Bouland and Aaronson, Equation (25)

Percentage Accurate: 73.9% → 99.8%

Time: 21.2s

Alternatives: 9

Speedup: 5.3×

• 60.8% 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: 73.9% 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: 99.8% accurate, 2.7× speedup

Math

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

FPCore

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

C

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

Julia

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

Wolfram

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

Derivation

1. Initial program 71.4%

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

3. Taylor expanded in a around inf

   \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left({a}^{3} \cdot \left(1 + \frac{1}{a}\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]
4. Step-by-step derivation

   1. unpow3 N/A

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

   2. unpow2 N/A

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

   3. associate-*l* N/A

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

   4. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

   5. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

   6. rgt-mult-inverse N/A

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

   7. +-commutative N/A

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

   8. unpow2 N/A

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

   9. associate-*r* N/A

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

   10. *-commutative N/A

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

   11. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

   12. +-commutative N/A

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

   13. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

   14. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

   15. lower-fma.f64 81.4

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

5. Applied rewrites 81.4%

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

6. Taylor expanded in b around 0

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) + \left({b}^{2} \cdot \left(2 \cdot {a}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right) + {b}^{2}\right)\right) + {a}^{4}\right)\right) - 1} \]

8. Applied rewrites 99.9%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 2, \mathsf{fma}\left(4, \mathsf{fma}\left(-3, a, 1\right), b \cdot b\right)\right) \cdot b, b, \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(4 + a, a, 4\right), a \cdot a, -1\right)\right)} \]
9. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 2: 99.9% accurate, 3.2× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(4 + a, a, 4\right) \cdot a, a, \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(2, a, -12\right), a, \mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, 4\right)\right) \cdot b, b, -1\right)\right) \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (fma
  (* (fma (+ 4.0 a) a 4.0) a)
  a
  (fma (* (fma (fma 2.0 a -12.0) a (fma b b 4.0)) b) b -1.0)))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	return fma((fma((4.0 + a), a, 4.0) * a), a, fma((fma(fma(2.0, a, -12.0), a, fma(b, b, 4.0)) * b), b, -1.0));
}

Julia

function code(a, b)
	return fma(Float64(fma(Float64(4.0 + a), a, 4.0) * a), a, fma(Float64(fma(fma(2.0, a, -12.0), a, fma(b, b, 4.0)) * b), b, -1.0))
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := N[(N[(N[(N[(4.0 + a), $MachinePrecision] * a + 4.0), $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision] * a + N[(N[(N[(N[(2.0 * a + -12.0), $MachinePrecision] * a + N[(b * b + 4.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * b), $MachinePrecision] * b + -1.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 71.4%

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

3. Taylor expanded in a around inf

   \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left({a}^{3} \cdot \left(1 + \frac{1}{a}\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]
4. Step-by-step derivation

   1. unpow3 N/A

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

   2. unpow2 N/A

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

   3. associate-*l* N/A

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

   4. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

   5. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

   6. rgt-mult-inverse N/A

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

   7. +-commutative N/A

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

   8. unpow2 N/A

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

   9. associate-*r* N/A

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

   10. *-commutative N/A

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

   11. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

   12. +-commutative N/A

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

   13. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

   14. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

   15. lower-fma.f64 81.4

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

5. Applied rewrites 81.4%

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

6. Taylor expanded in b around 0

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) + \left({b}^{2} \cdot \left(2 \cdot {a}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right) + {b}^{2}\right)\right) + {a}^{4}\right)\right) - 1} \]

8. Applied rewrites 99.9%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 2, \mathsf{fma}\left(4, \mathsf{fma}\left(-3, a, 1\right), b \cdot b\right)\right) \cdot b, b, \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(4 + a, a, 4\right), a \cdot a, -1\right)\right)} \]

9. Taylor expanded in b around 0

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) + \left({b}^{2} \cdot \left(2 \cdot {a}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right) + {b}^{2}\right)\right) + {a}^{4}\right)\right) - 1} \]

11. Applied rewrites 99.9%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(4 + a, a, 4\right) \cdot a, a, \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(2, a, -12\right), a, \mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, 4\right)\right) \cdot b, b, -1\right)\right)} \]
12. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 3: 93.7% accurate, 4.2× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := \left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right) - 1\\ \mathbf{if}\;a \leq -1.85 \cdot 10^{+71}:\\ \;\;\;\;t\_0\\ \mathbf{elif}\;a \leq 4 \cdot 10^{+27}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \mathsf{fma}\left(-12, a, 4\right)\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot b - 1\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;t\_0\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0 (- (* (* a a) (* a a)) 1.0)))
   (if (<= a -1.85e+71)
     t_0
     (if (<= a 4e+27) (- (* (* (fma b b (fma -12.0 a 4.0)) b) b) 1.0) t_0))))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double t_0 = ((a * a) * (a * a)) - 1.0;
	double tmp;
	if (a <= -1.85e+71) {
		tmp = t_0;
	} else if (a <= 4e+27) {
		tmp = ((fma(b, b, fma(-12.0, a, 4.0)) * b) * b) - 1.0;
	} else {
		tmp = t_0;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b)
	t_0 = Float64(Float64(Float64(a * a) * Float64(a * a)) - 1.0)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (a <= -1.85e+71)
		tmp = t_0;
	elseif (a <= 4e+27)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(Float64(fma(b, b, fma(-12.0, a, 4.0)) * b) * b) - 1.0);
	else
		tmp = t_0;
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := Block[{t$95$0 = N[(N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - 1.0), $MachinePrecision]}, If[LessEqual[a, -1.85e+71], t$95$0, If[LessEqual[a, 4e+27], N[(N[(N[(N[(b * b + N[(-12.0 * a + 4.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * b), $MachinePrecision] * b), $MachinePrecision] - 1.0), $MachinePrecision], t$95$0]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if a < -1.85e71 or 4.0000000000000001e27 < a

   1. Initial program 38.7%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around inf

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

      1. lower-pow.f64 98.3

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

   5. Applied rewrites 98.3%

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

   7. Applied rewrites 98.3%

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

   if -1.85e71 < a < 4.0000000000000001e27

   1. Initial program 96.4%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(-12 \cdot \left(a \cdot {b}^{2}\right) + \left(4 \cdot {b}^{2} + {b}^{4}\right)\right)} - 1 \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate-+r+ N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\left(-12 \cdot \left(a \cdot {b}^{2}\right) + 4 \cdot {b}^{2}\right) + {b}^{4}\right)} - 1 \]

      2. +-commutative N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left({b}^{4} + \left(-12 \cdot \left(a \cdot {b}^{2}\right) + 4 \cdot {b}^{2}\right)\right)} - 1 \]

      3. metadata-eval N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{\color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot 2\right)}} + \left(-12 \cdot \left(a \cdot {b}^{2}\right) + 4 \cdot {b}^{2}\right)\right) - 1 \]

      4. pow-sqr N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{{b}^{2} \cdot {b}^{2}} + \left(-12 \cdot \left(a \cdot {b}^{2}\right) + 4 \cdot {b}^{2}\right)\right) - 1 \]

      5. associate-*r* N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{2} \cdot {b}^{2} + \left(\color{blue}{\left(-12 \cdot a\right) \cdot {b}^{2}} + 4 \cdot {b}^{2}\right)\right) - 1 \]

      6. distribute-rgt-out N/A

         \[\leadsto \left({b}^{2} \cdot {b}^{2} + \color{blue}{{b}^{2} \cdot \left(-12 \cdot a + 4\right)}\right) - 1 \]

      7. distribute-lft-out N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{b}^{2} \cdot \left({b}^{2} + \left(-12 \cdot a + 4\right)\right)} - 1 \]

      8. lower-*.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{b}^{2} \cdot \left({b}^{2} + \left(-12 \cdot a + 4\right)\right)} - 1 \]

      9. unpow2 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(b \cdot b\right)} \cdot \left({b}^{2} + \left(-12 \cdot a + 4\right)\right) - 1 \]

      10. lower-*.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(b \cdot b\right)} \cdot \left({b}^{2} + \left(-12 \cdot a + 4\right)\right) - 1 \]

      11. unpow2 N/A

          \[\leadsto \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(\color{blue}{b \cdot b} + \left(-12 \cdot a + 4\right)\right) - 1 \]

      12. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      13. lower-fma.f64 96.7

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

   5. Applied rewrites 96.7%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \mathsf{fma}\left(-12, a, 4\right)\right)} - 1 \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

   7. Applied rewrites 96.7%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \mathsf{fma}\left(-12, a, 4\right)\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot b - 1} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
4. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 4: 99.8% accurate, 4.2× speedup

Math

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

FPCore

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

C

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

Julia

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

Wolfram

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

Derivation

1. Initial program 71.4%

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

3. Taylor expanded in a around inf

   \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left({a}^{3} \cdot \left(1 + \frac{1}{a}\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]
4. Step-by-step derivation

   1. unpow3 N/A

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

   2. unpow2 N/A

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

   3. associate-*l* N/A

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

   4. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

   5. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

   6. rgt-mult-inverse N/A

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

   7. +-commutative N/A

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

   8. unpow2 N/A

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

   9. associate-*r* N/A

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

   10. *-commutative N/A

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

   11. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

   12. +-commutative N/A

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

   13. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

   14. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

   15. lower-fma.f64 81.4

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

5. Applied rewrites 81.4%

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

6. Taylor expanded in b around 0

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) + \left({b}^{2} \cdot \left(2 \cdot {a}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right) + {b}^{2}\right)\right) + {a}^{4}\right)\right) - 1} \]

8. Applied rewrites 99.9%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 2, \mathsf{fma}\left(4, \mathsf{fma}\left(-3, a, 1\right), b \cdot b\right)\right) \cdot b, b, \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(4 + a, a, 4\right), a \cdot a, -1\right)\right)} \]

9. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

11. Applied rewrites 99.6%

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

Alternative 5: 99.8% accurate, 4.2× speedup

Math

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

FPCore

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

C

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

Julia

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

Wolfram

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

Derivation

1. Initial program 71.4%

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

3. Taylor expanded in a around inf

   \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left({a}^{3} \cdot \left(1 + \frac{1}{a}\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]
4. Step-by-step derivation

   1. unpow3 N/A

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

   2. unpow2 N/A

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

   3. associate-*l* N/A

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

   4. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

   5. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

   6. rgt-mult-inverse N/A

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

   7. +-commutative N/A

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

   8. unpow2 N/A

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

   9. associate-*r* N/A

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

   10. *-commutative N/A

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

   11. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

   12. +-commutative N/A

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

   13. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

   14. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

   15. lower-fma.f64 81.4

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

5. Applied rewrites 81.4%

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

6. Taylor expanded in b around 0

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot \left(1 + a\right)\right) + \left({b}^{2} \cdot \left(2 \cdot {a}^{2} + \left(4 \cdot \left(1 - 3 \cdot a\right) + {b}^{2}\right)\right) + {a}^{4}\right)\right) - 1} \]

8. Applied rewrites 99.9%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 2, \mathsf{fma}\left(4, \mathsf{fma}\left(-3, a, 1\right), b \cdot b\right)\right) \cdot b, b, \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(4 + a, a, 4\right), a \cdot a, -1\right)\right)} \]

9. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

11. Applied rewrites 99.6%

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

13. Applied rewrites 99.6%

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

Alternative 6: 93.7% accurate, 5.2× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := \left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right) - 1\\ \mathbf{if}\;a \leq -1.85 \cdot 10^{+71}:\\ \;\;\;\;t\_0\\ \mathbf{elif}\;a \leq 4 \cdot 10^{+27}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, 4\right) \cdot b, b, -1\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;t\_0\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0 (- (* (* a a) (* a a)) 1.0)))
   (if (<= a -1.85e+71)
     t_0
     (if (<= a 4e+27) (fma (* (fma b b 4.0) b) b -1.0) t_0))))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double t_0 = ((a * a) * (a * a)) - 1.0;
	double tmp;
	if (a <= -1.85e+71) {
		tmp = t_0;
	} else if (a <= 4e+27) {
		tmp = fma((fma(b, b, 4.0) * b), b, -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = t_0;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b)
	t_0 = Float64(Float64(Float64(a * a) * Float64(a * a)) - 1.0)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (a <= -1.85e+71)
		tmp = t_0;
	elseif (a <= 4e+27)
		tmp = fma(Float64(fma(b, b, 4.0) * b), b, -1.0);
	else
		tmp = t_0;
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := Block[{t$95$0 = N[(N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - 1.0), $MachinePrecision]}, If[LessEqual[a, -1.85e+71], t$95$0, If[LessEqual[a, 4e+27], N[(N[(N[(b * b + 4.0), $MachinePrecision] * b), $MachinePrecision] * b + -1.0), $MachinePrecision], t$95$0]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if a < -1.85e71 or 4.0000000000000001e27 < a

   1. Initial program 38.7%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around inf

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

      1. lower-pow.f64 98.3

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

   5. Applied rewrites 98.3%

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

   7. Applied rewrites 98.3%

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

   if -1.85e71 < a < 4.0000000000000001e27

   1. Initial program 96.4%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around inf

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left({a}^{3} \cdot \left(1 + \frac{1}{a}\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. unpow3 N/A

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

      2. unpow2 N/A

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

      3. associate-*l* N/A

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

      4. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

      5. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

      6. rgt-mult-inverse N/A

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

      7. +-commutative N/A

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

      8. unpow2 N/A

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

      9. associate-*r* N/A

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

      10. *-commutative N/A

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

      11. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      12. +-commutative N/A

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

      13. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

      14. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

      15. lower-fma.f64 98.9

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

   5. Applied rewrites 98.9%

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

   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. metadata-eval N/A

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

      3. metadata-eval N/A

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

      4. pow-sqr N/A

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

      5. distribute-rgt-in N/A

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

      6. *-commutative N/A

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

      7. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      8. +-commutative N/A

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

      9. unpow2 N/A

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

      10. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      11. unpow2 N/A

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

      12. lower-*.f64 96.7

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

   8. Applied rewrites 96.7%

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

   10. Applied rewrites 96.7%

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

Alternative 7: 85.5% accurate, 5.3× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := \left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot 4 - 1\\ \mathbf{if}\;a \leq -8.2 \cdot 10^{+155}:\\ \;\;\;\;t\_0\\ \mathbf{elif}\;a \leq 6.8 \cdot 10^{+153}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, 4\right) \cdot b, b, -1\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;t\_0\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0 (- (* (* a a) 4.0) 1.0)))
   (if (<= a -8.2e+155)
     t_0
     (if (<= a 6.8e+153) (fma (* (fma b b 4.0) b) b -1.0) t_0))))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double t_0 = ((a * a) * 4.0) - 1.0;
	double tmp;
	if (a <= -8.2e+155) {
		tmp = t_0;
	} else if (a <= 6.8e+153) {
		tmp = fma((fma(b, b, 4.0) * b), b, -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = t_0;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b)
	t_0 = Float64(Float64(Float64(a * a) * 4.0) - 1.0)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (a <= -8.2e+155)
		tmp = t_0;
	elseif (a <= 6.8e+153)
		tmp = fma(Float64(fma(b, b, 4.0) * b), b, -1.0);
	else
		tmp = t_0;
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := Block[{t$95$0 = N[(N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * 4.0), $MachinePrecision] - 1.0), $MachinePrecision]}, If[LessEqual[a, -8.2e+155], t$95$0, If[LessEqual[a, 6.8e+153], N[(N[(N[(b * b + 4.0), $MachinePrecision] * b), $MachinePrecision] * b + -1.0), $MachinePrecision], t$95$0]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if a < -8.1999999999999996e155 or 6.7999999999999995e153 < a

   1. Initial program 25.7%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

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

      1. *-commutative N/A

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

      2. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      3. unpow2 N/A

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

      4. associate-*r* N/A

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

      5. *-commutative N/A

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

      6. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      7. +-commutative N/A

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

      8. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

      9. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

      10. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      11. lower-pow.f64 48.6

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

   5. Applied rewrites 48.6%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

   8. Applied rewrites 100.0%

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

   if -8.1999999999999996e155 < a < 6.7999999999999995e153

   1. Initial program 88.5%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around inf

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left({a}^{3} \cdot \left(1 + \frac{1}{a}\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. unpow3 N/A

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

      2. unpow2 N/A

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

      3. associate-*l* N/A

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

      4. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

      5. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

      6. rgt-mult-inverse N/A

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

      7. +-commutative N/A

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

      8. unpow2 N/A

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

      9. associate-*r* N/A

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

      10. *-commutative N/A

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

      11. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      12. +-commutative N/A

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

      13. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

      14. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

      15. lower-fma.f64 93.7

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

   5. Applied rewrites 93.7%

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

   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. metadata-eval N/A

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

      3. metadata-eval N/A

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

      4. pow-sqr N/A

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

      5. distribute-rgt-in N/A

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

      6. *-commutative N/A

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

      7. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      8. +-commutative N/A

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

      9. unpow2 N/A

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

      10. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      11. unpow2 N/A

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

      12. lower-*.f64 81.0

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

   8. Applied rewrites 81.0%

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

   10. Applied rewrites 81.0%

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

Alternative 8: 69.8% accurate, 6.4× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \cdot b \leq 4.5 \cdot 10^{+307}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot 4 - 1\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(4, b \cdot b, -1\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (* b b) 4.5e+307) (- (* (* a a) 4.0) 1.0) (fma 4.0 (* b b) -1.0)))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if ((b * b) <= 4.5e+307) {
		tmp = ((a * a) * 4.0) - 1.0;
	} else {
		tmp = fma(4.0, (b * b), -1.0);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(b * b) <= 4.5e+307)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(Float64(a * a) * 4.0) - 1.0);
	else
		tmp = fma(4.0, Float64(b * b), -1.0);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision], 4.5e+307], N[(N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * 4.0), $MachinePrecision] - 1.0), $MachinePrecision], N[(4.0 * N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] + -1.0), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (*.f64 b b) < 4.50000000000000025e307

   1. Initial program 77.4%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

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

      1. *-commutative N/A

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

      2. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      3. unpow2 N/A

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

      4. associate-*r* N/A

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

      5. *-commutative N/A

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

      6. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      7. +-commutative N/A

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

      8. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

      9. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

      10. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      11. lower-pow.f64 55.7

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

   5. Applied rewrites 55.7%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

   8. Applied rewrites 54.1%

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

   if 4.50000000000000025e307 < (*.f64 b b)

   1. Initial program 55.1%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around inf

      \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left({a}^{3} \cdot \left(1 + \frac{1}{a}\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. unpow3 N/A

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

      2. unpow2 N/A

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

      3. associate-*l* N/A

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

      4. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

      5. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

      6. rgt-mult-inverse N/A

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

      7. +-commutative N/A

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

      8. unpow2 N/A

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

      9. associate-*r* N/A

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

      10. *-commutative N/A

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

      11. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      12. +-commutative N/A

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

      13. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

      14. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

      15. lower-fma.f64 82.6

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

   5. Applied rewrites 82.6%

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

   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. metadata-eval N/A

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

      3. metadata-eval N/A

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

      4. pow-sqr N/A

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

      5. distribute-rgt-in N/A

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

      6. *-commutative N/A

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

      7. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      8. +-commutative N/A

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

      9. unpow2 N/A

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

      10. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      11. unpow2 N/A

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

      12. 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 9: 51.6% 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 71.4%

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

3. Taylor expanded in a around inf

   \[\leadsto \left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left({a}^{3} \cdot \left(1 + \frac{1}{a}\right)\right)}\right) - 1 \]
4. Step-by-step derivation

   1. unpow3 N/A

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

   2. unpow2 N/A

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

   3. associate-*l* N/A

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

   4. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

   5. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

   6. rgt-mult-inverse N/A

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

   7. +-commutative N/A

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

   8. unpow2 N/A

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

   9. associate-*r* N/A

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

   10. *-commutative N/A

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

   11. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

   12. +-commutative N/A

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

   13. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

   14. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

   15. lower-fma.f64 81.4

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

5. Applied rewrites 81.4%

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

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. metadata-eval N/A

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

   3. metadata-eval N/A

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

   4. pow-sqr N/A

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

   5. distribute-rgt-in N/A

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

   6. *-commutative N/A

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

   7. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

   8. +-commutative N/A

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

   9. unpow2 N/A

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

   10. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

   11. unpow2 N/A

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

   12. lower-*.f64 70.5

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

8. Applied rewrites 70.5%

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

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 48.3%

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2024304 
(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))