Eccentricity of an ellipse

Percentage Accurate: 77.1% → 100.0%

Time: 4.7s

Alternatives: 3

Speedup: 211.0×

Specification

\[\left(0 \leq b \land b \leq a\right) \land a \leq 1\]

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \sqrt{\left|\frac{a \cdot a - b \cdot b}{a \cdot a}\right|} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (sqrt (fabs (/ (- (* a a) (* b b)) (* a a)))))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	return sqrt(fabs((((a * a) - (b * b)) / (a * a))));
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    code = sqrt(abs((((a * a) - (b * b)) / (a * a))))
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return Math.sqrt(Math.abs((((a * a) - (b * b)) / (a * a))));
}

Python

def code(a, b):
	return math.sqrt(math.fabs((((a * a) - (b * b)) / (a * a))))

Julia

function code(a, b)
	return sqrt(abs(Float64(Float64(Float64(a * a) - Float64(b * b)) / Float64(a * a))))
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = sqrt(abs((((a * a) - (b * b)) / (a * a))));
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := N[Sqrt[N[Abs[N[(N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] - N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]

Initial Program: 77.1% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \sqrt{\left|\frac{a \cdot a - b \cdot b}{a \cdot a}\right|} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (sqrt (fabs (/ (- (* a a) (* b b)) (* a a)))))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	return sqrt(fabs((((a * a) - (b * b)) / (a * a))));
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    code = sqrt(abs((((a * a) - (b * b)) / (a * a))))
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return Math.sqrt(Math.abs((((a * a) - (b * b)) / (a * a))));
}

Python

def code(a, b):
	return math.sqrt(math.fabs((((a * a) - (b * b)) / (a * a))))

Julia

function code(a, b)
	return sqrt(abs(Float64(Float64(Float64(a * a) - Float64(b * b)) / Float64(a * a))))
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = sqrt(abs((((a * a) - (b * b)) / (a * a))));
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := N[Sqrt[N[Abs[N[(N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] - N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]

Alternative 1: 100.0% accurate, 1.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \sqrt{1 - \left(\left(1 + \frac{\frac{b}{a}}{\frac{a}{b}}\right) + -1\right)} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (sqrt (- 1.0 (+ (+ 1.0 (/ (/ b a) (/ a b))) -1.0))))

C

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

Fortran

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

Java

public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return Math.sqrt((1.0 - ((1.0 + ((b / a) / (a / b))) + -1.0)));
}

Python

def code(a, b):
	return math.sqrt((1.0 - ((1.0 + ((b / a) / (a / b))) + -1.0)))

Julia

function code(a, b)
	return sqrt(Float64(1.0 - Float64(Float64(1.0 + Float64(Float64(b / a) / Float64(a / b))) + -1.0)))
end

MATLAB

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

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := N[Sqrt[N[(1.0 - N[(N[(1.0 + N[(N[(b / a), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + -1.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 77.3%

   \[\sqrt{\left|\frac{a \cdot a - b \cdot b}{a \cdot a}\right|} \]
2. Step-by-step derivation

   1. sqr-neg 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\left|\frac{a \cdot a - \color{blue}{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)}}{a \cdot a}\right|} \]

   2. sqr-neg 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\left|\frac{a \cdot a - \color{blue}{b \cdot b}}{a \cdot a}\right|} \]

   3. div-sub 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\left|\color{blue}{\frac{a \cdot a}{a \cdot a} - \frac{b \cdot b}{a \cdot a}}\right|} \]

   4. *-inverses 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\left|\color{blue}{1} - \frac{b \cdot b}{a \cdot a}\right|} \]

   5. times-frac 100.0%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\left|1 - \color{blue}{\frac{b}{a} \cdot \frac{b}{a}}\right|} \]

3. Simplified 100.0%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{\left|1 - \frac{b}{a} \cdot \frac{b}{a}\right|}} \]
4. Add Preprocessing

5. Taylor expanded in b around 0 77.3%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{\left|1 - \frac{{b}^{2}}{{a}^{2}}\right|}} \]
6. Step-by-step derivation

   1. fabs-sub 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\color{blue}{\left|\frac{{b}^{2}}{{a}^{2}} - 1\right|}} \]

   2. *-inverses 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\left|\frac{{b}^{2}}{{a}^{2}} - \color{blue}{\frac{{a}^{2}}{{a}^{2}}}\right|} \]

   3. fabs-sub 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\color{blue}{\left|\frac{{a}^{2}}{{a}^{2}} - \frac{{b}^{2}}{{a}^{2}}\right|}} \]

   4. div-sub 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\left|\color{blue}{\frac{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}}{{a}^{2}}}\right|} \]

   5. fabs-div 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\color{blue}{\frac{\left|{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}\right|}{\left|{a}^{2}\right|}}} \]

   6. rem-square-sqrt 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\frac{\left|\color{blue}{\sqrt{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}} \cdot \sqrt{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}}}\right|}{\left|{a}^{2}\right|}} \]

   7. fabs-sqr 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\frac{\color{blue}{\sqrt{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}} \cdot \sqrt{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}}}}{\left|{a}^{2}\right|}} \]

   8. unpow2 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}} \cdot \sqrt{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}}}{\left|\color{blue}{a \cdot a}\right|}} \]

   9. fabs-sqr 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}} \cdot \sqrt{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}}}{\color{blue}{a \cdot a}}} \]

   10. unpow2 77.3%

       \[\leadsto \sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}} \cdot \sqrt{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}}}{\color{blue}{{a}^{2}}}} \]

   11. rem-square-sqrt 77.3%

       \[\leadsto \sqrt{\frac{\color{blue}{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}}}{{a}^{2}}} \]

   12. div-sub 77.3%

       \[\leadsto \sqrt{\color{blue}{\frac{{a}^{2}}{{a}^{2}} - \frac{{b}^{2}}{{a}^{2}}}} \]

   13. *-inverses 77.3%

       \[\leadsto \sqrt{\color{blue}{1} - \frac{{b}^{2}}{{a}^{2}}} \]

   14. unpow2 77.3%

       \[\leadsto \sqrt{1 - \frac{\color{blue}{b \cdot b}}{{a}^{2}}} \]

   15. unpow2 77.3%

       \[\leadsto \sqrt{1 - \frac{b \cdot b}{\color{blue}{a \cdot a}}} \]

   16. times-frac 100.0%

       \[\leadsto \sqrt{1 - \color{blue}{\frac{b}{a} \cdot \frac{b}{a}}} \]

   17. unpow2 100.0%

       \[\leadsto \sqrt{1 - \color{blue}{{\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)}^{2}}} \]

7. Simplified 100.0%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{1 - {\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)}^{2}}} \]
8. Step-by-step derivation

   1. expm1-log1p-u 100.0%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{1 - \color{blue}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left({\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)}^{2}\right)\right)}} \]

   2. expm1-udef 100.0%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{1 - \color{blue}{\left(e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left({\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)}^{2}\right)} - 1\right)}} \]

   3. log1p-udef 100.0%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{1 - \left(e^{\color{blue}{\log \left(1 + {\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)}^{2}\right)}} - 1\right)} \]

   4. add-exp-log 100.0%

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

   5. +-commutative 100.0%

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

9. Applied egg-rr 100.0%

   \[\leadsto \sqrt{1 - \color{blue}{\left(\left({\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)}^{2} + 1\right) - 1\right)}} \]
10. Step-by-step derivation

    1. unpow2 100.0%

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

    2. clear-num 100.0%

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

    3. un-div-inv 100.0%

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

11. Applied egg-rr 100.0%

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

12. Final simplification 100.0%

    \[\leadsto \sqrt{1 - \left(\left(1 + \frac{\frac{b}{a}}{\frac{a}{b}}\right) + -1\right)} \]
13. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 2: 100.0% accurate, 1.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \sqrt{1 - \frac{\frac{b}{a}}{\frac{a}{b}}} \end{array} \]

FPCore

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

C

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

Fortran

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

Java

public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return Math.sqrt((1.0 - ((b / a) / (a / b))));
}

Python

def code(a, b):
	return math.sqrt((1.0 - ((b / a) / (a / b))))

Julia

function code(a, b)
	return sqrt(Float64(1.0 - Float64(Float64(b / a) / Float64(a / b))))
end

MATLAB

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

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := N[Sqrt[N[(1.0 - N[(N[(b / a), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 77.3%

   \[\sqrt{\left|\frac{a \cdot a - b \cdot b}{a \cdot a}\right|} \]
2. Step-by-step derivation

   1. sqr-neg 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\left|\frac{a \cdot a - \color{blue}{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)}}{a \cdot a}\right|} \]

   2. sqr-neg 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\left|\frac{a \cdot a - \color{blue}{b \cdot b}}{a \cdot a}\right|} \]

   3. div-sub 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\left|\color{blue}{\frac{a \cdot a}{a \cdot a} - \frac{b \cdot b}{a \cdot a}}\right|} \]

   4. *-inverses 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\left|\color{blue}{1} - \frac{b \cdot b}{a \cdot a}\right|} \]

   5. times-frac 100.0%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\left|1 - \color{blue}{\frac{b}{a} \cdot \frac{b}{a}}\right|} \]

3. Simplified 100.0%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{\left|1 - \frac{b}{a} \cdot \frac{b}{a}\right|}} \]
4. Add Preprocessing

5. Taylor expanded in b around 0 77.3%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{\left|1 - \frac{{b}^{2}}{{a}^{2}}\right|}} \]
6. Step-by-step derivation

   1. fabs-sub 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\color{blue}{\left|\frac{{b}^{2}}{{a}^{2}} - 1\right|}} \]

   2. *-inverses 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\left|\frac{{b}^{2}}{{a}^{2}} - \color{blue}{\frac{{a}^{2}}{{a}^{2}}}\right|} \]

   3. fabs-sub 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\color{blue}{\left|\frac{{a}^{2}}{{a}^{2}} - \frac{{b}^{2}}{{a}^{2}}\right|}} \]

   4. div-sub 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\left|\color{blue}{\frac{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}}{{a}^{2}}}\right|} \]

   5. fabs-div 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\color{blue}{\frac{\left|{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}\right|}{\left|{a}^{2}\right|}}} \]

   6. rem-square-sqrt 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\frac{\left|\color{blue}{\sqrt{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}} \cdot \sqrt{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}}}\right|}{\left|{a}^{2}\right|}} \]

   7. fabs-sqr 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\frac{\color{blue}{\sqrt{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}} \cdot \sqrt{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}}}}{\left|{a}^{2}\right|}} \]

   8. unpow2 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}} \cdot \sqrt{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}}}{\left|\color{blue}{a \cdot a}\right|}} \]

   9. fabs-sqr 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}} \cdot \sqrt{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}}}{\color{blue}{a \cdot a}}} \]

   10. unpow2 77.3%

       \[\leadsto \sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}} \cdot \sqrt{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}}}{\color{blue}{{a}^{2}}}} \]

   11. rem-square-sqrt 77.3%

       \[\leadsto \sqrt{\frac{\color{blue}{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}}}{{a}^{2}}} \]

   12. div-sub 77.3%

       \[\leadsto \sqrt{\color{blue}{\frac{{a}^{2}}{{a}^{2}} - \frac{{b}^{2}}{{a}^{2}}}} \]

   13. *-inverses 77.3%

       \[\leadsto \sqrt{\color{blue}{1} - \frac{{b}^{2}}{{a}^{2}}} \]

   14. unpow2 77.3%

       \[\leadsto \sqrt{1 - \frac{\color{blue}{b \cdot b}}{{a}^{2}}} \]

   15. unpow2 77.3%

       \[\leadsto \sqrt{1 - \frac{b \cdot b}{\color{blue}{a \cdot a}}} \]

   16. times-frac 100.0%

       \[\leadsto \sqrt{1 - \color{blue}{\frac{b}{a} \cdot \frac{b}{a}}} \]

   17. unpow2 100.0%

       \[\leadsto \sqrt{1 - \color{blue}{{\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)}^{2}}} \]

7. Simplified 100.0%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{1 - {\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)}^{2}}} \]
8. Step-by-step derivation

   1. unpow2 100.0%

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

   2. clear-num 100.0%

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

   3. un-div-inv 100.0%

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

9. Applied egg-rr 100.0%

   \[\leadsto \sqrt{1 - \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{b}{a}}{\frac{a}{b}}}} \]

10. Final simplification 100.0%

    \[\leadsto \sqrt{1 - \frac{\frac{b}{a}}{\frac{a}{b}}} \]
11. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 3: 98.0% accurate, 211.0× 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 77.3%

   \[\sqrt{\left|\frac{a \cdot a - b \cdot b}{a \cdot a}\right|} \]
2. Step-by-step derivation

   1. sqr-neg 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\left|\frac{a \cdot a - \color{blue}{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)}}{a \cdot a}\right|} \]

   2. sqr-neg 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\left|\frac{a \cdot a - \color{blue}{b \cdot b}}{a \cdot a}\right|} \]

   3. div-sub 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\left|\color{blue}{\frac{a \cdot a}{a \cdot a} - \frac{b \cdot b}{a \cdot a}}\right|} \]

   4. *-inverses 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\left|\color{blue}{1} - \frac{b \cdot b}{a \cdot a}\right|} \]

   5. times-frac 100.0%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\left|1 - \color{blue}{\frac{b}{a} \cdot \frac{b}{a}}\right|} \]

3. Simplified 100.0%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{\left|1 - \frac{b}{a} \cdot \frac{b}{a}\right|}} \]
4. Add Preprocessing

5. Taylor expanded in b around 0 77.3%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{\left|1 - \frac{{b}^{2}}{{a}^{2}}\right|}} \]
6. Step-by-step derivation

   1. fabs-sub 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\color{blue}{\left|\frac{{b}^{2}}{{a}^{2}} - 1\right|}} \]

   2. *-inverses 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\left|\frac{{b}^{2}}{{a}^{2}} - \color{blue}{\frac{{a}^{2}}{{a}^{2}}}\right|} \]

   3. fabs-sub 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\color{blue}{\left|\frac{{a}^{2}}{{a}^{2}} - \frac{{b}^{2}}{{a}^{2}}\right|}} \]

   4. div-sub 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\left|\color{blue}{\frac{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}}{{a}^{2}}}\right|} \]

   5. fabs-div 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\color{blue}{\frac{\left|{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}\right|}{\left|{a}^{2}\right|}}} \]

   6. rem-square-sqrt 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\frac{\left|\color{blue}{\sqrt{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}} \cdot \sqrt{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}}}\right|}{\left|{a}^{2}\right|}} \]

   7. fabs-sqr 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\frac{\color{blue}{\sqrt{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}} \cdot \sqrt{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}}}}{\left|{a}^{2}\right|}} \]

   8. unpow2 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}} \cdot \sqrt{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}}}{\left|\color{blue}{a \cdot a}\right|}} \]

   9. fabs-sqr 77.3%

      \[\leadsto \sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}} \cdot \sqrt{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}}}{\color{blue}{a \cdot a}}} \]

   10. unpow2 77.3%

       \[\leadsto \sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}} \cdot \sqrt{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}}}{\color{blue}{{a}^{2}}}} \]

   11. rem-square-sqrt 77.3%

       \[\leadsto \sqrt{\frac{\color{blue}{{a}^{2} - {b}^{2}}}{{a}^{2}}} \]

   12. div-sub 77.3%

       \[\leadsto \sqrt{\color{blue}{\frac{{a}^{2}}{{a}^{2}} - \frac{{b}^{2}}{{a}^{2}}}} \]

   13. *-inverses 77.3%

       \[\leadsto \sqrt{\color{blue}{1} - \frac{{b}^{2}}{{a}^{2}}} \]

   14. unpow2 77.3%

       \[\leadsto \sqrt{1 - \frac{\color{blue}{b \cdot b}}{{a}^{2}}} \]

   15. unpow2 77.3%

       \[\leadsto \sqrt{1 - \frac{b \cdot b}{\color{blue}{a \cdot a}}} \]

   16. times-frac 100.0%

       \[\leadsto \sqrt{1 - \color{blue}{\frac{b}{a} \cdot \frac{b}{a}}} \]

   17. unpow2 100.0%

       \[\leadsto \sqrt{1 - \color{blue}{{\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)}^{2}}} \]

7. Simplified 100.0%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\sqrt{1 - {\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)}^{2}}} \]

8. Taylor expanded in b around 0 96.4%

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

9. Final simplification 96.4%

   \[\leadsto 1 \]
10. Add Preprocessing

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2024013 
(FPCore (a b)
  :name "Eccentricity of an ellipse"
  :precision binary64
  :pre (and (and (<= 0.0 b) (<= b a)) (<= a 1.0))
  (sqrt (fabs (/ (- (* a a) (* b b)) (* a a)))))