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right)} \]

   4. Taylor expanded in b around 0 80.4%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in a around 0 79.9%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{4 \cdot {a}^{2}} - 1 \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

      1. pow2 79.9%

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

      2. add-sqr-sqrt 79.9%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{4 \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot \sqrt{4 \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right)}} - 1 \]

      3. difference-of-sqr-1 79.9%

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

      4. sqrt-prod 79.9%

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

      5. metadata-eval 79.9%

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

      6. sqrt-prod 43.7%

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

      7. add-sqr-sqrt 67.3%

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

      8. sqrt-prod 67.3%

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

      9. metadata-eval 67.3%

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

      10. sqrt-prod 43.7%

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

      11. add-sqr-sqrt 79.9%

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

   7. Applied egg-rr 79.9%

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

   if 1.9500000000000001e-9 < b < 1.4e9

   1. Initial program 20.0%

      \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate--l+ 20.0%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right)} \]

      2. fma-def 20.0%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, b \cdot b\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      3. sqr-neg 20.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \color{blue}{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)}\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      4. fma-def 20.0%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      5. distribute-rgt-in 20.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\color{blue}{\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right)\right) \cdot 4 + \left(\left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4\right)} - 1\right) \]

      6. sqr-neg 20.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right)\right) \cdot 4 + \left(\color{blue}{\left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)} \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4\right) - 1\right) \]

      7. distribute-rgt-in 20.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\color{blue}{4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right)} - 1\right) \]

      8. fma-def 20.0%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      9. sqr-neg 20.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \color{blue}{b \cdot b}\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

   3. Simplified 20.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, b \cdot b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right)} \]

   4. Taylor expanded in a around inf 100.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{a}^{4}} \]

   if 1.4e9 < b

   1. Initial program 66.0%

      \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate--l+ 66.0%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right)} \]

      2. fma-def 66.0%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, b \cdot b\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      3. sqr-neg 66.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \color{blue}{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)}\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      4. fma-def 66.0%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      5. distribute-rgt-in 66.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\color{blue}{\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right)\right) \cdot 4 + \left(\left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4\right)} - 1\right) \]

      6. sqr-neg 66.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right)\right) \cdot 4 + \left(\color{blue}{\left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)} \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4\right) - 1\right) \]

      7. distribute-rgt-in 66.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\color{blue}{4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right)} - 1\right) \]

      8. fma-def 66.0%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      9. sqr-neg 66.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \color{blue}{b \cdot b}\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

   3. Simplified 69.8%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, b \cdot b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right)} \]

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 96.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{b}^{4}} \]
3. Recombined 4 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 67.9%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 5.2 \cdot 10^{-280}:\\ \;\;\;\;{a}^{3} \cdot \left(a + -4\right)\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 1.95 \cdot 10^{-9}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(1 + a \cdot 2\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot 2 + -1\right)\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 1400000000:\\ \;\;\;\;{a}^{4}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;{b}^{4}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 4: 66.8% accurate, 1.2× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;a \leq -3.5 \cdot 10^{-13} \lor \neg \left(a \leq 1.3 \cdot 10^{-18}\right):\\ \;\;\;\;{a}^{4}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-1\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (or (<= a -3.5e-13) (not (<= a 1.3e-18))) (pow a 4.0) -1.0))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if ((a <= -3.5e-13) || !(a <= 1.3e-18)) {
		tmp = pow(a, 4.0);
	} else {
		tmp = -1.0;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8) :: tmp
    if ((a <= (-3.5d-13)) .or. (.not. (a <= 1.3d-18))) then
        tmp = a ** 4.0d0
    else
        tmp = -1.0d0
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if ((a <= -3.5e-13) || !(a <= 1.3e-18)) {
		tmp = Math.pow(a, 4.0);
	} else {
		tmp = -1.0;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b):
	tmp = 0
	if (a <= -3.5e-13) or not (a <= 1.3e-18):
		tmp = math.pow(a, 4.0)
	else:
		tmp = -1.0
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if ((a <= -3.5e-13) || !(a <= 1.3e-18))
		tmp = a ^ 4.0;
	else
		tmp = -1.0;
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if ((a <= -3.5e-13) || ~((a <= 1.3e-18)))
		tmp = a ^ 4.0;
	else
		tmp = -1.0;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[Or[LessEqual[a, -3.5e-13], N[Not[LessEqual[a, 1.3e-18]], $MachinePrecision]], N[Power[a, 4.0], $MachinePrecision], -1.0]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if a < -3.5000000000000002e-13 or 1.3e-18 < a

   1. Initial program 46.0%

      \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate--l+ 46.0%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right)} \]

      2. fma-def 46.0%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, b \cdot b\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      3. sqr-neg 46.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \color{blue}{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)}\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      4. fma-def 46.0%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      5. distribute-rgt-in 46.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\color{blue}{\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right)\right) \cdot 4 + \left(\left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4\right)} - 1\right) \]

      6. sqr-neg 46.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right)\right) \cdot 4 + \left(\color{blue}{\left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)} \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4\right) - 1\right) \]

      7. distribute-rgt-in 46.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\color{blue}{4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right)} - 1\right) \]

      8. fma-def 46.0%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      9. sqr-neg 46.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \color{blue}{b \cdot b}\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

   3. Simplified 48.8%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, b \cdot b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right)} \]

   4. Taylor expanded in a around inf 88.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{a}^{4}} \]

   if -3.5000000000000002e-13 < a < 1.3e-18

   1. Initial program 99.9%

      \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate--l+ 99.9%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right)} \]

      2. fma-def 99.9%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, b \cdot b\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      3. sqr-neg 99.9%

         \[\leadsto {\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \color{blue}{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)}\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      4. fma-def 99.9%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      5. distribute-rgt-in 99.9%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\color{blue}{\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right)\right) \cdot 4 + \left(\left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4\right)} - 1\right) \]

      6. sqr-neg 99.9%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right)\right) \cdot 4 + \left(\color{blue}{\left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)} \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4\right) - 1\right) \]

      7. distribute-rgt-in 99.9%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\color{blue}{4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right)} - 1\right) \]

      8. fma-def 99.9%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      9. sqr-neg 99.9%

         \[\leadsto {\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \color{blue}{b \cdot b}\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

   3. Simplified 99.9%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, b \cdot b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right)} \]

   4. Taylor expanded in b around 0 52.5%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in a around 0 52.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{4 \cdot {a}^{2}} - 1 \]

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0 52.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 72.1%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;a \leq -3.5 \cdot 10^{-13} \lor \neg \left(a \leq 1.3 \cdot 10^{-18}\right):\\ \;\;\;\;{a}^{4}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-1\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 5: 66.3% accurate, 1.2× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 3.5 \cdot 10^{-11}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(1 + a \cdot 2\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot 2 + -1\right)\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 4800000000:\\ \;\;\;\;{a}^{4}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;{b}^{4}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b 3.5e-11)
   (* (+ 1.0 (* a 2.0)) (+ (* a 2.0) -1.0))
   (if (<= b 4800000000.0) (pow a 4.0) (pow b 4.0))))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 3.5e-11) {
		tmp = (1.0 + (a * 2.0)) * ((a * 2.0) + -1.0);
	} else if (b <= 4800000000.0) {
		tmp = pow(a, 4.0);
	} else {
		tmp = pow(b, 4.0);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8) :: tmp
    if (b <= 3.5d-11) then
        tmp = (1.0d0 + (a * 2.0d0)) * ((a * 2.0d0) + (-1.0d0))
    else if (b <= 4800000000.0d0) then
        tmp = a ** 4.0d0
    else
        tmp = b ** 4.0d0
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 3.5e-11) {
		tmp = (1.0 + (a * 2.0)) * ((a * 2.0) + -1.0);
	} else if (b <= 4800000000.0) {
		tmp = Math.pow(a, 4.0);
	} else {
		tmp = Math.pow(b, 4.0);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= 3.5e-11:
		tmp = (1.0 + (a * 2.0)) * ((a * 2.0) + -1.0)
	elif b <= 4800000000.0:
		tmp = math.pow(a, 4.0)
	else:
		tmp = math.pow(b, 4.0)
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= 3.5e-11)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(1.0 + Float64(a * 2.0)) * Float64(Float64(a * 2.0) + -1.0));
	elseif (b <= 4800000000.0)
		tmp = a ^ 4.0;
	else
		tmp = b ^ 4.0;
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= 3.5e-11)
		tmp = (1.0 + (a * 2.0)) * ((a * 2.0) + -1.0);
	elseif (b <= 4800000000.0)
		tmp = a ^ 4.0;
	else
		tmp = b ^ 4.0;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[b, 3.5e-11], N[(N[(1.0 + N[(a * 2.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * N[(N[(a * 2.0), $MachinePrecision] + -1.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 4800000000.0], N[Power[a, 4.0], $MachinePrecision], N[Power[b, 4.0], $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < 3.50000000000000019e-11

   1. Initial program 72.6%

      \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate--l+ 72.6%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right)} \]

      2. fma-def 72.6%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, b \cdot b\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      3. sqr-neg 72.6%

         \[\leadsto {\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \color{blue}{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)}\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      4. fma-def 72.6%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      5. distribute-rgt-in 72.6%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\color{blue}{\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right)\right) \cdot 4 + \left(\left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4\right)} - 1\right) \]

      6. sqr-neg 72.6%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right)\right) \cdot 4 + \left(\color{blue}{\left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)} \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4\right) - 1\right) \]

      7. distribute-rgt-in 72.6%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\color{blue}{4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right)} - 1\right) \]

      8. fma-def 72.6%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      9. sqr-neg 72.6%

         \[\leadsto {\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \color{blue}{b \cdot b}\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

   3. Simplified 73.6%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, b \cdot b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right)} \]

   4. Taylor expanded in b around 0 63.5%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in a around 0 61.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{4 \cdot {a}^{2}} - 1 \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

      1. pow2 61.3%

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

      2. add-sqr-sqrt 61.3%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{4 \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot \sqrt{4 \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right)}} - 1 \]

      3. difference-of-sqr-1 61.3%

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

      4. sqrt-prod 61.3%

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

      5. metadata-eval 61.3%

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

      6. sqrt-prod 33.5%

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

      7. add-sqr-sqrt 45.8%

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

      8. sqrt-prod 45.8%

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

      9. metadata-eval 45.8%

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

      10. sqrt-prod 33.5%

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

      11. add-sqr-sqrt 61.3%

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

   7. Applied egg-rr 61.3%

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

   if 3.50000000000000019e-11 < b < 4.8e9

   1. Initial program 20.0%

      \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate--l+ 20.0%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right)} \]

      2. fma-def 20.0%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, b \cdot b\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      3. sqr-neg 20.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \color{blue}{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)}\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      4. fma-def 20.0%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      5. distribute-rgt-in 20.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\color{blue}{\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right)\right) \cdot 4 + \left(\left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4\right)} - 1\right) \]

      6. sqr-neg 20.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right)\right) \cdot 4 + \left(\color{blue}{\left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)} \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4\right) - 1\right) \]

      7. distribute-rgt-in 20.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\color{blue}{4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right)} - 1\right) \]

      8. fma-def 20.0%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      9. sqr-neg 20.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \color{blue}{b \cdot b}\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

   3. Simplified 20.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, b \cdot b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right)} \]

   4. Taylor expanded in a around inf 100.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{a}^{4}} \]

   if 4.8e9 < b

   1. Initial program 66.0%

      \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate--l+ 66.0%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right)} \]

      2. fma-def 66.0%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, b \cdot b\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      3. sqr-neg 66.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \color{blue}{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)}\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      4. fma-def 66.0%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      5. distribute-rgt-in 66.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\color{blue}{\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right)\right) \cdot 4 + \left(\left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4\right)} - 1\right) \]

      6. sqr-neg 66.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right)\right) \cdot 4 + \left(\color{blue}{\left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)} \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4\right) - 1\right) \]

      7. distribute-rgt-in 66.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\color{blue}{4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right)} - 1\right) \]

      8. fma-def 66.0%

         \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

      9. sqr-neg 66.0%

         \[\leadsto {\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \color{blue}{b \cdot b}\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

   3. Simplified 69.8%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, b \cdot b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right)} \]

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 96.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{b}^{4}} \]
3. Recombined 3 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 69.4%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 3.5 \cdot 10^{-11}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(1 + a \cdot 2\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot 2 + -1\right)\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 4800000000:\\ \;\;\;\;{a}^{4}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;{b}^{4}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 6: 50.9% accurate, 11.6× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \left(1 + a \cdot 2\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot 2 + -1\right) \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (* (+ 1.0 (* a 2.0)) (+ (* a 2.0) -1.0)))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	return (1.0 + (a * 2.0)) * ((a * 2.0) + -1.0);
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    code = (1.0d0 + (a * 2.0d0)) * ((a * 2.0d0) + (-1.0d0))
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return (1.0 + (a * 2.0)) * ((a * 2.0) + -1.0);
}

Python

def code(a, b):
	return (1.0 + (a * 2.0)) * ((a * 2.0) + -1.0)

Julia

function code(a, b)
	return Float64(Float64(1.0 + Float64(a * 2.0)) * Float64(Float64(a * 2.0) + -1.0))
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = (1.0 + (a * 2.0)) * ((a * 2.0) + -1.0);
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := N[(N[(1.0 + N[(a * 2.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * N[(N[(a * 2.0), $MachinePrecision] + -1.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 70.2%

   \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]
2. Step-by-step derivation

   1. associate--l+ 70.2%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right)} \]

   2. fma-def 70.2%

      \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, b \cdot b\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

   3. sqr-neg 70.2%

      \[\leadsto {\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \color{blue}{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)}\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

   4. fma-def 70.2%

      \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

   5. distribute-rgt-in 70.2%

      \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\color{blue}{\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right)\right) \cdot 4 + \left(\left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4\right)} - 1\right) \]

   6. sqr-neg 70.2%

      \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right)\right) \cdot 4 + \left(\color{blue}{\left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)} \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4\right) - 1\right) \]

   7. distribute-rgt-in 70.2%

      \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\color{blue}{4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right)} - 1\right) \]

   8. fma-def 70.2%

      \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

   9. sqr-neg 70.2%

      \[\leadsto {\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \color{blue}{b \cdot b}\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

3. Simplified 71.8%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, b \cdot b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right)} \]

4. Taylor expanded in b around 0 53.2%

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

5. Taylor expanded in a around 0 53.3%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{4 \cdot {a}^{2}} - 1 \]
6. Step-by-step derivation

   1. pow2 53.3%

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

   2. add-sqr-sqrt 53.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{4 \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot \sqrt{4 \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right)}} - 1 \]

   3. difference-of-sqr-1 53.3%

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

   4. sqrt-prod 53.3%

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

   5. metadata-eval 53.3%

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

   6. sqrt-prod 30.1%

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

   7. add-sqr-sqrt 39.6%

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

   8. sqrt-prod 39.6%

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

   9. metadata-eval 39.6%

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

   10. sqrt-prod 30.1%

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

   11. add-sqr-sqrt 53.3%

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

7. Applied egg-rr 53.3%

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

8. Final simplification 53.3%

   \[\leadsto \left(1 + a \cdot 2\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot 2 + -1\right) \]

Alternative 7: 25.3% accurate, 128.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ -1 \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 -1.0)

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	return -1.0;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    code = -1.0d0
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return -1.0;
}

Python

def code(a, b):
	return -1.0

Julia

function code(a, b)
	return -1.0
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = -1.0;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := -1.0

Derivation

1. Initial program 70.2%

   \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \]
2. Step-by-step derivation

   1. associate--l+ 70.2%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right)} \]

   2. fma-def 70.2%

      \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, b \cdot b\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

   3. sqr-neg 70.2%

      \[\leadsto {\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \color{blue}{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)}\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

   4. fma-def 70.2%

      \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

   5. distribute-rgt-in 70.2%

      \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\color{blue}{\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right)\right) \cdot 4 + \left(\left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4\right)} - 1\right) \]

   6. sqr-neg 70.2%

      \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\left(\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right)\right) \cdot 4 + \left(\color{blue}{\left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)} \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) \cdot 4\right) - 1\right) \]

   7. distribute-rgt-in 70.2%

      \[\leadsto {\left(a \cdot a + \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(\color{blue}{4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right)} - 1\right) \]

   8. fma-def 70.2%

      \[\leadsto {\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right)\right)}}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

   9. sqr-neg 70.2%

      \[\leadsto {\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, \color{blue}{b \cdot b}\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 - a\right) + \left(\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 + a\right)\right) - 1\right) \]

3. Simplified 71.8%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, a, b \cdot b\right)\right)}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 1 - a, b \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(a + 3\right)\right)\right) - 1\right)} \]

4. Taylor expanded in b around 0 53.2%

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

5. Taylor expanded in a around 0 53.3%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{4 \cdot {a}^{2}} - 1 \]

6. Taylor expanded in a around 0 24.0%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1} \]

7. Final simplification 24.0%

   \[\leadsto -1 \]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2023319 
(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))