NMSE Section 6.1 mentioned, B

Percentage Accurate: 77.6% → 99.6%
Time: 11.1s
Alternatives: 10
Speedup: 2.4×

Specification

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\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \left(\frac{\pi}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (* (* (/ PI 2.0) (/ 1.0 (- (* b b) (* a a)))) (- (/ 1.0 a) (/ 1.0 b))))
double code(double a, double b) {
	return ((((double) M_PI) / 2.0) * (1.0 / ((b * b) - (a * a)))) * ((1.0 / a) - (1.0 / b));
}
public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return ((Math.PI / 2.0) * (1.0 / ((b * b) - (a * a)))) * ((1.0 / a) - (1.0 / b));
}
def code(a, b):
	return ((math.pi / 2.0) * (1.0 / ((b * b) - (a * a)))) * ((1.0 / a) - (1.0 / b))
function code(a, b)
	return Float64(Float64(Float64(pi / 2.0) * Float64(1.0 / Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(a * a)))) * Float64(Float64(1.0 / a) - Float64(1.0 / b)))
end
function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = ((pi / 2.0) * (1.0 / ((b * b) - (a * a)))) * ((1.0 / a) - (1.0 / b));
end
code[a_, b_] := N[(N[(N[(Pi / 2.0), $MachinePrecision] * N[(1.0 / N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * N[(N[(1.0 / a), $MachinePrecision] - N[(1.0 / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\left(\frac{\pi}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)
\end{array}

Sampling outcomes in binary64 precision:

Local Percentage Accuracy vs ?

The average percentage accuracy by input value. Horizontal axis shows value of an input variable; the variable is choosen in the title. Vertical axis is accuracy; higher is better. Red represent the original program, while blue represents Herbie's suggestion. These can be toggled with buttons below the plot. The line is an average while dots represent individual samples.

Accuracy vs Speed?

Herbie found 10 alternatives:

AlternativeAccuracySpeedup
The accuracy (vertical axis) and speed (horizontal axis) of each alternatives. Up and to the right is better. The red square shows the initial program, and each blue circle shows an alternative.The line shows the best available speed-accuracy tradeoffs.

Initial Program: 77.6% accurate, 1.0× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \left(\frac{\pi}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (* (* (/ PI 2.0) (/ 1.0 (- (* b b) (* a a)))) (- (/ 1.0 a) (/ 1.0 b))))
double code(double a, double b) {
	return ((((double) M_PI) / 2.0) * (1.0 / ((b * b) - (a * a)))) * ((1.0 / a) - (1.0 / b));
}
public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return ((Math.PI / 2.0) * (1.0 / ((b * b) - (a * a)))) * ((1.0 / a) - (1.0 / b));
}
def code(a, b):
	return ((math.pi / 2.0) * (1.0 / ((b * b) - (a * a)))) * ((1.0 / a) - (1.0 / b))
function code(a, b)
	return Float64(Float64(Float64(pi / 2.0) * Float64(1.0 / Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(a * a)))) * Float64(Float64(1.0 / a) - Float64(1.0 / b)))
end
function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = ((pi / 2.0) * (1.0 / ((b * b) - (a * a)))) * ((1.0 / a) - (1.0 / b));
end
code[a_, b_] := N[(N[(N[(Pi / 2.0), $MachinePrecision] * N[(1.0 / N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * N[(N[(1.0 / a), $MachinePrecision] - N[(1.0 / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\left(\frac{\pi}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)
\end{array}

Alternative 1: 99.6% accurate, 1.7× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\pi}{b + a} \cdot \frac{\frac{0.5}{b}}{a} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (* (/ PI (+ b a)) (/ (/ 0.5 b) a)))
double code(double a, double b) {
	return (((double) M_PI) / (b + a)) * ((0.5 / b) / a);
}
public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return (Math.PI / (b + a)) * ((0.5 / b) / a);
}
def code(a, b):
	return (math.pi / (b + a)) * ((0.5 / b) / a)
function code(a, b)
	return Float64(Float64(pi / Float64(b + a)) * Float64(Float64(0.5 / b) / a))
end
function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = (pi / (b + a)) * ((0.5 / b) / a);
end
code[a_, b_] := N[(N[(Pi / N[(b + a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * N[(N[(0.5 / b), $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\frac{\pi}{b + a} \cdot \frac{\frac{0.5}{b}}{a}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 80.7%

    \[\left(\frac{\pi}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
  2. Add Preprocessing
  3. Step-by-step derivation
    1. lift-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)} \]
    2. lift-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right)} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
    3. lift-/.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
    4. un-div-invN/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{2}}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
    5. lift-/.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{2}}}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
    6. div-invN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{1}{2}}}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
    7. lift--.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{1}{2}}{\color{blue}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
    8. lift-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{1}{2}}{\color{blue}{b \cdot b} - a \cdot a} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
    9. lift-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{1}{2}}{b \cdot b - \color{blue}{a \cdot a}} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
    10. difference-of-squaresN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{1}{2}}{\color{blue}{\left(b + a\right) \cdot \left(b - a\right)}} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
    11. times-fracN/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b + a} \cdot \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{b - a}\right)} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
    12. associate-*l*N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b + a} \cdot \left(\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{b - a} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)\right)} \]
    13. lower-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b + a} \cdot \left(\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{b - a} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)\right)} \]
    14. lower-/.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b + a}} \cdot \left(\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{b - a} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)\right) \]
    15. lower-+.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\color{blue}{b + a}} \cdot \left(\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{b - a} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)\right) \]
    16. lower-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b + a} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{b - a} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)\right)} \]
  4. Applied rewrites99.6%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\pi}{b + a} \cdot \left(\frac{0.5}{b - a} \cdot \frac{b - a}{b \cdot a}\right)} \]
  5. Step-by-step derivation
    1. lift-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b + a} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{b - a} \cdot \frac{b - a}{b \cdot a}\right)} \]
    2. lift-/.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b + a} \cdot \left(\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{b - a} \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{b - a}{b \cdot a}}\right) \]
    3. associate-*r/N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b + a} \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{b - a} \cdot \left(b - a\right)}{b \cdot a}} \]
    4. lift-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b + a} \cdot \frac{\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{b - a} \cdot \left(b - a\right)}{\color{blue}{b \cdot a}} \]
    5. associate-/r*N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b + a} \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{b - a} \cdot \left(b - a\right)}{b}}{a}} \]
    6. lift-/.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b + a} \cdot \frac{\frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{b - a}} \cdot \left(b - a\right)}{b}}{a} \]
    7. div-invN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b + a} \cdot \frac{\frac{\color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b - a}\right)} \cdot \left(b - a\right)}{b}}{a} \]
    8. associate-*l*N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b + a} \cdot \frac{\frac{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{2} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{b - a} \cdot \left(b - a\right)\right)}}{b}}{a} \]
    9. inv-powN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b + a} \cdot \frac{\frac{\frac{1}{2} \cdot \left(\color{blue}{{\left(b - a\right)}^{-1}} \cdot \left(b - a\right)\right)}{b}}{a} \]
    10. pow-plusN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b + a} \cdot \frac{\frac{\frac{1}{2} \cdot \color{blue}{{\left(b - a\right)}^{\left(-1 + 1\right)}}}{b}}{a} \]
    11. metadata-evalN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b + a} \cdot \frac{\frac{\frac{1}{2} \cdot {\left(b - a\right)}^{\color{blue}{0}}}{b}}{a} \]
    12. metadata-evalN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b + a} \cdot \frac{\frac{\frac{1}{2} \cdot \color{blue}{1}}{b}}{a} \]
    13. metadata-evalN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b + a} \cdot \frac{\frac{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{2}}}{b}}{a} \]
    14. lift-/.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b + a} \cdot \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{b}}}{a} \]
    15. lower-/.f6499.7

      \[\leadsto \frac{\pi}{b + a} \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{0.5}{b}}{a}} \]
  6. Applied rewrites99.7%

    \[\leadsto \frac{\pi}{b + a} \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{0.5}{b}}{a}} \]
  7. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 2: 99.7% accurate, 2.0× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\frac{\pi}{b + a}}{2 \cdot \left(b \cdot a\right)} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (/ (/ PI (+ b a)) (* 2.0 (* b a))))
double code(double a, double b) {
	return (((double) M_PI) / (b + a)) / (2.0 * (b * a));
}
public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return (Math.PI / (b + a)) / (2.0 * (b * a));
}
def code(a, b):
	return (math.pi / (b + a)) / (2.0 * (b * a))
function code(a, b)
	return Float64(Float64(pi / Float64(b + a)) / Float64(2.0 * Float64(b * a)))
end
function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = (pi / (b + a)) / (2.0 * (b * a));
end
code[a_, b_] := N[(N[(Pi / N[(b + a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(2.0 * N[(b * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\frac{\frac{\pi}{b + a}}{2 \cdot \left(b \cdot a\right)}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 77.6%

    \[\left(\frac{\pi}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
  2. Add Preprocessing
  3. Step-by-step derivation
    1. lift-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)} \]
    2. lift-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right)} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
    3. lift-/.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
    4. un-div-invN/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{2}}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
    5. lift-/.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{2}}}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
    6. div-invN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{1}{2}}}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
    7. lift--.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{1}{2}}{\color{blue}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
    8. lift-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{1}{2}}{\color{blue}{b \cdot b} - a \cdot a} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
    9. lift-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{1}{2}}{b \cdot b - \color{blue}{a \cdot a}} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
    10. difference-of-squaresN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{1}{2}}{\color{blue}{\left(b + a\right) \cdot \left(b - a\right)}} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
    11. times-fracN/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b + a} \cdot \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{b - a}\right)} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
    12. associate-*l*N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b + a} \cdot \left(\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{b - a} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)\right)} \]
    13. lower-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b + a} \cdot \left(\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{b - a} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)\right)} \]
    14. lower-/.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b + a}} \cdot \left(\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{b - a} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)\right) \]
    15. lower-+.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\color{blue}{b + a}} \cdot \left(\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{b - a} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)\right) \]
    16. lower-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b + a} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{b - a} \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)\right)} \]
  4. Applied rewrites99.5%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\pi}{b + a} \cdot \left(\frac{0.5}{b - a} \cdot \frac{b - a}{b \cdot a}\right)} \]
  5. Step-by-step derivation
    1. lift-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b + a} \cdot \left(\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{b - a} \cdot \frac{b - a}{b \cdot a}\right)} \]
    2. lift-/.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b + a}} \cdot \left(\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{b - a} \cdot \frac{b - a}{b \cdot a}\right) \]
    3. lift-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b + a} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{b - a} \cdot \frac{b - a}{b \cdot a}\right)} \]
    4. lift-/.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b + a} \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{b - a}} \cdot \frac{b - a}{b \cdot a}\right) \]
    5. associate-*l/N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b + a} \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{b - a}{b \cdot a}}{b - a}} \]
    6. frac-timesN/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{b - a}{b \cdot a}\right)}{\left(b + a\right) \cdot \left(b - a\right)}} \]
    7. associate-*l*N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{1}{2}\right) \cdot \frac{b - a}{b \cdot a}}}{\left(b + a\right) \cdot \left(b - a\right)} \]
    8. lift-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{1}{2}\right)} \cdot \frac{b - a}{b \cdot a}}{\left(b + a\right) \cdot \left(b - a\right)} \]
    9. *-commutativeN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{b - a}{b \cdot a} \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{1}{2}\right)}}{\left(b + a\right) \cdot \left(b - a\right)} \]
    10. lift-/.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{b - a}{b \cdot a}} \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{1}{2}\right)}{\left(b + a\right) \cdot \left(b - a\right)} \]
    11. associate-*l/N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\left(b - a\right) \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{1}{2}\right)}{b \cdot a}}}{\left(b + a\right) \cdot \left(b - a\right)} \]
    12. lift-+.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\left(b - a\right) \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{1}{2}\right)}{b \cdot a}}{\color{blue}{\left(b + a\right)} \cdot \left(b - a\right)} \]
    13. lift--.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\left(b - a\right) \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{1}{2}\right)}{b \cdot a}}{\left(b + a\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(b - a\right)}} \]
    14. difference-of-squaresN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\left(b - a\right) \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{1}{2}\right)}{b \cdot a}}{\color{blue}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}} \]
    15. associate-/l/N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(b - a\right) \cdot \left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{1}{2}\right)}{\left(b \cdot b - a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(b \cdot a\right)}} \]
  6. Applied rewrites99.7%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{\pi}{b + a}}{2 \cdot \left(b \cdot a\right)}} \]
  7. Add Preprocessing

Reproduce

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herbie shell --seed 2024223 
(FPCore (a b)
  :name "NMSE Section 6.1 mentioned, B"
  :precision binary64
  (* (* (/ PI 2.0) (/ 1.0 (- (* b b) (* a a)))) (- (/ 1.0 a) (/ 1.0 b))))