NMSE Section 6.1 mentioned, B

Percentage Accurate: 78.6% → 99.7%
Time: 8.0s
Alternatives: 8
Speedup: 2.4×

Specification

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

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

Sampling outcomes in binary64 precision:

Local Percentage Accuracy vs ?

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

Accuracy vs Speed?

Herbie found 8 alternatives:

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

Initial Program: 78.6% accurate, 1.0× speedup?

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

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

Alternative 1: 99.7% accurate, 1.7× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \\ \frac{\frac{\frac{0.5 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b}}{a}}{a + b} \end{array} \]
NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (/ (/ (/ (* 0.5 (PI)) b) a) (+ a b)))
\begin{array}{l}
[a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\
\\
\frac{\frac{\frac{0.5 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b}}{a}}{a + b}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 76.1%

    \[\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
  2. Add Preprocessing
  3. Applied rewrites87.2%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\frac{\color{blue}{0.5 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}}{b}}{a}}{a + b} \]
  6. Applied rewrites99.7%

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

Alternative 2: 99.7% accurate, 2.0× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \\ \frac{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot 0.5}{a \cdot b}}{a + b} \end{array} \]
NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (/ (/ (* (PI) 0.5) (* a b)) (+ a b)))
\begin{array}{l}
[a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\
\\
\frac{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot 0.5}{a \cdot b}}{a + b}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 76.1%

    \[\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
  2. Add Preprocessing
  3. Applied rewrites87.2%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\frac{\color{blue}{0.5 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}}{b}}{a}}{a + b} \]
  6. Applied rewrites99.7%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot 0.5}{\color{blue}{a \cdot b}}}{a + b} \]
  8. Applied rewrites99.7%

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

Alternative 3: 99.6% accurate, 2.0× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \\ \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b \cdot a} \cdot \frac{0.5}{b + a} \end{array} \]
NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (* (/ (PI) (* b a)) (/ 0.5 (+ b a))))
\begin{array}{l}
[a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\
\\
\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b \cdot a} \cdot \frac{0.5}{b + a}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 76.1%

    \[\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
  2. Add Preprocessing
  3. Applied rewrites87.2%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{a + b}, \frac{0.5}{b - a} \cdot {a}^{-1}, \frac{\frac{0.5}{a + b} \cdot \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b - a}}{-b}\right)} \]
  4. Applied rewrites98.8%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b \cdot a} \cdot \frac{0.5}{\color{blue}{b + a}} \]
  6. Applied rewrites99.7%

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

Alternative 4: 83.0% accurate, 2.2× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 6 \cdot 10^{-118}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot b\right) \cdot a} \cdot 0.5\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot a} \cdot 0.5\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]
NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b 6e-118)
   (* (/ (PI) (* (* a b) a)) 0.5)
   (* (/ (PI) (* (* b b) a)) 0.5)))
\begin{array}{l}
[a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\
\\
\begin{array}{l}
\mathbf{if}\;b \leq 6 \cdot 10^{-118}:\\
\;\;\;\;\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot b\right) \cdot a} \cdot 0.5\\

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


\end{array}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Split input into 2 regimes
  2. if b < 6.00000000000000035e-118

    1. Initial program 76.1%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

        \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot b} \cdot \frac{1}{2} \]
      7. lower-*.f6461.7

        \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot b} \cdot 0.5 \]
    5. Applied rewrites61.7%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot b} \cdot 0.5} \]
    6. Step-by-step derivation
      1. Applied rewrites72.5%

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

      if 6.00000000000000035e-118 < b

      1. Initial program 76.0%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

          \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\color{blue}{\left(b \cdot b\right)} \cdot a} \cdot \frac{1}{2} \]
        8. lower-*.f6472.6

          \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\color{blue}{\left(b \cdot b\right)} \cdot a} \cdot 0.5 \]
      5. Applied rewrites72.6%

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

    Alternative 5: 99.1% accurate, 2.4× speedup?

    \[\begin{array}{l} [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \\ \mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{\left(a + b\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot b\right)} \end{array} \]
    NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
    (FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (* (PI) (/ 0.5 (* (+ a b) (* a b)))))
    \begin{array}{l}
    [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\
    \\
    \mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{\left(a + b\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot b\right)}
    \end{array}
    
    Derivation
    1. Initial program 76.1%

      \[\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
    2. Add Preprocessing
    3. Applied rewrites87.2%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

        \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\frac{\color{blue}{0.5 \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}}{b}}{a}}{a + b} \]
    6. Applied rewrites99.7%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

        \[\leadsto \mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\color{blue}{\left(b + a\right) \cdot \left(b \cdot a\right)}} \]
      18. lower-*.f6498.8

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

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

        \[\leadsto \mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\color{blue}{\left(a + b\right)} \cdot \left(b \cdot a\right)} \]
      21. lift-+.f6498.8

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

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

        \[\leadsto \mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\left(a + b\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot b\right)}} \]
      24. lower-*.f6498.8

        \[\leadsto \mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{\left(a + b\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot b\right)}} \]
    8. Applied rewrites98.8%

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

    Alternative 6: 62.6% accurate, 2.6× speedup?

    \[\begin{array}{l} [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \\ \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot b\right) \cdot a} \cdot 0.5 \end{array} \]
    NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
    (FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (* (/ (PI) (* (* a b) a)) 0.5))
    \begin{array}{l}
    [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\
    \\
    \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot b\right) \cdot a} \cdot 0.5
    \end{array}
    
    Derivation
    1. Initial program 76.1%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

        \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot b} \cdot \frac{1}{2} \]
      7. lower-*.f6455.0

        \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot b} \cdot 0.5 \]
    5. Applied rewrites55.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot b} \cdot 0.5} \]
    6. Step-by-step derivation
      1. Applied rewrites61.9%

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

      Alternative 7: 56.6% accurate, 2.6× speedup?

      \[\begin{array}{l} [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \\ \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot b} \cdot 0.5 \end{array} \]
      NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
      (FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (* (/ (PI) (* (* a a) b)) 0.5))
      \begin{array}{l}
      [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\
      \\
      \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot b} \cdot 0.5
      \end{array}
      
      Derivation
      1. Initial program 76.1%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

          \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot b} \cdot \frac{1}{2} \]
        7. lower-*.f6455.0

          \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot b} \cdot 0.5 \]
      5. Applied rewrites55.0%

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

      Alternative 8: 56.6% accurate, 2.6× speedup?

      \[\begin{array}{l} [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\ \\ \mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot b} \end{array} \]
      NOTE: a and b should be sorted in increasing order before calling this function.
      (FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (* (PI) (/ 0.5 (* (* a a) b))))
      \begin{array}{l}
      [a, b] = \mathsf{sort}([a, b])\\
      \\
      \mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot b}
      \end{array}
      
      Derivation
      1. Initial program 76.1%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

          \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot b} \cdot \frac{1}{2} \]
        7. lower-*.f6455.0

          \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot b} \cdot 0.5 \]
      5. Applied rewrites55.0%

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot b} \cdot 0.5} \]
      6. Step-by-step derivation
        1. Applied rewrites54.9%

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

        Reproduce

        ?
        herbie shell --seed 2024298 
        (FPCore (a b)
          :name "NMSE Section 6.1 mentioned, B"
          :precision binary64
          (* (* (/ (PI) 2.0) (/ 1.0 (- (* b b) (* a a)))) (- (/ 1.0 a) (/ 1.0 b))))