NMSE Section 6.1 mentioned, B

Percentage Accurate: 78.4% → 99.7%
Time: 8.2s
Alternatives: 8
Speedup: 2.4×

Specification

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\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (* (* (/ (PI) 2.0) (/ 1.0 (- (* b b) (* a a)))) (- (/ 1.0 a) (/ 1.0 b))))
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\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)
\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 8 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: 78.4% accurate, 1.0× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (* (* (/ (PI) 2.0) (/ 1.0 (- (* b b) (* a a)))) (- (/ 1.0 a) (/ 1.0 b))))
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\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)
\end{array}

Alternative 1: 99.7% accurate, 2.0× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b \cdot a} \cdot 0.5}{b + a} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (/ (* (/ (PI) (* b a)) 0.5) (+ b a)))
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\frac{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b \cdot a} \cdot 0.5}{b + a}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 79.3%

    \[\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
  2. Add Preprocessing
  3. Applied rewrites90.5%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{a + b}, \frac{0.5}{b - a} \cdot {a}^{-1}, \frac{\frac{0.5}{a + b} \cdot \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b - a}}{-b}\right)} \]
  4. Applied rewrites99.7%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{0.5 \cdot \left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{a \cdot b} \cdot 1\right)}{a + b}} \]
  5. Final simplification99.7%

    \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b \cdot a} \cdot 0.5}{b + a} \]
  6. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 2: 99.6% accurate, 2.0× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{0.5}{b + a} \cdot \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b \cdot a} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (* (/ 0.5 (+ b a)) (/ (PI) (* b a))))
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\frac{0.5}{b + a} \cdot \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b \cdot a}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 79.3%

    \[\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
  2. Add Preprocessing
  3. Applied rewrites90.5%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{a + b}, \frac{0.5}{b - a} \cdot {a}^{-1}, \frac{\frac{0.5}{a + b} \cdot \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b - a}}{-b}\right)} \]
  4. Applied rewrites99.7%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\color{blue}{b \cdot a}} \cdot \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{a + b} \]
    11. lower-/.f6499.6

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b \cdot a} \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{0.5}{a + b}} \]
    12. lift-+.f64N/A

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

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b \cdot a} \cdot \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\color{blue}{b + a}} \]
    14. lower-+.f6499.6

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b \cdot a} \cdot \frac{0.5}{\color{blue}{b + a}} \]
  6. Applied rewrites99.6%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b \cdot a} \cdot \frac{0.5}{b + a}} \]
  7. Final simplification99.6%

    \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{b + a} \cdot \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b \cdot a} \]
  8. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 3: 72.5% accurate, 2.2× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 8.4 \cdot 10^{-13}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(b \cdot a\right) \cdot a} \cdot 0.5\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot a} \cdot 0.5\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b 8.4e-13)
   (* (/ (PI) (* (* b a) a)) 0.5)
   (* (/ (PI) (* (* b b) a)) 0.5)))
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\begin{array}{l}
\mathbf{if}\;b \leq 8.4 \cdot 10^{-13}:\\
\;\;\;\;\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(b \cdot a\right) \cdot a} \cdot 0.5\\

\mathbf{else}:\\
\;\;\;\;\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot a} \cdot 0.5\\


\end{array}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Split input into 2 regimes
  2. if b < 8.39999999999999955e-13

    1. Initial program 80.8%

      \[\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
    2. Add Preprocessing
    3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{{a}^{2} \cdot b}} \]
    4. Step-by-step derivation
      1. *-commutativeN/A

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

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

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

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

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

        \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\color{blue}{b \cdot {a}^{2}}} \cdot \frac{1}{2} \]
      7. unpow2N/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)}} \cdot \frac{1}{2} \]
      8. lower-*.f6465.4

        \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)}} \cdot 0.5 \]
    5. Applied rewrites65.4%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot 0.5} \]
    6. Step-by-step derivation
      1. Applied rewrites72.8%

        \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot b\right) \cdot a} \cdot 0.5 \]

      if 8.39999999999999955e-13 < b

      1. Initial program 74.9%

        \[\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
      2. Add Preprocessing
      3. Taylor expanded in b around inf

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{a \cdot {b}^{2}}} \]
      4. Step-by-step derivation
        1. *-commutativeN/A

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

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

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

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

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

          \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\color{blue}{{b}^{2} \cdot a}} \cdot \frac{1}{2} \]
        7. unpow2N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\color{blue}{\left(b \cdot b\right)} \cdot a} \cdot \frac{1}{2} \]
        8. lower-*.f6483.7

          \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\color{blue}{\left(b \cdot b\right)} \cdot a} \cdot 0.5 \]
      5. Applied rewrites83.7%

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot a} \cdot 0.5} \]
    7. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
    8. Final simplification75.6%

      \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 8.4 \cdot 10^{-13}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(b \cdot a\right) \cdot a} \cdot 0.5\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot a} \cdot 0.5\\ \end{array} \]
    9. Add Preprocessing

    Alternative 4: 99.0% accurate, 2.4× speedup?

    \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(2 \cdot \left(b + a\right)\right) \cdot \left(b \cdot a\right)} \end{array} \]
    (FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (/ (PI) (* (* 2.0 (+ b a)) (* b a))))
    \begin{array}{l}
    
    \\
    \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(2 \cdot \left(b + a\right)\right) \cdot \left(b \cdot a\right)}
    \end{array}
    
    Derivation
    1. Initial program 79.3%

      \[\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
    2. Add Preprocessing
    3. Applied rewrites90.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{a + b}, \frac{0.5}{b - a} \cdot {a}^{-1}, \frac{\frac{0.5}{a + b} \cdot \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b - a}}{-b}\right)} \]
    4. Applied rewrites99.7%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

        \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\color{blue}{b \cdot a}} \cdot \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{a + b} \]
      11. lower-/.f6499.6

        \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b \cdot a} \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{0.5}{a + b}} \]
      12. lift-+.f64N/A

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

        \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b \cdot a} \cdot \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\color{blue}{b + a}} \]
      14. lower-+.f6499.6

        \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b \cdot a} \cdot \frac{0.5}{\color{blue}{b + a}} \]
    6. Applied rewrites99.6%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

        \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(\left(a + b\right) \cdot 2\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot b\right)}} \]
      18. lift-*.f6499.2

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

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(\left(a + b\right) \cdot 2\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot b\right)}} \]
    9. Final simplification99.2%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(2 \cdot \left(b + a\right)\right) \cdot \left(b \cdot a\right)} \]
    10. Add Preprocessing

    Alternative 5: 93.3% accurate, 2.4× speedup?

    \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{0.5}{\left(\left(b + a\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot a} \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \end{array} \]
    (FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (* (/ 0.5 (* (* (+ b a) b) a)) (PI)))
    \begin{array}{l}
    
    \\
    \frac{0.5}{\left(\left(b + a\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot a} \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)
    \end{array}
    
    Derivation
    1. Initial program 79.3%

      \[\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
    2. Add Preprocessing
    3. Applied rewrites90.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{a + b}, \frac{0.5}{b - a} \cdot {a}^{-1}, \frac{\frac{0.5}{a + b} \cdot \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b - a}}{-b}\right)} \]
    4. Applied rewrites99.7%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

        \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\color{blue}{b \cdot a}} \cdot \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{a + b} \]
      11. lower-/.f6499.6

        \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b \cdot a} \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{0.5}{a + b}} \]
      12. lift-+.f64N/A

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

        \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b \cdot a} \cdot \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\color{blue}{b + a}} \]
      14. lower-+.f6499.6

        \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b \cdot a} \cdot \frac{0.5}{\color{blue}{b + a}} \]
    6. Applied rewrites99.6%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

        \[\leadsto \mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\left(\left(b + a\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot a}} \]
      12. lower-*.f6492.6

        \[\leadsto \mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{\color{blue}{\left(\left(b + a\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot a}} \]
      13. lift-+.f64N/A

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

        \[\leadsto \mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\left(\color{blue}{\left(a + b\right)} \cdot b\right) \cdot a} \]
      15. lower-+.f6492.6

        \[\leadsto \mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{\left(\color{blue}{\left(a + b\right)} \cdot b\right) \cdot a} \]
    8. Applied rewrites92.6%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{\left(\left(a + b\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot a}} \]
    9. Final simplification92.6%

      \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{\left(\left(b + a\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot a} \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \]
    10. Add Preprocessing

    Alternative 6: 63.5% accurate, 2.6× speedup?

    \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(b \cdot a\right) \cdot a} \cdot 0.5 \end{array} \]
    (FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (* (/ (PI) (* (* b a) a)) 0.5))
    \begin{array}{l}
    
    \\
    \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(b \cdot a\right) \cdot a} \cdot 0.5
    \end{array}
    
    Derivation
    1. Initial program 79.3%

      \[\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
    2. Add Preprocessing
    3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{{a}^{2} \cdot b}} \]
    4. Step-by-step derivation
      1. *-commutativeN/A

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

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

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

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

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

        \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\color{blue}{b \cdot {a}^{2}}} \cdot \frac{1}{2} \]
      7. unpow2N/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)}} \cdot \frac{1}{2} \]
      8. lower-*.f6458.2

        \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)}} \cdot 0.5 \]
    5. Applied rewrites58.2%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot 0.5} \]
    6. Step-by-step derivation
      1. Applied rewrites63.7%

        \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot b\right) \cdot a} \cdot 0.5 \]
      2. Final simplification63.7%

        \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(b \cdot a\right) \cdot a} \cdot 0.5 \]
      3. Add Preprocessing

      Alternative 7: 57.8% accurate, 2.6× speedup?

      \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot b} \cdot 0.5 \end{array} \]
      (FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (* (/ (PI) (* (* a a) b)) 0.5))
      \begin{array}{l}
      
      \\
      \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot b} \cdot 0.5
      \end{array}
      
      Derivation
      1. Initial program 79.3%

        \[\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
      2. Add Preprocessing
      3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{{a}^{2} \cdot b}} \]
      4. Step-by-step derivation
        1. *-commutativeN/A

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

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

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

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

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

          \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\color{blue}{b \cdot {a}^{2}}} \cdot \frac{1}{2} \]
        7. unpow2N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)}} \cdot \frac{1}{2} \]
        8. lower-*.f6458.2

          \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)}} \cdot 0.5 \]
      5. Applied rewrites58.2%

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot 0.5} \]
      6. Final simplification58.2%

        \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot b} \cdot 0.5 \]
      7. Add Preprocessing

      Alternative 8: 57.8% accurate, 2.6× speedup?

      \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{0.5}{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot b} \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \end{array} \]
      (FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (* (/ 0.5 (* (* a a) b)) (PI)))
      \begin{array}{l}
      
      \\
      \frac{0.5}{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot b} \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)
      \end{array}
      
      Derivation
      1. Initial program 79.3%

        \[\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
      2. Add Preprocessing
      3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{{a}^{2} \cdot b}} \]
      4. Step-by-step derivation
        1. *-commutativeN/A

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

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

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

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

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

          \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\color{blue}{b \cdot {a}^{2}}} \cdot \frac{1}{2} \]
        7. unpow2N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)}} \cdot \frac{1}{2} \]
        8. lower-*.f6458.2

          \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)}} \cdot 0.5 \]
      5. Applied rewrites58.2%

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot 0.5} \]
      6. Step-by-step derivation
        1. Applied rewrites58.2%

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{0.5}{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot b}} \]
        2. Final simplification58.2%

          \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot b} \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \]
        3. Add Preprocessing

        Reproduce

        ?
        herbie shell --seed 2024255 
        (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))))