Eccentricity of an ellipse

Percentage Accurate: 77.6% → 100.0%

Time: 6.1s

Alternatives: 4

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: 77.6% 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, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{\frac{b}{-a}}{\frac{a}{b}}\right) \cdot 0.5} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (exp (* (log1p (/ (/ b (- a)) (/ a b))) 0.5)))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	return exp((log1p(((b / -a) / (a / b))) * 0.5));
}

Java

public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return Math.exp((Math.log1p(((b / -a) / (a / b))) * 0.5));
}

Python

def code(a, b):
	return math.exp((math.log1p(((b / -a) / (a / b))) * 0.5))

Julia

function code(a, b)
	return exp(Float64(log1p(Float64(Float64(b / Float64(-a)) / Float64(a / b))) * 0.5))
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := N[Exp[N[(N[Log[1 + N[(N[(b / (-a)), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] * 0.5), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 79.5%

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

   1. sqr-neg 79.5%

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

   2. fabs-div 79.5%

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

   3. sqr-neg 79.5%

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

   4. fabs-sub 79.5%

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

   5. sqr-neg 79.5%

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

   6. distribute-rgt-neg-out 79.5%

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

   7. fabs-neg 79.5%

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

   8. fabs-div 79.5%

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

   9. cancel-sign-sub-inv 79.5%

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

   10. +-commutative 79.5%

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

   11. sqr-neg 79.5%

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

   12. cancel-sign-sub-inv 79.5%

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

3. Simplified 80.3%

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

   1. pow1/2 80.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(\left|1 - b \cdot \frac{b}{a \cdot a}\right|\right)}^{0.5}} \]

   2. pow-to-exp 80.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{e^{\log \left(\left|1 - b \cdot \frac{b}{a \cdot a}\right|\right) \cdot 0.5}} \]

   3. add-sqr-sqrt 79.7%

      \[\leadsto e^{\log \left(\left|\color{blue}{\sqrt{1 - b \cdot \frac{b}{a \cdot a}} \cdot \sqrt{1 - b \cdot \frac{b}{a \cdot a}}}\right|\right) \cdot 0.5} \]

   4. fabs-sqr 79.7%

      \[\leadsto e^{\log \color{blue}{\left(\sqrt{1 - b \cdot \frac{b}{a \cdot a}} \cdot \sqrt{1 - b \cdot \frac{b}{a \cdot a}}\right)} \cdot 0.5} \]

   5. add-sqr-sqrt 79.7%

      \[\leadsto e^{\log \color{blue}{\left(1 - b \cdot \frac{b}{a \cdot a}\right)} \cdot 0.5} \]

   6. sub-neg 79.7%

      \[\leadsto e^{\log \color{blue}{\left(1 + \left(-b \cdot \frac{b}{a \cdot a}\right)\right)} \cdot 0.5} \]

   7. log1p-define 79.7%

      \[\leadsto e^{\color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(-b \cdot \frac{b}{a \cdot a}\right)} \cdot 0.5} \]

   8. associate-*r/ 79.6%

      \[\leadsto e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left(-\color{blue}{\frac{b \cdot b}{a \cdot a}}\right) \cdot 0.5} \]

   9. frac-times 100.0%

      \[\leadsto e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left(-\color{blue}{\frac{b}{a} \cdot \frac{b}{a}}\right) \cdot 0.5} \]

   10. pow2 100.0%

       \[\leadsto e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left(-\color{blue}{{\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)}^{2}}\right) \cdot 0.5} \]

6. Applied egg-rr 100.0%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left(-{\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)}^{2}\right) \cdot 0.5}} \]
7. Step-by-step derivation

   1. unpow2 100.0%

      \[\leadsto e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left(-\color{blue}{\frac{b}{a} \cdot \frac{b}{a}}\right) \cdot 0.5} \]

   2. clear-num 100.0%

      \[\leadsto e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left(-\frac{b}{a} \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{1}{\frac{a}{b}}}\right) \cdot 0.5} \]

   3. un-div-inv 100.0%

      \[\leadsto e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left(-\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{b}{a}}{\frac{a}{b}}}\right) \cdot 0.5} \]

8. Applied egg-rr 100.0%

   \[\leadsto e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left(-\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{b}{a}}{\frac{a}{b}}}\right) \cdot 0.5} \]

9. Final simplification 100.0%

   \[\leadsto e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{\frac{b}{-a}}{\frac{a}{b}}\right) \cdot 0.5} \]
10. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 2: 100.0% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \sqrt{\left|1 - \frac{b \cdot \frac{b}{a}}{a}\right|} \end{array} \]

FPCore

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

C

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

Fortran

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

Java

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

Python

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

Julia

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

MATLAB

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

Wolfram

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

Derivation

1. Initial program 79.5%

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

   1. sqr-neg 79.5%

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

   2. fabs-div 79.5%

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

   3. sqr-neg 79.5%

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

   4. fabs-sub 79.5%

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

   5. sqr-neg 79.5%

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

   6. distribute-rgt-neg-out 79.5%

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

   7. fabs-neg 79.5%

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

   8. fabs-div 79.5%

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

   9. cancel-sign-sub-inv 79.5%

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

   10. +-commutative 79.5%

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

   11. sqr-neg 79.5%

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

   12. cancel-sign-sub-inv 79.5%

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

3. Simplified 80.3%

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

   1. *-commutative 80.3%

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

   2. associate-/r* 100.0%

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

   3. associate-*l/ 100.0%

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

6. Applied egg-rr 100.0%

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

7. Final simplification 100.0%

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

Alternative 3: 99.0% accurate, 1.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ e^{\frac{\frac{b}{a} \cdot -0.5}{\frac{a}{b}}} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (exp (/ (* (/ b a) -0.5) (/ a b))))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	return exp((((b / a) * -0.5) / (a / b)));
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    code = exp((((b / a) * (-0.5d0)) / (a / b)))
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return Math.exp((((b / a) * -0.5) / (a / b)));
}

Python

def code(a, b):
	return math.exp((((b / a) * -0.5) / (a / b)))

Julia

function code(a, b)
	return exp(Float64(Float64(Float64(b / a) * -0.5) / Float64(a / b)))
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = exp((((b / a) * -0.5) / (a / b)));
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := N[Exp[N[(N[(N[(b / a), $MachinePrecision] * -0.5), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 79.5%

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

   1. sqr-neg 79.5%

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

   2. fabs-div 79.5%

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

   3. sqr-neg 79.5%

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

   4. fabs-sub 79.5%

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

   5. sqr-neg 79.5%

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

   6. distribute-rgt-neg-out 79.5%

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

   7. fabs-neg 79.5%

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

   8. fabs-div 79.5%

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

   9. cancel-sign-sub-inv 79.5%

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

   10. +-commutative 79.5%

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

   11. sqr-neg 79.5%

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

   12. cancel-sign-sub-inv 79.5%

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

3. Simplified 80.3%

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

   1. pow1/2 80.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(\left|1 - b \cdot \frac{b}{a \cdot a}\right|\right)}^{0.5}} \]

   2. pow-to-exp 80.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{e^{\log \left(\left|1 - b \cdot \frac{b}{a \cdot a}\right|\right) \cdot 0.5}} \]

   3. add-sqr-sqrt 79.7%

      \[\leadsto e^{\log \left(\left|\color{blue}{\sqrt{1 - b \cdot \frac{b}{a \cdot a}} \cdot \sqrt{1 - b \cdot \frac{b}{a \cdot a}}}\right|\right) \cdot 0.5} \]

   4. fabs-sqr 79.7%

      \[\leadsto e^{\log \color{blue}{\left(\sqrt{1 - b \cdot \frac{b}{a \cdot a}} \cdot \sqrt{1 - b \cdot \frac{b}{a \cdot a}}\right)} \cdot 0.5} \]

   5. add-sqr-sqrt 79.7%

      \[\leadsto e^{\log \color{blue}{\left(1 - b \cdot \frac{b}{a \cdot a}\right)} \cdot 0.5} \]

   6. sub-neg 79.7%

      \[\leadsto e^{\log \color{blue}{\left(1 + \left(-b \cdot \frac{b}{a \cdot a}\right)\right)} \cdot 0.5} \]

   7. log1p-define 79.7%

      \[\leadsto e^{\color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(-b \cdot \frac{b}{a \cdot a}\right)} \cdot 0.5} \]

   8. associate-*r/ 79.6%

      \[\leadsto e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left(-\color{blue}{\frac{b \cdot b}{a \cdot a}}\right) \cdot 0.5} \]

   9. frac-times 100.0%

      \[\leadsto e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left(-\color{blue}{\frac{b}{a} \cdot \frac{b}{a}}\right) \cdot 0.5} \]

   10. pow2 100.0%

       \[\leadsto e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left(-\color{blue}{{\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)}^{2}}\right) \cdot 0.5} \]

6. Applied egg-rr 100.0%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left(-{\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)}^{2}\right) \cdot 0.5}} \]

7. Taylor expanded in b around 0 78.8%

   \[\leadsto e^{\color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \frac{{b}^{2}}{{a}^{2}}}} \]
8. Step-by-step derivation

   1. unpow2 78.8%

      \[\leadsto e^{-0.5 \cdot \frac{\color{blue}{b \cdot b}}{{a}^{2}}} \]

   2. unpow2 78.8%

      \[\leadsto e^{-0.5 \cdot \frac{b \cdot b}{\color{blue}{a \cdot a}}} \]

   3. times-frac 99.2%

      \[\leadsto e^{-0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\frac{b}{a} \cdot \frac{b}{a}\right)}} \]

   4. unpow2 99.2%

      \[\leadsto e^{-0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{{\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)}^{2}}} \]

9. Simplified 99.2%

   \[\leadsto e^{\color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot {\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)}^{2}}} \]
10. Step-by-step derivation

    1. *-commutative 99.2%

       \[\leadsto e^{\color{blue}{{\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)}^{2} \cdot -0.5}} \]

    2. unpow2 99.2%

       \[\leadsto e^{\color{blue}{\left(\frac{b}{a} \cdot \frac{b}{a}\right)} \cdot -0.5} \]

    3. clear-num 99.2%

       \[\leadsto e^{\left(\frac{b}{a} \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{1}{\frac{a}{b}}}\right) \cdot -0.5} \]

    4. div-inv 99.2%

       \[\leadsto e^{\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{b}{a}}{\frac{a}{b}}} \cdot -0.5} \]

    5. associate-*l/ 99.2%

       \[\leadsto e^{\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{b}{a} \cdot -0.5}{\frac{a}{b}}}} \]

11. Applied egg-rr 99.2%

    \[\leadsto e^{\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{b}{a} \cdot -0.5}{\frac{a}{b}}}} \]

12. Final simplification 99.2%

    \[\leadsto e^{\frac{\frac{b}{a} \cdot -0.5}{\frac{a}{b}}} \]
13. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 4: 97.9% 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 79.5%

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

   1. sqr-neg 79.5%

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

   2. fabs-div 79.5%

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

   3. sqr-neg 79.5%

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

   4. fabs-sub 79.5%

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

   5. sqr-neg 79.5%

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

   6. distribute-rgt-neg-out 79.5%

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

   7. fabs-neg 79.5%

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

   8. fabs-div 79.5%

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

   9. cancel-sign-sub-inv 79.5%

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

   10. +-commutative 79.5%

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

   11. sqr-neg 79.5%

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

   12. cancel-sign-sub-inv 79.5%

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

3. Simplified 80.3%

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

   1. *-commutative 80.3%

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

   2. associate-/r* 100.0%

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

   3. associate-*l/ 100.0%

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

6. Applied egg-rr 100.0%

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

   1. expm1-log1p-u 100.0%

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

   2. expm1-undefine 100.0%

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

8. Applied egg-rr 98.2%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{e^{\mathsf{log1p}\left(\mathsf{hypot}\left(1, \frac{b}{a}\right)\right)} - 1} \]
9. Step-by-step derivation

   1. log1p-undefine 98.2%

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

   2. rem-exp-log 98.2%

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

   3. associate-+r- 98.2%

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

   4. +-commutative 98.2%

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

   5. associate-+l- 98.2%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{hypot}\left(1, \frac{b}{a}\right) - \left(1 - 1\right)} \]

   6. metadata-eval 98.2%

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{hypot}\left(1, \frac{b}{a}\right) - \color{blue}{0} \]

   7. --rgt-identity 98.2%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{hypot}\left(1, \frac{b}{a}\right)} \]

10. Simplified 98.2%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{hypot}\left(1, \frac{b}{a}\right)} \]

11. Taylor expanded in b around 0 98.2%

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

12. Final simplification 98.2%

    \[\leadsto 1 \]
13. Add Preprocessing

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2024050 
(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)))))