Bouland and Aaronson, Equation (26)

Percentage Accurate: 99.9% → 100.0%

Time: 3.4s

Alternatives: 6

Speedup: 1.0×

• 59.9% of points produce a very large (infinite) output. You may want to add a precondition.

Specification

Math

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

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (- (+ (pow (+ (* a a) (* b b)) 2.0) (* 4.0 (* b b))) 1.0))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	return (pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + (4.0 * (b * b))) - 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 * (b * b))) - 1.0d0
end function

Java

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

Python

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

Julia

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

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = ((((a * a) + (b * b)) ^ 2.0) + (4.0 * (b * b))) - 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[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - 1.0), $MachinePrecision]

Initial Program: 99.9% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

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

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (- (+ (pow (+ (* a a) (* b b)) 2.0) (* 4.0 (* b b))) 1.0))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	return (pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + (4.0 * (b * b))) - 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 * (b * b))) - 1.0d0
end function

Java

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

Python

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

Julia

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

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = ((((a * a) + (b * b)) ^ 2.0) + (4.0 * (b * b))) - 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[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - 1.0), $MachinePrecision]

Alternative 1: 100.0% accurate, 0.4× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot 4, b, {\left(\mathsf{hypot}\left(a, b\right)\right)}^{4}\right) + -1 \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (+ (fma (* b 4.0) b (pow (hypot a b) 4.0)) -1.0))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	return fma((b * 4.0), b, pow(hypot(a, b), 4.0)) + -1.0;
}

Julia

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

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := N[(N[(N[(b * 4.0), $MachinePrecision] * b + N[Power[N[Sqrt[a ^ 2 + b ^ 2], $MachinePrecision], 4.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + -1.0), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 99.9%

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

   1. +-commutative 99.9%

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

   2. associate-*r* 99.9%

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

   3. *-commutative 99.9%

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

   4. fma-def 99.9%

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

   5. metadata-eval 99.9%

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

   6. sqrt-pow2 100.0%

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

   7. hypot-udef 100.0%

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

4. Applied egg-rr 100.0%

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

5. Final simplification 100.0%

   \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot 4, b, {\left(\mathsf{hypot}\left(a, b\right)\right)}^{4}\right) + -1 \]
6. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 2: 100.0% accurate, 0.4× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ {\left(\mathsf{hypot}\left(a, b\right)\right)}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(b, b \cdot 4, -1\right) \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (+ (pow (hypot a b) 4.0) (fma b (* b 4.0) -1.0)))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	return pow(hypot(a, b), 4.0) + fma(b, (b * 4.0), -1.0);
}

Julia

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

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := N[(N[Power[N[Sqrt[a ^ 2 + b ^ 2], $MachinePrecision], 4.0], $MachinePrecision] + N[(b * N[(b * 4.0), $MachinePrecision] + -1.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 99.9%

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

   1. associate--l+ 99.9%

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

   2. sqr-pow 99.9%

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

3. Simplified 100.0%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(\mathsf{hypot}\left(a, b\right)\right)}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(b, b \cdot 4, -1\right)} \]
4. Add Preprocessing

5. Final simplification 100.0%

   \[\leadsto {\left(\mathsf{hypot}\left(a, b\right)\right)}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(b, b \cdot 4, -1\right) \]
6. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 3: 82.0% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 24:\\ \;\;\;\;{a}^{4} + -1\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 3.35 \cdot 10^{+38} \lor \neg \left(b \leq 1.8 \cdot 10^{+72}\right):\\ \;\;\;\;{b}^{4}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;{a}^{4}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b 24.0)
   (+ (pow a 4.0) -1.0)
   (if (or (<= b 3.35e+38) (not (<= b 1.8e+72))) (pow b 4.0) (pow a 4.0))))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 24.0) {
		tmp = pow(a, 4.0) + -1.0;
	} else if ((b <= 3.35e+38) || !(b <= 1.8e+72)) {
		tmp = pow(b, 4.0);
	} else {
		tmp = pow(a, 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 <= 24.0d0) then
        tmp = (a ** 4.0d0) + (-1.0d0)
    else if ((b <= 3.35d+38) .or. (.not. (b <= 1.8d+72))) then
        tmp = b ** 4.0d0
    else
        tmp = a ** 4.0d0
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 24.0) {
		tmp = Math.pow(a, 4.0) + -1.0;
	} else if ((b <= 3.35e+38) || !(b <= 1.8e+72)) {
		tmp = Math.pow(b, 4.0);
	} else {
		tmp = Math.pow(a, 4.0);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= 24.0:
		tmp = math.pow(a, 4.0) + -1.0
	elif (b <= 3.35e+38) or not (b <= 1.8e+72):
		tmp = math.pow(b, 4.0)
	else:
		tmp = math.pow(a, 4.0)
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= 24.0)
		tmp = Float64((a ^ 4.0) + -1.0);
	elseif ((b <= 3.35e+38) || !(b <= 1.8e+72))
		tmp = b ^ 4.0;
	else
		tmp = a ^ 4.0;
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= 24.0)
		tmp = (a ^ 4.0) + -1.0;
	elseif ((b <= 3.35e+38) || ~((b <= 1.8e+72)))
		tmp = b ^ 4.0;
	else
		tmp = a ^ 4.0;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[b, 24.0], N[(N[Power[a, 4.0], $MachinePrecision] + -1.0), $MachinePrecision], If[Or[LessEqual[b, 3.35e+38], N[Not[LessEqual[b, 1.8e+72]], $MachinePrecision]], N[Power[b, 4.0], $MachinePrecision], N[Power[a, 4.0], $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < 24

   1. Initial program 99.9%

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

      1. associate--l+ 99.9%

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

      2. sqr-pow 99.9%

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

   3. Simplified 100.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(\mathsf{hypot}\left(a, b\right)\right)}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(b, b \cdot 4, -1\right)} \]
   4. Add Preprocessing

   5. Taylor expanded in b around 0 79.9%

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

   if 24 < b < 3.35000000000000012e38 or 1.80000000000000017e72 < b

   1. Initial program 99.9%

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

      1. associate--l+ 99.9%

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

      2. sqr-pow 99.9%

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

   3. Simplified 100.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(\mathsf{hypot}\left(a, b\right)\right)}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(b, b \cdot 4, -1\right)} \]
   4. Add Preprocessing

   5. Taylor expanded in b around inf 99.4%

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

   if 3.35000000000000012e38 < b < 1.80000000000000017e72

   1. Initial program 99.5%

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

      1. associate--l+ 99.5%

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

      2. sqr-pow 99.5%

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

   3. Simplified 100.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(\mathsf{hypot}\left(a, b\right)\right)}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(b, b \cdot 4, -1\right)} \]
   4. Add Preprocessing

   5. Taylor expanded in a around inf 68.7%

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

4. Final simplification 82.6%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 24:\\ \;\;\;\;{a}^{4} + -1\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 3.35 \cdot 10^{+38} \lor \neg \left(b \leq 1.8 \cdot 10^{+72}\right):\\ \;\;\;\;{b}^{4}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;{a}^{4}\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 4: 99.9% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

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

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (+ (+ (pow (+ (* a a) (* b b)) 2.0) (* 4.0 (* b b))) -1.0))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	return (pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + (4.0 * (b * b))) + -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 * (b * b))) + (-1.0d0)
end function

Java

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

Python

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

Julia

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

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = ((((a * a) + (b * b)) ^ 2.0) + (4.0 * (b * b))) + -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[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + -1.0), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 99.9%

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

3. Final simplification 99.9%

   \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right)\right) + -1 \]
4. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 5: 56.9% accurate, 1.1× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;a \leq 880:\\ \;\;\;\;{b}^{4}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;{a}^{4}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (if (<= a 880.0) (pow b 4.0) (pow a 4.0)))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (a <= 880.0) {
		tmp = pow(b, 4.0);
	} else {
		tmp = pow(a, 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 (a <= 880.0d0) then
        tmp = b ** 4.0d0
    else
        tmp = a ** 4.0d0
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (a <= 880.0) {
		tmp = Math.pow(b, 4.0);
	} else {
		tmp = Math.pow(a, 4.0);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b):
	tmp = 0
	if a <= 880.0:
		tmp = math.pow(b, 4.0)
	else:
		tmp = math.pow(a, 4.0)
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (a <= 880.0)
		tmp = b ^ 4.0;
	else
		tmp = a ^ 4.0;
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (a <= 880.0)
		tmp = b ^ 4.0;
	else
		tmp = a ^ 4.0;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[a, 880.0], N[Power[b, 4.0], $MachinePrecision], N[Power[a, 4.0], $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if a < 880

   1. Initial program 99.9%

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

      1. associate--l+ 99.9%

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

      2. sqr-pow 99.9%

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

   3. Simplified 100.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(\mathsf{hypot}\left(a, b\right)\right)}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(b, b \cdot 4, -1\right)} \]
   4. Add Preprocessing

   5. Taylor expanded in b around inf 40.7%

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

   if 880 < a

   1. Initial program 99.9%

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

      1. associate--l+ 99.9%

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

      2. sqr-pow 99.9%

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

   3. Simplified 100.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(\mathsf{hypot}\left(a, b\right)\right)}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(b, b \cdot 4, -1\right)} \]
   4. Add Preprocessing

   5. Taylor expanded in a around inf 93.2%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{a}^{4}} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 52.2%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;a \leq 880:\\ \;\;\;\;{b}^{4}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;{a}^{4}\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 6: 45.2% accurate, 1.1× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ {a}^{4} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (pow a 4.0))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	return pow(a, 4.0);
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    code = a ** 4.0d0
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return Math.pow(a, 4.0);
}

Python

def code(a, b):
	return math.pow(a, 4.0)

Julia

function code(a, b)
	return a ^ 4.0
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = a ^ 4.0;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := N[Power[a, 4.0], $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 99.9%

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

   1. associate--l+ 99.9%

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

   2. sqr-pow 99.9%

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

3. Simplified 100.0%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(\mathsf{hypot}\left(a, b\right)\right)}^{4} + \mathsf{fma}\left(b, b \cdot 4, -1\right)} \]
4. Add Preprocessing

5. Taylor expanded in a around inf 47.1%

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

6. Final simplification 47.1%

   \[\leadsto {a}^{4} \]
7. Add Preprocessing

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2024013 
(FPCore (a b)
  :name "Bouland and Aaronson, Equation (26)"
  :precision binary64
  (- (+ (pow (+ (* a a) (* b b)) 2.0) (* 4.0 (* b b))) 1.0))