Bouland and Aaronson, Equation (25)

Percentage Accurate: 73.3% → 98.3%

Time: 7.8s

Alternatives: 14

Speedup: 5.7×

• 61.4% of points produce a very large (infinite) output. You may want to add a precondition.

Specification

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (-
  (+
   (pow (+ (* a a) (* b b)) 2.0)
   (* 4.0 (+ (* (* a a) (+ 1.0 a)) (* (* b b) (- 1.0 (* 3.0 a))))))
  1.0))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	return (pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + (4.0 * (((a * a) * (1.0 + a)) + ((b * b) * (1.0 - (3.0 * a)))))) - 1.0;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    code = ((((a * a) + (b * b)) ** 2.0d0) + (4.0d0 * (((a * a) * (1.0d0 + a)) + ((b * b) * (1.0d0 - (3.0d0 * a)))))) - 1.0d0
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return (Math.pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + (4.0 * (((a * a) * (1.0 + a)) + ((b * b) * (1.0 - (3.0 * a)))))) - 1.0;
}

Python

def code(a, b):
	return (math.pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + (4.0 * (((a * a) * (1.0 + a)) + ((b * b) * (1.0 - (3.0 * a)))))) - 1.0

Julia

function code(a, b)
	return Float64(Float64((Float64(Float64(a * a) + Float64(b * b)) ^ 2.0) + Float64(4.0 * Float64(Float64(Float64(a * a) * Float64(1.0 + a)) + Float64(Float64(b * b) * Float64(1.0 - Float64(3.0 * a)))))) - 1.0)
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = ((((a * a) + (b * b)) ^ 2.0) + (4.0 * (((a * a) * (1.0 + a)) + ((b * b) * (1.0 - (3.0 * a)))))) - 1.0;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := N[(N[(N[Power[N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] + N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], 2.0], $MachinePrecision] + N[(4.0 * N[(N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * N[(1.0 + a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] * N[(1.0 - N[(3.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - 1.0), $MachinePrecision]

Initial Program: 73.3% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(1 + a\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right)\right)\right) - 1 \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (-
  (+
   (pow (+ (* a a) (* b b)) 2.0)
   (* 4.0 (+ (* (* a a) (+ 1.0 a)) (* (* b b) (- 1.0 (* 3.0 a))))))
  1.0))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	return (pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + (4.0 * (((a * a) * (1.0 + a)) + ((b * b) * (1.0 - (3.0 * a)))))) - 1.0;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    code = ((((a * a) + (b * b)) ** 2.0d0) + (4.0d0 * (((a * a) * (1.0d0 + a)) + ((b * b) * (1.0d0 - (3.0d0 * a)))))) - 1.0d0
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return (Math.pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + (4.0 * (((a * a) * (1.0 + a)) + ((b * b) * (1.0 - (3.0 * a)))))) - 1.0;
}

Python

def code(a, b):
	return (math.pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + (4.0 * (((a * a) * (1.0 + a)) + ((b * b) * (1.0 - (3.0 * a)))))) - 1.0

Julia

function code(a, b)
	return Float64(Float64((Float64(Float64(a * a) + Float64(b * b)) ^ 2.0) + Float64(4.0 * Float64(Float64(Float64(a * a) * Float64(1.0 + a)) + Float64(Float64(b * b) * Float64(1.0 - Float64(3.0 * a)))))) - 1.0)
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = ((((a * a) + (b * b)) ^ 2.0) + (4.0 * (((a * a) * (1.0 + a)) + ((b * b) * (1.0 - (3.0 * a)))))) - 1.0;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := N[(N[(N[Power[N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] + N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], 2.0], $MachinePrecision] + N[(4.0 * N[(N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * N[(1.0 + a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] * N[(1.0 - N[(3.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - 1.0), $MachinePrecision]

Alternative 1: 98.3% accurate, 0.5× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := \left(\left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right) + \left(1 + a\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right)\right) \cdot 4 + {\left(b \cdot b + a \cdot a\right)}^{2}\\ \mathbf{if}\;t\_0 \leq \infty:\\ \;\;\;\;t\_0 - 1\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(4 + a, a, 4\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0
         (+
          (* (+ (* (- 1.0 (* 3.0 a)) (* b b)) (* (+ 1.0 a) (* a a))) 4.0)
          (pow (+ (* b b) (* a a)) 2.0))))
   (if (<= t_0 INFINITY)
     (- t_0 1.0)
     (fma (* (fma (+ 4.0 a) a 4.0) a) a -1.0))))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double t_0 = ((((1.0 - (3.0 * a)) * (b * b)) + ((1.0 + a) * (a * a))) * 4.0) + pow(((b * b) + (a * a)), 2.0);
	double tmp;
	if (t_0 <= ((double) INFINITY)) {
		tmp = t_0 - 1.0;
	} else {
		tmp = fma((fma((4.0 + a), a, 4.0) * a), a, -1.0);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b)
	t_0 = Float64(Float64(Float64(Float64(Float64(1.0 - Float64(3.0 * a)) * Float64(b * b)) + Float64(Float64(1.0 + a) * Float64(a * a))) * 4.0) + (Float64(Float64(b * b) + Float64(a * a)) ^ 2.0))
	tmp = 0.0
	if (t_0 <= Inf)
		tmp = Float64(t_0 - 1.0);
	else
		tmp = fma(Float64(fma(Float64(4.0 + a), a, 4.0) * a), a, -1.0);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := Block[{t$95$0 = N[(N[(N[(N[(N[(1.0 - N[(3.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[(N[(1.0 + a), $MachinePrecision] * N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * 4.0), $MachinePrecision] + N[Power[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] + N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], 2.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]}, If[LessEqual[t$95$0, Infinity], N[(t$95$0 - 1.0), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(N[(N[(4.0 + a), $MachinePrecision] * a + 4.0), $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision] * a + -1.0), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (+.f64 (pow.f64 (+.f64 (*.f64 a a) (*.f64 b b)) #s(literal 2 binary64)) (*.f64 #s(literal 4 binary64) (+.f64 (*.f64 (*.f64 a a) (+.f64 #s(literal 1 binary64) a)) (*.f64 (*.f64 b b) (-.f64 #s(literal 1 binary64) (*.f64 #s(literal 3 binary64) a)))))) < +inf.0

   1. Initial program 99.9%

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

   if +inf.0 < (+.f64 (pow.f64 (+.f64 (*.f64 a a) (*.f64 b b)) #s(literal 2 binary64)) (*.f64 #s(literal 4 binary64) (+.f64 (*.f64 (*.f64 a a) (+.f64 #s(literal 1 binary64) a)) (*.f64 (*.f64 b b) (-.f64 #s(literal 1 binary64) (*.f64 #s(literal 3 binary64) a))))))

   1. Initial program 0.0%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. *-commutative N/A

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

      2. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      3. unpow2 N/A

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

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      5. lower-pow.f64 68.8

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

   5. Applied rewrites 68.8%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around 0

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

      1. sub-neg N/A

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

      2. *-commutative N/A

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

      3. associate-*l* N/A

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

      4. +-commutative N/A

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

      5. distribute-rgt1-in N/A

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

      6. *-commutative N/A

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

      7. metadata-eval N/A

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

      8. pow-sqr N/A

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

      9. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

      10. associate-+r+ N/A

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

      11. unpow2 N/A

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

      12. distribute-rgt-in N/A

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

      13. *-commutative N/A

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

      14. metadata-eval N/A

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

      15. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

   8. Applied rewrites 91.4%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(4 + a, a, 4\right), a \cdot a, -1\right)} \]
   9. Step-by-step derivation

   10. Applied rewrites 91.4%

       \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(4 + a, a, 4\right) \cdot a, \color{blue}{a}, -1\right) \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 97.7%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\left(\left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right) + \left(1 + a\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right)\right) \cdot 4 + {\left(b \cdot b + a \cdot a\right)}^{2} \leq \infty:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\left(\left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right) + \left(1 + a\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right)\right) \cdot 4 + {\left(b \cdot b + a \cdot a\right)}^{2}\right) - 1\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(4 + a, a, 4\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right)\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 2: 94.5% accurate, 1.3× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \cdot b \leq 0.5:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(4 + a, a, 4\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, 4, {b}^{4}\right) - 1\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (* b b) 0.5)
   (fma (* (fma (+ 4.0 a) a 4.0) a) a -1.0)
   (- (fma (* b b) 4.0 (pow b 4.0)) 1.0)))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if ((b * b) <= 0.5) {
		tmp = fma((fma((4.0 + a), a, 4.0) * a), a, -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = fma((b * b), 4.0, pow(b, 4.0)) - 1.0;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(b * b) <= 0.5)
		tmp = fma(Float64(fma(Float64(4.0 + a), a, 4.0) * a), a, -1.0);
	else
		tmp = Float64(fma(Float64(b * b), 4.0, (b ^ 4.0)) - 1.0);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision], 0.5], N[(N[(N[(N[(4.0 + a), $MachinePrecision] * a + 4.0), $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision] * a + -1.0), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] * 4.0 + N[Power[b, 4.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - 1.0), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (*.f64 b b) < 0.5

   1. Initial program 88.2%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. *-commutative N/A

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

      2. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      3. unpow2 N/A

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

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      5. lower-pow.f64 52.5

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

   5. Applied rewrites 52.5%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around 0

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

      1. sub-neg N/A

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

      2. *-commutative N/A

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

      3. associate-*l* N/A

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

      4. +-commutative N/A

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

      5. distribute-rgt1-in N/A

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

      6. *-commutative N/A

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

      7. metadata-eval N/A

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

      8. pow-sqr N/A

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

      9. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

      10. associate-+r+ N/A

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

      11. unpow2 N/A

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

      12. distribute-rgt-in N/A

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

      13. *-commutative N/A

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

      14. metadata-eval N/A

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

      15. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

   8. Applied rewrites 99.9%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(4 + a, a, 4\right), a \cdot a, -1\right)} \]
   9. Step-by-step derivation

   10. Applied rewrites 100.0%

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

   if 0.5 < (*.f64 b b)

   1. Initial program 60.1%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. *-commutative N/A

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

      2. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      3. unpow2 N/A

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

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      5. lower-pow.f64 92.6

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

   5. Applied rewrites 92.6%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, 4, {b}^{4}\right)} - 1 \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
4. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 3: 94.6% accurate, 1.4× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \cdot b \leq 4 \cdot 10^{+27}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(4 + a, a, 4\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;{b}^{4} - 1\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (* b b) 4e+27)
   (fma (* (fma (+ 4.0 a) a 4.0) a) a -1.0)
   (- (pow b 4.0) 1.0)))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if ((b * b) <= 4e+27) {
		tmp = fma((fma((4.0 + a), a, 4.0) * a), a, -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = pow(b, 4.0) - 1.0;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(b * b) <= 4e+27)
		tmp = fma(Float64(fma(Float64(4.0 + a), a, 4.0) * a), a, -1.0);
	else
		tmp = Float64((b ^ 4.0) - 1.0);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision], 4e+27], N[(N[(N[(N[(4.0 + a), $MachinePrecision] * a + 4.0), $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision] * a + -1.0), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[Power[b, 4.0], $MachinePrecision] - 1.0), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (*.f64 b b) < 4.0000000000000001e27

   1. Initial program 87.4%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. *-commutative N/A

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

      2. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      3. unpow2 N/A

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

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      5. lower-pow.f64 52.4

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

   5. Applied rewrites 52.4%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around 0

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

      1. sub-neg N/A

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

      2. *-commutative N/A

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

      3. associate-*l* N/A

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

      4. +-commutative N/A

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

      5. distribute-rgt1-in N/A

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

      6. *-commutative N/A

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

      7. metadata-eval N/A

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

      8. pow-sqr N/A

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

      9. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

      10. associate-+r+ N/A

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

      11. unpow2 N/A

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

      12. distribute-rgt-in N/A

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

      13. *-commutative N/A

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

      14. metadata-eval N/A

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

      15. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

   8. Applied rewrites 97.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(4 + a, a, 4\right), a \cdot a, -1\right)} \]
   9. Step-by-step derivation

   10. Applied rewrites 97.1%

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

   if 4.0000000000000001e27 < (*.f64 b b)

   1. Initial program 59.1%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in b around inf

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{b}^{4}} - 1 \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. lower-pow.f64 95.3

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

   5. Applied rewrites 95.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{b}^{4}} - 1 \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
4. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 4: 94.6% accurate, 1.4× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \cdot b \leq 4 \cdot 10^{+27}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(4 + a, a, 4\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;{b}^{4}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (* b b) 4e+27) (fma (* (fma (+ 4.0 a) a 4.0) a) a -1.0) (pow b 4.0)))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if ((b * b) <= 4e+27) {
		tmp = fma((fma((4.0 + a), a, 4.0) * a), a, -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = pow(b, 4.0);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(b * b) <= 4e+27)
		tmp = fma(Float64(fma(Float64(4.0 + a), a, 4.0) * a), a, -1.0);
	else
		tmp = b ^ 4.0;
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision], 4e+27], N[(N[(N[(N[(4.0 + a), $MachinePrecision] * a + 4.0), $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision] * a + -1.0), $MachinePrecision], N[Power[b, 4.0], $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (*.f64 b b) < 4.0000000000000001e27

   1. Initial program 87.4%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. *-commutative N/A

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

      2. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      3. unpow2 N/A

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

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      5. lower-pow.f64 52.4

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

   5. Applied rewrites 52.4%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around 0

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

      1. sub-neg N/A

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

      2. *-commutative N/A

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

      3. associate-*l* N/A

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

      4. +-commutative N/A

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

      5. distribute-rgt1-in N/A

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

      6. *-commutative N/A

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

      7. metadata-eval N/A

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

      8. pow-sqr N/A

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

      9. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

      10. associate-+r+ N/A

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

      11. unpow2 N/A

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

      12. distribute-rgt-in N/A

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

      13. *-commutative N/A

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

      14. metadata-eval N/A

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

      15. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

   8. Applied rewrites 97.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(4 + a, a, 4\right), a \cdot a, -1\right)} \]
   9. Step-by-step derivation

   10. Applied rewrites 97.1%

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

   if 4.0000000000000001e27 < (*.f64 b b)

   1. Initial program 59.1%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. *-commutative N/A

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

      2. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      3. unpow2 N/A

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

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      5. lower-pow.f64 95.3

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

   5. Applied rewrites 95.3%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around inf

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{b}^{4}} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. lower-pow.f64 95.3

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

   8. Applied rewrites 95.3%

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

Alternative 5: 94.5% accurate, 5.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \cdot b \leq 0.5:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(4 + a, a, 4\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, 4\right), b \cdot b, -1\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (* b b) 0.5)
   (fma (* (fma (+ 4.0 a) a 4.0) a) a -1.0)
   (fma (fma b b 4.0) (* b b) -1.0)))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if ((b * b) <= 0.5) {
		tmp = fma((fma((4.0 + a), a, 4.0) * a), a, -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = fma(fma(b, b, 4.0), (b * b), -1.0);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(b * b) <= 0.5)
		tmp = fma(Float64(fma(Float64(4.0 + a), a, 4.0) * a), a, -1.0);
	else
		tmp = fma(fma(b, b, 4.0), Float64(b * b), -1.0);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision], 0.5], N[(N[(N[(N[(4.0 + a), $MachinePrecision] * a + 4.0), $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision] * a + -1.0), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(b * b + 4.0), $MachinePrecision] * N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] + -1.0), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (*.f64 b b) < 0.5

   1. Initial program 88.2%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. *-commutative N/A

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

      2. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      3. unpow2 N/A

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

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      5. lower-pow.f64 52.5

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

   5. Applied rewrites 52.5%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around 0

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

      1. sub-neg N/A

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

      2. *-commutative N/A

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

      3. associate-*l* N/A

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

      4. +-commutative N/A

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

      5. distribute-rgt1-in N/A

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

      6. *-commutative N/A

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

      7. metadata-eval N/A

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

      8. pow-sqr N/A

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

      9. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

      10. associate-+r+ N/A

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

      11. unpow2 N/A

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

      12. distribute-rgt-in N/A

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

      13. *-commutative N/A

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

      14. metadata-eval N/A

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

      15. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

   8. Applied rewrites 99.9%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(4 + a, a, 4\right), a \cdot a, -1\right)} \]
   9. Step-by-step derivation

   10. Applied rewrites 100.0%

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

   if 0.5 < (*.f64 b b)

   1. Initial program 60.1%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. *-commutative N/A

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

      2. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      3. unpow2 N/A

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

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      5. lower-pow.f64 92.6

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

   5. Applied rewrites 92.6%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. sub-neg N/A

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

      2. +-commutative N/A

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

      3. metadata-eval N/A

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

      4. +-commutative N/A

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

      5. metadata-eval N/A

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

      6. pow-sqr N/A

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

      7. distribute-rgt-in N/A

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

      8. *-commutative N/A

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

      9. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      10. +-commutative N/A

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

      11. unpow2 N/A

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

      12. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      13. unpow2 N/A

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

      14. lower-*.f64 92.5

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

   8. Applied rewrites 92.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, 4\right), b \cdot b, -1\right)} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
4. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 6: 93.9% accurate, 5.2× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \cdot b \leq 0.5:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\left(\left(4 + a\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, 4\right), b \cdot b, -1\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (* b b) 0.5)
   (fma (* (* (+ 4.0 a) a) a) a -1.0)
   (fma (fma b b 4.0) (* b b) -1.0)))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if ((b * b) <= 0.5) {
		tmp = fma((((4.0 + a) * a) * a), a, -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = fma(fma(b, b, 4.0), (b * b), -1.0);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(b * b) <= 0.5)
		tmp = fma(Float64(Float64(Float64(4.0 + a) * a) * a), a, -1.0);
	else
		tmp = fma(fma(b, b, 4.0), Float64(b * b), -1.0);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision], 0.5], N[(N[(N[(N[(4.0 + a), $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision] * a + -1.0), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(b * b + 4.0), $MachinePrecision] * N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] + -1.0), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (*.f64 b b) < 0.5

   1. Initial program 88.2%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. *-commutative N/A

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

      2. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      3. unpow2 N/A

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

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      5. lower-pow.f64 52.5

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

   5. Applied rewrites 52.5%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around 0

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

      1. sub-neg N/A

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

      2. *-commutative N/A

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

      3. associate-*l* N/A

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

      4. +-commutative N/A

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

      5. distribute-rgt1-in N/A

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

      6. *-commutative N/A

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

      7. metadata-eval N/A

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

      8. pow-sqr N/A

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

      9. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

      10. associate-+r+ N/A

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

      11. unpow2 N/A

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

      12. distribute-rgt-in N/A

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

      13. *-commutative N/A

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

      14. metadata-eval N/A

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

      15. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

   8. Applied rewrites 99.9%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(4 + a, a, 4\right), a \cdot a, -1\right)} \]
   9. Step-by-step derivation

   10. Applied rewrites 100.0%

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

   11. Taylor expanded in a around inf

       \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + 4 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right)\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right) \]
   12. Step-by-step derivation

   13. Applied rewrites 99.2%

       \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\left(\left(4 + a\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right) \]

   if 0.5 < (*.f64 b b)

   1. Initial program 60.1%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. *-commutative N/A

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

      2. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      3. unpow2 N/A

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

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      5. lower-pow.f64 92.6

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

   5. Applied rewrites 92.6%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. sub-neg N/A

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

      2. +-commutative N/A

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

      3. metadata-eval N/A

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

      4. +-commutative N/A

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

      5. metadata-eval N/A

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

      6. pow-sqr N/A

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

      7. distribute-rgt-in N/A

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

      8. *-commutative N/A

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

      9. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      10. +-commutative N/A

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

      11. unpow2 N/A

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

      12. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      13. unpow2 N/A

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

      14. lower-*.f64 92.5

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

   8. Applied rewrites 92.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, 4\right), b \cdot b, -1\right)} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
4. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 7: 93.9% accurate, 5.2× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \cdot b \leq 0.5:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\left(4 + a\right) \cdot a, a \cdot a, -1\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, 4\right), b \cdot b, -1\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (* b b) 0.5)
   (fma (* (+ 4.0 a) a) (* a a) -1.0)
   (fma (fma b b 4.0) (* b b) -1.0)))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if ((b * b) <= 0.5) {
		tmp = fma(((4.0 + a) * a), (a * a), -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = fma(fma(b, b, 4.0), (b * b), -1.0);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(b * b) <= 0.5)
		tmp = fma(Float64(Float64(4.0 + a) * a), Float64(a * a), -1.0);
	else
		tmp = fma(fma(b, b, 4.0), Float64(b * b), -1.0);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision], 0.5], N[(N[(N[(4.0 + a), $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision] * N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] + -1.0), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(b * b + 4.0), $MachinePrecision] * N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] + -1.0), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (*.f64 b b) < 0.5

   1. Initial program 88.2%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. *-commutative N/A

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

      2. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      3. unpow2 N/A

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

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      5. lower-pow.f64 52.5

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

   5. Applied rewrites 52.5%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around 0

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

      1. sub-neg N/A

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

      2. *-commutative N/A

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

      3. associate-*l* N/A

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

      4. +-commutative N/A

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

      5. distribute-rgt1-in N/A

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

      6. *-commutative N/A

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

      7. metadata-eval N/A

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

      8. pow-sqr N/A

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

      9. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

      10. associate-+r+ N/A

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

      11. unpow2 N/A

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

      12. distribute-rgt-in N/A

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

      13. *-commutative N/A

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

      14. metadata-eval N/A

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

      15. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

   8. Applied rewrites 99.9%

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

   9. Taylor expanded in a around inf

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + 4 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right), \color{blue}{a} \cdot a, -1\right) \]
   10. Step-by-step derivation

   11. Applied rewrites 99.2%

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

   if 0.5 < (*.f64 b b)

   1. Initial program 60.1%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. *-commutative N/A

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

      2. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      3. unpow2 N/A

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

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      5. lower-pow.f64 92.6

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

   5. Applied rewrites 92.6%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. sub-neg N/A

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

      2. +-commutative N/A

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

      3. metadata-eval N/A

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

      4. +-commutative N/A

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

      5. metadata-eval N/A

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

      6. pow-sqr N/A

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

      7. distribute-rgt-in N/A

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

      8. *-commutative N/A

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

      9. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      10. +-commutative N/A

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

      11. unpow2 N/A

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

      12. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      13. unpow2 N/A

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

      14. lower-*.f64 92.5

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

   8. Applied rewrites 92.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, 4\right), b \cdot b, -1\right)} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
4. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 8: 84.8% accurate, 5.5× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := \mathsf{fma}\left(4, a \cdot a, -1\right)\\ \mathbf{if}\;a \leq -3.4 \cdot 10^{+141}:\\ \;\;\;\;t\_0\\ \mathbf{elif}\;a \leq 7.8 \cdot 10^{+152}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, b \cdot b, -1\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;t\_0\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0 (fma 4.0 (* a a) -1.0)))
   (if (<= a -3.4e+141)
     t_0
     (if (<= a 7.8e+152) (fma (* b b) (* b b) -1.0) t_0))))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double t_0 = fma(4.0, (a * a), -1.0);
	double tmp;
	if (a <= -3.4e+141) {
		tmp = t_0;
	} else if (a <= 7.8e+152) {
		tmp = fma((b * b), (b * b), -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = t_0;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b)
	t_0 = fma(4.0, Float64(a * a), -1.0)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (a <= -3.4e+141)
		tmp = t_0;
	elseif (a <= 7.8e+152)
		tmp = fma(Float64(b * b), Float64(b * b), -1.0);
	else
		tmp = t_0;
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := Block[{t$95$0 = N[(4.0 * N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] + -1.0), $MachinePrecision]}, If[LessEqual[a, -3.4e+141], t$95$0, If[LessEqual[a, 7.8e+152], N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] * N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] + -1.0), $MachinePrecision], t$95$0]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if a < -3.3999999999999998e141 or 7.80000000000000022e152 < a

   1. Initial program 32.9%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. *-commutative N/A

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

      2. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      3. unpow2 N/A

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

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      5. lower-pow.f64 43.8

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

   5. Applied rewrites 43.8%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around 0

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

      1. sub-neg N/A

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

      2. *-commutative N/A

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

      3. associate-*l* N/A

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

      4. +-commutative N/A

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

      5. distribute-rgt1-in N/A

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

      6. *-commutative N/A

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

      7. metadata-eval N/A

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

      8. pow-sqr N/A

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

      9. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

      10. associate-+r+ N/A

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

      11. unpow2 N/A

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

      12. distribute-rgt-in N/A

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

      13. *-commutative N/A

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

      14. metadata-eval N/A

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

      15. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

   8. Applied rewrites 100.0%

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

   9. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(4, \color{blue}{a} \cdot a, -1\right) \]
   10. Step-by-step derivation

   11. Applied rewrites 96.1%

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

   if -3.3999999999999998e141 < a < 7.80000000000000022e152

   1. Initial program 89.7%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. *-commutative N/A

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

      2. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      3. unpow2 N/A

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

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      5. lower-pow.f64 83.3

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

   5. Applied rewrites 83.3%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. sub-neg N/A

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

      2. +-commutative N/A

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

      3. metadata-eval N/A

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

      4. +-commutative N/A

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

      5. metadata-eval N/A

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

      6. pow-sqr N/A

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

      7. distribute-rgt-in N/A

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

      8. *-commutative N/A

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

      9. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      10. +-commutative N/A

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

      11. unpow2 N/A

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

      12. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      13. unpow2 N/A

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

      14. lower-*.f64 83.3

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

   8. Applied rewrites 83.3%

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

   9. Taylor expanded in b around inf

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left({b}^{2}, \color{blue}{b} \cdot b, -1\right) \]
   10. Step-by-step derivation

   11. Applied rewrites 82.5%

       \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, \color{blue}{b} \cdot b, -1\right) \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
4. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 9: 93.7% accurate, 5.5× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \cdot b \leq 0.5:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, 4\right), b \cdot b, -1\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (* b b) 0.5)
   (fma (* (* a a) a) a -1.0)
   (fma (fma b b 4.0) (* b b) -1.0)))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if ((b * b) <= 0.5) {
		tmp = fma(((a * a) * a), a, -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = fma(fma(b, b, 4.0), (b * b), -1.0);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(b * b) <= 0.5)
		tmp = fma(Float64(Float64(a * a) * a), a, -1.0);
	else
		tmp = fma(fma(b, b, 4.0), Float64(b * b), -1.0);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision], 0.5], N[(N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision] * a + -1.0), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(b * b + 4.0), $MachinePrecision] * N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] + -1.0), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (*.f64 b b) < 0.5

   1. Initial program 88.2%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. *-commutative N/A

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

      2. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      3. unpow2 N/A

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

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      5. lower-pow.f64 52.5

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

   5. Applied rewrites 52.5%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around 0

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

      1. sub-neg N/A

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

      2. *-commutative N/A

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

      3. associate-*l* N/A

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

      4. +-commutative N/A

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

      5. distribute-rgt1-in N/A

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

      6. *-commutative N/A

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

      7. metadata-eval N/A

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

      8. pow-sqr N/A

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

      9. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

      10. associate-+r+ N/A

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

      11. unpow2 N/A

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

      12. distribute-rgt-in N/A

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

      13. *-commutative N/A

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

      14. metadata-eval N/A

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

      15. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

   8. Applied rewrites 99.9%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(4 + a, a, 4\right), a \cdot a, -1\right)} \]
   9. Step-by-step derivation

   10. Applied rewrites 100.0%

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

   11. Taylor expanded in a around inf

       \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left({a}^{2} \cdot a, a, -1\right) \]
   12. Step-by-step derivation

   13. Applied rewrites 98.9%

       \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right) \]

   if 0.5 < (*.f64 b b)

   1. Initial program 60.1%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. *-commutative N/A

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

      2. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      3. unpow2 N/A

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

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      5. lower-pow.f64 92.6

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

   5. Applied rewrites 92.6%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. sub-neg N/A

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

      2. +-commutative N/A

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

      3. metadata-eval N/A

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

      4. +-commutative N/A

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

      5. metadata-eval N/A

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

      6. pow-sqr N/A

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

      7. distribute-rgt-in N/A

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

      8. *-commutative N/A

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

      9. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      10. +-commutative N/A

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

      11. unpow2 N/A

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

      12. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      13. unpow2 N/A

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

      14. lower-*.f64 92.5

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

   8. Applied rewrites 92.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, 4\right), b \cdot b, -1\right)} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
4. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 10: 93.7% accurate, 5.7× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \cdot b \leq 4 \cdot 10^{+27}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, b \cdot b, -1\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (* b b) 4e+27) (fma (* (* a a) a) a -1.0) (fma (* b b) (* b b) -1.0)))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if ((b * b) <= 4e+27) {
		tmp = fma(((a * a) * a), a, -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = fma((b * b), (b * b), -1.0);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(b * b) <= 4e+27)
		tmp = fma(Float64(Float64(a * a) * a), a, -1.0);
	else
		tmp = fma(Float64(b * b), Float64(b * b), -1.0);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision], 4e+27], N[(N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision] * a + -1.0), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] * N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] + -1.0), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (*.f64 b b) < 4.0000000000000001e27

   1. Initial program 87.4%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. *-commutative N/A

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

      2. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      3. unpow2 N/A

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

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      5. lower-pow.f64 52.4

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

   5. Applied rewrites 52.4%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around 0

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

      1. sub-neg N/A

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

      2. *-commutative N/A

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

      3. associate-*l* N/A

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

      4. +-commutative N/A

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

      5. distribute-rgt1-in N/A

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

      6. *-commutative N/A

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

      7. metadata-eval N/A

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

      8. pow-sqr N/A

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

      9. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

      10. associate-+r+ N/A

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

      11. unpow2 N/A

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

      12. distribute-rgt-in N/A

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

      13. *-commutative N/A

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

      14. metadata-eval N/A

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

      15. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

   8. Applied rewrites 97.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(4 + a, a, 4\right), a \cdot a, -1\right)} \]
   9. Step-by-step derivation

   10. Applied rewrites 97.1%

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

   11. Taylor expanded in a around inf

       \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left({a}^{2} \cdot a, a, -1\right) \]
   12. Step-by-step derivation

   13. Applied rewrites 96.1%

       \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot a, a, -1\right) \]

   if 4.0000000000000001e27 < (*.f64 b b)

   1. Initial program 59.1%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. *-commutative N/A

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

      2. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      3. unpow2 N/A

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

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      5. lower-pow.f64 95.3

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

   5. Applied rewrites 95.3%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. sub-neg N/A

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

      2. +-commutative N/A

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

      3. metadata-eval N/A

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

      4. +-commutative N/A

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

      5. metadata-eval N/A

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

      6. pow-sqr N/A

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

      7. distribute-rgt-in N/A

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

      8. *-commutative N/A

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

      9. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      10. +-commutative N/A

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

      11. unpow2 N/A

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

      12. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      13. unpow2 N/A

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

      14. lower-*.f64 95.2

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

   8. Applied rewrites 95.2%

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

   9. Taylor expanded in b around inf

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left({b}^{2}, \color{blue}{b} \cdot b, -1\right) \]
   10. Step-by-step derivation

   11. Applied rewrites 95.2%

       \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, \color{blue}{b} \cdot b, -1\right) \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
4. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 11: 93.7% accurate, 5.7× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \cdot b \leq 4 \cdot 10^{+27}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, a \cdot a, -1\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, b \cdot b, -1\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (* b b) 4e+27) (fma (* a a) (* a a) -1.0) (fma (* b b) (* b b) -1.0)))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if ((b * b) <= 4e+27) {
		tmp = fma((a * a), (a * a), -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = fma((b * b), (b * b), -1.0);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(b * b) <= 4e+27)
		tmp = fma(Float64(a * a), Float64(a * a), -1.0);
	else
		tmp = fma(Float64(b * b), Float64(b * b), -1.0);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision], 4e+27], N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] + -1.0), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] * N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] + -1.0), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (*.f64 b b) < 4.0000000000000001e27

   1. Initial program 87.4%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. *-commutative N/A

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

      2. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      3. unpow2 N/A

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

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      5. lower-pow.f64 52.4

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

   5. Applied rewrites 52.4%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around 0

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

      1. sub-neg N/A

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

      2. *-commutative N/A

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

      3. associate-*l* N/A

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

      4. +-commutative N/A

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

      5. distribute-rgt1-in N/A

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

      6. *-commutative N/A

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

      7. metadata-eval N/A

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

      8. pow-sqr N/A

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

      9. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

      10. associate-+r+ N/A

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

      11. unpow2 N/A

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

      12. distribute-rgt-in N/A

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

      13. *-commutative N/A

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

      14. metadata-eval N/A

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

      15. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

   8. Applied rewrites 97.0%

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

   9. Taylor expanded in a around inf

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left({a}^{2}, \color{blue}{a} \cdot a, -1\right) \]
   10. Step-by-step derivation

   11. Applied rewrites 96.1%

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

   if 4.0000000000000001e27 < (*.f64 b b)

   1. Initial program 59.1%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. *-commutative N/A

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

      2. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      3. unpow2 N/A

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

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      5. lower-pow.f64 95.3

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

   5. Applied rewrites 95.3%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. sub-neg N/A

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

      2. +-commutative N/A

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

      3. metadata-eval N/A

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

      4. +-commutative N/A

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

      5. metadata-eval N/A

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

      6. pow-sqr N/A

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

      7. distribute-rgt-in N/A

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

      8. *-commutative N/A

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

      9. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      10. +-commutative N/A

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

      11. unpow2 N/A

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

      12. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      13. unpow2 N/A

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

      14. lower-*.f64 95.2

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

   8. Applied rewrites 95.2%

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

   9. Taylor expanded in b around inf

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left({b}^{2}, \color{blue}{b} \cdot b, -1\right) \]
   10. Step-by-step derivation

   11. Applied rewrites 95.2%

       \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, \color{blue}{b} \cdot b, -1\right) \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
4. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 12: 61.1% accurate, 8.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 1.35 \cdot 10^{+145}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(4, a \cdot a, -1\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(4, b \cdot b, -1\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b 1.35e+145) (fma 4.0 (* a a) -1.0) (fma 4.0 (* b b) -1.0)))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 1.35e+145) {
		tmp = fma(4.0, (a * a), -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = fma(4.0, (b * b), -1.0);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= 1.35e+145)
		tmp = fma(4.0, Float64(a * a), -1.0);
	else
		tmp = fma(4.0, Float64(b * b), -1.0);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[b, 1.35e+145], N[(4.0 * N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] + -1.0), $MachinePrecision], N[(4.0 * N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] + -1.0), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < 1.35000000000000011e145

   1. Initial program 77.6%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. *-commutative N/A

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

      2. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      3. unpow2 N/A

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

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      5. lower-pow.f64 68.6

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

   5. Applied rewrites 68.6%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around 0

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

      1. sub-neg N/A

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

      2. *-commutative N/A

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

      3. associate-*l* N/A

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

      4. +-commutative N/A

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

      5. distribute-rgt1-in N/A

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

      6. *-commutative N/A

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

      7. metadata-eval N/A

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

      8. pow-sqr N/A

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

      9. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

      10. associate-+r+ N/A

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

      11. unpow2 N/A

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

      12. distribute-rgt-in N/A

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

      13. *-commutative N/A

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

      14. metadata-eval N/A

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

      15. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

   8. Applied rewrites 73.1%

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

   9. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(4, \color{blue}{a} \cdot a, -1\right) \]
   10. Step-by-step derivation

   11. Applied rewrites 56.1%

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

   if 1.35000000000000011e145 < b

   1. Initial program 50.0%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. *-commutative N/A

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

      2. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      3. unpow2 N/A

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

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      5. lower-pow.f64 100.0

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

   5. Applied rewrites 100.0%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. sub-neg N/A

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

      2. +-commutative N/A

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

      3. metadata-eval N/A

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

      4. +-commutative N/A

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

      5. metadata-eval N/A

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

      6. pow-sqr N/A

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

      7. distribute-rgt-in N/A

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

      8. *-commutative N/A

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

      9. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      10. +-commutative N/A

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

      11. unpow2 N/A

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

      12. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      13. unpow2 N/A

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

      14. lower-*.f64 100.0

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

   8. Applied rewrites 100.0%

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

   9. Taylor expanded in b around 0

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(4, \color{blue}{b} \cdot b, -1\right) \]
   10. Step-by-step derivation

   11. Applied rewrites 100.0%

       \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(4, \color{blue}{b} \cdot b, -1\right) \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
4. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 13: 51.2% accurate, 13.3× speedup

Math

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

FPCore

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

C

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

Julia

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

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := N[(4.0 * N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] + -1.0), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 74.1%

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

3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

   1. *-commutative N/A

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

   2. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

   3. unpow2 N/A

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

   4. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

   5. lower-pow.f64 72.5

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

5. Applied rewrites 72.5%

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

6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

   1. sub-neg N/A

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

   2. +-commutative N/A

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

   3. metadata-eval N/A

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

   4. +-commutative N/A

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

   5. metadata-eval N/A

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

   6. pow-sqr N/A

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

   7. distribute-rgt-in N/A

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

   8. *-commutative N/A

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

   9. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

   10. +-commutative N/A

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

   11. unpow2 N/A

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

   12. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

   13. unpow2 N/A

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

   14. lower-*.f64 72.5

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

8. Applied rewrites 72.5%

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

9. Taylor expanded in b around 0

   \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(4, \color{blue}{b} \cdot b, -1\right) \]
10. Step-by-step derivation

11. Applied rewrites 54.3%

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

Alternative 14: 24.8% accurate, 160.0× 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 74.1%

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

3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

   1. *-commutative N/A

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

   2. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

   3. unpow2 N/A

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

   4. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

   5. lower-pow.f64 72.5

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

5. Applied rewrites 72.5%

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

6. Taylor expanded in b around 0

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

   1. sub-neg N/A

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

   2. *-commutative N/A

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

   3. associate-*l* N/A

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

   4. +-commutative N/A

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

   5. distribute-rgt1-in N/A

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

   6. *-commutative N/A

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

   7. metadata-eval N/A

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

   8. pow-sqr N/A

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

   9. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

   10. associate-+r+ N/A

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

   11. unpow2 N/A

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

   12. distribute-rgt-in N/A

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

   13. *-commutative N/A

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

   14. metadata-eval N/A

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

   15. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

8. Applied rewrites 69.6%

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

9. Taylor expanded in a around 0

   \[\leadsto -1 \]
10. Step-by-step derivation

11. Applied rewrites 26.6%

    \[\leadsto -1 \]
12. Add Preprocessing

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2024276 
(FPCore (a b)
  :name "Bouland and Aaronson, Equation (25)"
  :precision binary64
  (- (+ (pow (+ (* a a) (* b b)) 2.0) (* 4.0 (+ (* (* a a) (+ 1.0 a)) (* (* b b) (- 1.0 (* 3.0 a)))))) 1.0))