Equirectangular approximation to distance on a great circle

Percentage Accurate: 59.3% → 90.8%

Time: 12.9s

Alternatives: 15

Speedup: 5.6×

• 30.7% of points produce a very large (infinite) output. You may want to add a precondition.

Specification

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{\phi_1 + \phi_2}{2}\right)\\ R \cdot \sqrt{t\_0 \cdot t\_0 + \left(\phi_1 - \phi_2\right) \cdot \left(\phi_1 - \phi_2\right)} \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (R lambda1 lambda2 phi1 phi2)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0 (* (- lambda1 lambda2) (cos (/ (+ phi1 phi2) 2.0)))))
   (* R (sqrt (+ (* t_0 t_0) (* (- phi1 phi2) (- phi1 phi2)))))))

C

double code(double R, double lambda1, double lambda2, double phi1, double phi2) {
	double t_0 = (lambda1 - lambda2) * cos(((phi1 + phi2) / 2.0));
	return R * sqrt(((t_0 * t_0) + ((phi1 - phi2) * (phi1 - phi2))));
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(r, lambda1, lambda2, phi1, phi2)
    real(8), intent (in) :: r
    real(8), intent (in) :: lambda1
    real(8), intent (in) :: lambda2
    real(8), intent (in) :: phi1
    real(8), intent (in) :: phi2
    real(8) :: t_0
    t_0 = (lambda1 - lambda2) * cos(((phi1 + phi2) / 2.0d0))
    code = r * sqrt(((t_0 * t_0) + ((phi1 - phi2) * (phi1 - phi2))))
end function

Java

public static double code(double R, double lambda1, double lambda2, double phi1, double phi2) {
	double t_0 = (lambda1 - lambda2) * Math.cos(((phi1 + phi2) / 2.0));
	return R * Math.sqrt(((t_0 * t_0) + ((phi1 - phi2) * (phi1 - phi2))));
}

Python

def code(R, lambda1, lambda2, phi1, phi2):
	t_0 = (lambda1 - lambda2) * math.cos(((phi1 + phi2) / 2.0))
	return R * math.sqrt(((t_0 * t_0) + ((phi1 - phi2) * (phi1 - phi2))))

Julia

function code(R, lambda1, lambda2, phi1, phi2)
	t_0 = Float64(Float64(lambda1 - lambda2) * cos(Float64(Float64(phi1 + phi2) / 2.0)))
	return Float64(R * sqrt(Float64(Float64(t_0 * t_0) + Float64(Float64(phi1 - phi2) * Float64(phi1 - phi2)))))
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(R, lambda1, lambda2, phi1, phi2)
	t_0 = (lambda1 - lambda2) * cos(((phi1 + phi2) / 2.0));
	tmp = R * sqrt(((t_0 * t_0) + ((phi1 - phi2) * (phi1 - phi2))));
end

Wolfram

code[R_, lambda1_, lambda2_, phi1_, phi2_] := Block[{t$95$0 = N[(N[(lambda1 - lambda2), $MachinePrecision] * N[Cos[N[(N[(phi1 + phi2), $MachinePrecision] / 2.0), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]}, N[(R * N[Sqrt[N[(N[(t$95$0 * t$95$0), $MachinePrecision] + N[(N[(phi1 - phi2), $MachinePrecision] * N[(phi1 - phi2), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Initial Program: 59.3% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{\phi_1 + \phi_2}{2}\right)\\ R \cdot \sqrt{t\_0 \cdot t\_0 + \left(\phi_1 - \phi_2\right) \cdot \left(\phi_1 - \phi_2\right)} \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (R lambda1 lambda2 phi1 phi2)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0 (* (- lambda1 lambda2) (cos (/ (+ phi1 phi2) 2.0)))))
   (* R (sqrt (+ (* t_0 t_0) (* (- phi1 phi2) (- phi1 phi2)))))))

C

double code(double R, double lambda1, double lambda2, double phi1, double phi2) {
	double t_0 = (lambda1 - lambda2) * cos(((phi1 + phi2) / 2.0));
	return R * sqrt(((t_0 * t_0) + ((phi1 - phi2) * (phi1 - phi2))));
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(r, lambda1, lambda2, phi1, phi2)
    real(8), intent (in) :: r
    real(8), intent (in) :: lambda1
    real(8), intent (in) :: lambda2
    real(8), intent (in) :: phi1
    real(8), intent (in) :: phi2
    real(8) :: t_0
    t_0 = (lambda1 - lambda2) * cos(((phi1 + phi2) / 2.0d0))
    code = r * sqrt(((t_0 * t_0) + ((phi1 - phi2) * (phi1 - phi2))))
end function

Java

public static double code(double R, double lambda1, double lambda2, double phi1, double phi2) {
	double t_0 = (lambda1 - lambda2) * Math.cos(((phi1 + phi2) / 2.0));
	return R * Math.sqrt(((t_0 * t_0) + ((phi1 - phi2) * (phi1 - phi2))));
}

Python

def code(R, lambda1, lambda2, phi1, phi2):
	t_0 = (lambda1 - lambda2) * math.cos(((phi1 + phi2) / 2.0))
	return R * math.sqrt(((t_0 * t_0) + ((phi1 - phi2) * (phi1 - phi2))))

Julia

function code(R, lambda1, lambda2, phi1, phi2)
	t_0 = Float64(Float64(lambda1 - lambda2) * cos(Float64(Float64(phi1 + phi2) / 2.0)))
	return Float64(R * sqrt(Float64(Float64(t_0 * t_0) + Float64(Float64(phi1 - phi2) * Float64(phi1 - phi2)))))
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(R, lambda1, lambda2, phi1, phi2)
	t_0 = (lambda1 - lambda2) * cos(((phi1 + phi2) / 2.0));
	tmp = R * sqrt(((t_0 * t_0) + ((phi1 - phi2) * (phi1 - phi2))));
end

Wolfram

code[R_, lambda1_, lambda2_, phi1_, phi2_] := Block[{t$95$0 = N[(N[(lambda1 - lambda2), $MachinePrecision] * N[Cos[N[(N[(phi1 + phi2), $MachinePrecision] / 2.0), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]}, N[(R * N[Sqrt[N[(N[(t$95$0 * t$95$0), $MachinePrecision] + N[(N[(phi1 - phi2), $MachinePrecision] * N[(phi1 - phi2), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Alternative 1: 90.8% accurate, 1.2× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} [R, lambda1, lambda2, phi1, phi2] = \mathsf{sort}([R, lambda1, lambda2, phi1, phi2])\\ \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\phi_2 \leq 9.6 \cdot 10^{-30}:\\ \;\;\;\;R \cdot \mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_1, \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\phi_1 \cdot 0.5\right)\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;R \cdot \mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_2, \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\phi_2 \cdot 0.5\right)\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

NOTE: R, lambda1, lambda2, phi1, and phi2 should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
(FPCore (R lambda1 lambda2 phi1 phi2)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= phi2 9.6e-30)
   (* R (hypot phi1 (* (- lambda1 lambda2) (cos (* phi1 0.5)))))
   (* R (hypot phi2 (* (- lambda1 lambda2) (cos (* phi2 0.5)))))))

C

assert(R < lambda1 && lambda1 < lambda2 && lambda2 < phi1 && phi1 < phi2);
double code(double R, double lambda1, double lambda2, double phi1, double phi2) {
	double tmp;
	if (phi2 <= 9.6e-30) {
		tmp = R * hypot(phi1, ((lambda1 - lambda2) * cos((phi1 * 0.5))));
	} else {
		tmp = R * hypot(phi2, ((lambda1 - lambda2) * cos((phi2 * 0.5))));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Java

assert R < lambda1 && lambda1 < lambda2 && lambda2 < phi1 && phi1 < phi2;
public static double code(double R, double lambda1, double lambda2, double phi1, double phi2) {
	double tmp;
	if (phi2 <= 9.6e-30) {
		tmp = R * Math.hypot(phi1, ((lambda1 - lambda2) * Math.cos((phi1 * 0.5))));
	} else {
		tmp = R * Math.hypot(phi2, ((lambda1 - lambda2) * Math.cos((phi2 * 0.5))));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

[R, lambda1, lambda2, phi1, phi2] = sort([R, lambda1, lambda2, phi1, phi2])
def code(R, lambda1, lambda2, phi1, phi2):
	tmp = 0
	if phi2 <= 9.6e-30:
		tmp = R * math.hypot(phi1, ((lambda1 - lambda2) * math.cos((phi1 * 0.5))))
	else:
		tmp = R * math.hypot(phi2, ((lambda1 - lambda2) * math.cos((phi2 * 0.5))))
	return tmp

Julia

R, lambda1, lambda2, phi1, phi2 = sort([R, lambda1, lambda2, phi1, phi2])
function code(R, lambda1, lambda2, phi1, phi2)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (phi2 <= 9.6e-30)
		tmp = Float64(R * hypot(phi1, Float64(Float64(lambda1 - lambda2) * cos(Float64(phi1 * 0.5)))));
	else
		tmp = Float64(R * hypot(phi2, Float64(Float64(lambda1 - lambda2) * cos(Float64(phi2 * 0.5)))));
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

R, lambda1, lambda2, phi1, phi2 = num2cell(sort([R, lambda1, lambda2, phi1, phi2])){:}
function tmp_2 = code(R, lambda1, lambda2, phi1, phi2)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (phi2 <= 9.6e-30)
		tmp = R * hypot(phi1, ((lambda1 - lambda2) * cos((phi1 * 0.5))));
	else
		tmp = R * hypot(phi2, ((lambda1 - lambda2) * cos((phi2 * 0.5))));
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

NOTE: R, lambda1, lambda2, phi1, and phi2 should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
code[R_, lambda1_, lambda2_, phi1_, phi2_] := If[LessEqual[phi2, 9.6e-30], N[(R * N[Sqrt[phi1 ^ 2 + N[(N[(lambda1 - lambda2), $MachinePrecision] * N[Cos[N[(phi1 * 0.5), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] ^ 2], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(R * N[Sqrt[phi2 ^ 2 + N[(N[(lambda1 - lambda2), $MachinePrecision] * N[Cos[N[(phi2 * 0.5), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] ^ 2], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if phi2 < 9.5999999999999994e-30

   1. Initial program 69.4%

      \[R \cdot \sqrt{\left(\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{\phi_1 + \phi_2}{2}\right)\right) \cdot \left(\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{\phi_1 + \phi_2}{2}\right)\right) + \left(\phi_1 - \phi_2\right) \cdot \left(\phi_1 - \phi_2\right)} \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in phi2 around 0

      \[\leadsto R \cdot \color{blue}{\sqrt{{\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_1\right)}^{2} \cdot {\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)}^{2} + {\phi_1}^{2}}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \sqrt{\color{blue}{{\phi_1}^{2} + {\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_1\right)}^{2} \cdot {\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)}^{2}}} \]

      2. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \sqrt{\color{blue}{\phi_1 \cdot \phi_1} + {\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_1\right)}^{2} \cdot {\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)}^{2}} \]

      3. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \sqrt{\phi_1 \cdot \phi_1 + \color{blue}{\left(\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_1\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_1\right)\right)} \cdot {\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)}^{2}} \]

      4. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \sqrt{\phi_1 \cdot \phi_1 + \left(\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_1\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_1\right)\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)\right)}} \]

      5. unswap-sqr N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \sqrt{\phi_1 \cdot \phi_1 + \color{blue}{\left(\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_1\right) \cdot \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)\right) \cdot \left(\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_1\right) \cdot \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)\right)}} \]

      6. lower-hypot.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \color{blue}{\mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_1, \cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_1\right) \cdot \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)\right)} \]

      7. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_1, \color{blue}{\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_1\right)}\right) \]

      8. lower-*.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_1, \color{blue}{\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_1\right)}\right) \]

      9. lower--.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_1, \color{blue}{\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)} \cdot \cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_1\right)\right) \]

      10. lower-cos.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto R \cdot \mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_1, \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_1\right)}\right) \]

      11. lower-*.f64 97.1

          \[\leadsto R \cdot \mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_1, \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \color{blue}{\left(0.5 \cdot \phi_1\right)}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 97.1%

      \[\leadsto R \cdot \color{blue}{\mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_1, \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(0.5 \cdot \phi_1\right)\right)} \]

   if 9.5999999999999994e-30 < phi2

   1. Initial program 60.3%

      \[R \cdot \sqrt{\left(\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{\phi_1 + \phi_2}{2}\right)\right) \cdot \left(\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{\phi_1 + \phi_2}{2}\right)\right) + \left(\phi_1 - \phi_2\right) \cdot \left(\phi_1 - \phi_2\right)} \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in phi1 around 0

      \[\leadsto R \cdot \color{blue}{\sqrt{{\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_2\right)}^{2} \cdot {\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)}^{2} + {\phi_2}^{2}}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \sqrt{\color{blue}{{\phi_2}^{2} + {\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_2\right)}^{2} \cdot {\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)}^{2}}} \]

      2. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \sqrt{\color{blue}{\phi_2 \cdot \phi_2} + {\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_2\right)}^{2} \cdot {\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)}^{2}} \]

      3. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \sqrt{\phi_2 \cdot \phi_2 + \color{blue}{\left(\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_2\right)\right)} \cdot {\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)}^{2}} \]

      4. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \sqrt{\phi_2 \cdot \phi_2 + \left(\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_2\right)\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)\right)}} \]

      5. unswap-sqr N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \sqrt{\phi_2 \cdot \phi_2 + \color{blue}{\left(\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_2\right) \cdot \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)\right) \cdot \left(\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_2\right) \cdot \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)\right)}} \]

      6. lower-hypot.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \color{blue}{\mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_2, \cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_2\right) \cdot \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)\right)} \]

      7. lower-*.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_2, \color{blue}{\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_2\right) \cdot \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)}\right) \]

      8. lower-cos.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_2, \color{blue}{\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_2\right)} \cdot \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)\right) \]

      9. lower-*.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_2, \cos \color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_2\right)} \cdot \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)\right) \]

      10. lower--.f64 88.2

          \[\leadsto R \cdot \mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_2, \cos \left(0.5 \cdot \phi_2\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 88.2%

      \[\leadsto R \cdot \color{blue}{\mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_2, \cos \left(0.5 \cdot \phi_2\right) \cdot \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)\right)} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 92.9%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\phi_2 \leq 9.6 \cdot 10^{-30}:\\ \;\;\;\;R \cdot \mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_1, \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\phi_1 \cdot 0.5\right)\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;R \cdot \mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_2, \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\phi_2 \cdot 0.5\right)\right)\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 2: 85.5% accurate, 1.2× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} [R, lambda1, lambda2, phi1, phi2] = \mathsf{sort}([R, lambda1, lambda2, phi1, phi2])\\ \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\phi_2 \leq 9.6 \cdot 10^{-30}:\\ \;\;\;\;R \cdot \mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_1, \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\phi_1 \cdot 0.5\right)\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;R \cdot \mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_2, \lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

NOTE: R, lambda1, lambda2, phi1, and phi2 should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
(FPCore (R lambda1 lambda2 phi1 phi2)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= phi2 9.6e-30)
   (* R (hypot phi1 (* (- lambda1 lambda2) (cos (* phi1 0.5)))))
   (* R (hypot phi2 (- lambda1 lambda2)))))

C

assert(R < lambda1 && lambda1 < lambda2 && lambda2 < phi1 && phi1 < phi2);
double code(double R, double lambda1, double lambda2, double phi1, double phi2) {
	double tmp;
	if (phi2 <= 9.6e-30) {
		tmp = R * hypot(phi1, ((lambda1 - lambda2) * cos((phi1 * 0.5))));
	} else {
		tmp = R * hypot(phi2, (lambda1 - lambda2));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Java

assert R < lambda1 && lambda1 < lambda2 && lambda2 < phi1 && phi1 < phi2;
public static double code(double R, double lambda1, double lambda2, double phi1, double phi2) {
	double tmp;
	if (phi2 <= 9.6e-30) {
		tmp = R * Math.hypot(phi1, ((lambda1 - lambda2) * Math.cos((phi1 * 0.5))));
	} else {
		tmp = R * Math.hypot(phi2, (lambda1 - lambda2));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

[R, lambda1, lambda2, phi1, phi2] = sort([R, lambda1, lambda2, phi1, phi2])
def code(R, lambda1, lambda2, phi1, phi2):
	tmp = 0
	if phi2 <= 9.6e-30:
		tmp = R * math.hypot(phi1, ((lambda1 - lambda2) * math.cos((phi1 * 0.5))))
	else:
		tmp = R * math.hypot(phi2, (lambda1 - lambda2))
	return tmp

Julia

R, lambda1, lambda2, phi1, phi2 = sort([R, lambda1, lambda2, phi1, phi2])
function code(R, lambda1, lambda2, phi1, phi2)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (phi2 <= 9.6e-30)
		tmp = Float64(R * hypot(phi1, Float64(Float64(lambda1 - lambda2) * cos(Float64(phi1 * 0.5)))));
	else
		tmp = Float64(R * hypot(phi2, Float64(lambda1 - lambda2)));
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

R, lambda1, lambda2, phi1, phi2 = num2cell(sort([R, lambda1, lambda2, phi1, phi2])){:}
function tmp_2 = code(R, lambda1, lambda2, phi1, phi2)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (phi2 <= 9.6e-30)
		tmp = R * hypot(phi1, ((lambda1 - lambda2) * cos((phi1 * 0.5))));
	else
		tmp = R * hypot(phi2, (lambda1 - lambda2));
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

NOTE: R, lambda1, lambda2, phi1, and phi2 should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
code[R_, lambda1_, lambda2_, phi1_, phi2_] := If[LessEqual[phi2, 9.6e-30], N[(R * N[Sqrt[phi1 ^ 2 + N[(N[(lambda1 - lambda2), $MachinePrecision] * N[Cos[N[(phi1 * 0.5), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] ^ 2], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(R * N[Sqrt[phi2 ^ 2 + N[(lambda1 - lambda2), $MachinePrecision] ^ 2], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if phi2 < 9.5999999999999994e-30

   1. Initial program 63.2%

      \[R \cdot \sqrt{\left(\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{\phi_1 + \phi_2}{2}\right)\right) \cdot \left(\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{\phi_1 + \phi_2}{2}\right)\right) + \left(\phi_1 - \phi_2\right) \cdot \left(\phi_1 - \phi_2\right)} \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in phi2 around 0

      \[\leadsto R \cdot \color{blue}{\sqrt{{\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_1\right)}^{2} \cdot {\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)}^{2} + {\phi_1}^{2}}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \sqrt{\color{blue}{{\phi_1}^{2} + {\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_1\right)}^{2} \cdot {\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)}^{2}}} \]

      2. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \sqrt{\color{blue}{\phi_1 \cdot \phi_1} + {\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_1\right)}^{2} \cdot {\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)}^{2}} \]

      3. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \sqrt{\phi_1 \cdot \phi_1 + \color{blue}{\left(\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_1\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_1\right)\right)} \cdot {\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)}^{2}} \]

      4. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \sqrt{\phi_1 \cdot \phi_1 + \left(\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_1\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_1\right)\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)\right)}} \]

      5. unswap-sqr N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \sqrt{\phi_1 \cdot \phi_1 + \color{blue}{\left(\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_1\right) \cdot \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)\right) \cdot \left(\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_1\right) \cdot \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)\right)}} \]

      6. lower-hypot.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \color{blue}{\mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_1, \cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_1\right) \cdot \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)\right)} \]

      7. *-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_1, \color{blue}{\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_1\right)}\right) \]

      8. lower-*.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_1, \color{blue}{\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_1\right)}\right) \]

      9. lower--.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_1, \color{blue}{\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)} \cdot \cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_1\right)\right) \]

      10. lower-cos.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto R \cdot \mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_1, \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_1\right)}\right) \]

      11. lower-*.f64 96.5

          \[\leadsto R \cdot \mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_1, \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \color{blue}{\left(0.5 \cdot \phi_1\right)}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 96.5%

      \[\leadsto R \cdot \color{blue}{\mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_1, \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(0.5 \cdot \phi_1\right)\right)} \]

   if 9.5999999999999994e-30 < phi2

   1. Initial program 54.9%

      \[R \cdot \sqrt{\left(\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{\phi_1 + \phi_2}{2}\right)\right) \cdot \left(\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{\phi_1 + \phi_2}{2}\right)\right) + \left(\phi_1 - \phi_2\right) \cdot \left(\phi_1 - \phi_2\right)} \]
   2. Add Preprocessing

   3. Taylor expanded in phi1 around 0

      \[\leadsto R \cdot \color{blue}{\sqrt{{\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_2\right)}^{2} \cdot {\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)}^{2} + {\phi_2}^{2}}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \sqrt{\color{blue}{{\phi_2}^{2} + {\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_2\right)}^{2} \cdot {\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)}^{2}}} \]

      2. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \sqrt{\color{blue}{\phi_2 \cdot \phi_2} + {\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_2\right)}^{2} \cdot {\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)}^{2}} \]

      3. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \sqrt{\phi_2 \cdot \phi_2 + \color{blue}{\left(\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_2\right)\right)} \cdot {\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)}^{2}} \]

      4. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \sqrt{\phi_2 \cdot \phi_2 + \left(\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_2\right)\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)\right)}} \]

      5. unswap-sqr N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \sqrt{\phi_2 \cdot \phi_2 + \color{blue}{\left(\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_2\right) \cdot \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)\right) \cdot \left(\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_2\right) \cdot \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)\right)}} \]

      6. lower-hypot.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \color{blue}{\mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_2, \cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_2\right) \cdot \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)\right)} \]

      7. lower-*.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_2, \color{blue}{\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_2\right) \cdot \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)}\right) \]

      8. lower-cos.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_2, \color{blue}{\cos \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_2\right)} \cdot \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)\right) \]

      9. lower-*.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto R \cdot \mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_2, \cos \color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \phi_2\right)} \cdot \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)\right) \]

      10. lower--.f64 84.6

          \[\leadsto R \cdot \mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_2, \cos \left(0.5 \cdot \phi_2\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)}\right) \]

   5. Applied rewrites 84.6%

      \[\leadsto R \cdot \color{blue}{\mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_2, \cos \left(0.5 \cdot \phi_2\right) \cdot \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)\right)} \]

   6. Taylor expanded in phi2 around 0

      \[\leadsto R \cdot \mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_2, \lambda_1 - \color{blue}{\lambda_2}\right) \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

   8. Applied rewrites 73.3%

      \[\leadsto R \cdot \mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_2, \lambda_1 - \color{blue}{\lambda_2}\right) \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 85.5%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\phi_2 \leq 9.6 \cdot 10^{-30}:\\ \;\;\;\;R \cdot \mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_1, \left(\lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right) \cdot \cos \left(\phi_1 \cdot 0.5\right)\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;R \cdot \mathsf{hypot}\left(\phi_2, \lambda_1 - \lambda_2\right)\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2024230 
(FPCore (R lambda1 lambda2 phi1 phi2)
  :name "Equirectangular approximation to distance on a great circle"
  :precision binary64
  (* R (sqrt (+ (* (* (- lambda1 lambda2) (cos (/ (+ phi1 phi2) 2.0))) (* (- lambda1 lambda2) (cos (/ (+ phi1 phi2) 2.0)))) (* (- phi1 phi2) (- phi1 phi2))))))