Bouland and Aaronson, Equation (26)

Percentage Accurate: 99.9% → 99.9%

Time: 7.9s

Alternatives: 11

Speedup: 1.0×

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

Specification

Math

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

FPCore

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

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	return (pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + (4.0 * (b * b))) - 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 * (b * b))) - 1.0d0
end function

Java

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

Python

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

Julia

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

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = ((((a * a) + (b * b)) ^ 2.0) + (4.0 * (b * b))) - 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[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - 1.0), $MachinePrecision]

Initial Program: 99.9% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

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

FPCore

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

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	return (pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + (4.0 * (b * b))) - 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 * (b * b))) - 1.0d0
end function

Java

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

Python

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

Julia

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

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = ((((a * a) + (b * b)) ^ 2.0) + (4.0 * (b * b))) - 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[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - 1.0), $MachinePrecision]

Alternative 1: 99.9% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

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

FPCore

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

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	return (pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + (4.0 * (b * b))) - 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 * (b * b))) - 1.0d0
end function

Java

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

Python

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

Julia

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

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = ((((a * a) + (b * b)) ^ 2.0) + (4.0 * (b * b))) - 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[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - 1.0), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 99.9%

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

Alternative 2: 69.2% accurate, 0.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;{\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right) \leq 0.004:\\ \;\;\;\;-1\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (+ (pow (+ (* a a) (* b b)) 2.0) (* 4.0 (* b b))) 0.004)
   -1.0
   (* (* b b) (* b b))))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if ((pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + (4.0 * (b * b))) <= 0.004) {
		tmp = -1.0;
	} else {
		tmp = (b * b) * (b * b);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8) :: tmp
    if (((((a * a) + (b * b)) ** 2.0d0) + (4.0d0 * (b * b))) <= 0.004d0) then
        tmp = -1.0d0
    else
        tmp = (b * b) * (b * b)
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if ((Math.pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + (4.0 * (b * b))) <= 0.004) {
		tmp = -1.0;
	} else {
		tmp = (b * b) * (b * b);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b):
	tmp = 0
	if (math.pow(((a * a) + (b * b)), 2.0) + (4.0 * (b * b))) <= 0.004:
		tmp = -1.0
	else:
		tmp = (b * b) * (b * b)
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64((Float64(Float64(a * a) + Float64(b * b)) ^ 2.0) + Float64(4.0 * Float64(b * b))) <= 0.004)
		tmp = -1.0;
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(b * b) * Float64(b * b));
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (((((a * a) + (b * b)) ^ 2.0) + (4.0 * (b * b))) <= 0.004)
		tmp = -1.0;
	else
		tmp = (b * b) * (b * b);
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[(N[Power[N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] + N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], 2.0], $MachinePrecision] + N[(4.0 * N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], 0.004], -1.0, N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] * N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (+.f64 (pow.f64 (+.f64 (*.f64 a a) (*.f64 b b)) #s(literal 2 binary64)) (*.f64 #s(literal 4 binary64) (*.f64 b b))) < 0.0040000000000000001

   1. Initial program 100.0%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. sub-neg N/A

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

      2. +-commutative N/A

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

      3. metadata-eval N/A

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

      4. pow-sqr N/A

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

      5. distribute-rgt-out N/A

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

      6. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      7. unpow2 N/A

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

      8. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      9. unpow2 N/A

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

      10. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      11. metadata-eval 98.9

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

   5. Applied rewrites 98.9%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around 0

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

   8. Applied rewrites 98.9%

      \[\leadsto -1 \]

   if 0.0040000000000000001 < (+.f64 (pow.f64 (+.f64 (*.f64 a a) (*.f64 b b)) #s(literal 2 binary64)) (*.f64 #s(literal 4 binary64) (*.f64 b b)))

   1. Initial program 99.9%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

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

      1. unpow2 N/A

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

      2. associate-*l* N/A

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

      3. *-commutative N/A

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

      4. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      5. *-commutative N/A

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

      6. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      7. +-commutative N/A

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

      8. *-commutative N/A

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

      9. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      10. unpow2 N/A

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

      11. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      12. lower-pow.f64 87.6

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

   5. Applied rewrites 87.6%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around inf

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

      1. lower-pow.f64 52.7

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

   8. Applied rewrites 52.7%

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

   10. Applied rewrites 52.7%

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

Alternative 3: 97.7% accurate, 0.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;a \cdot a \leq 5 \cdot 10^{-56}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, 4, {b}^{4}\right) - 1\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 2, 4\right) \cdot b, b, {a}^{4}\right) - 1\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (* a a) 5e-56)
   (- (fma (* b b) 4.0 (pow b 4.0)) 1.0)
   (- (fma (* (fma (* a a) 2.0 4.0) b) b (pow a 4.0)) 1.0)))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if ((a * a) <= 5e-56) {
		tmp = fma((b * b), 4.0, pow(b, 4.0)) - 1.0;
	} else {
		tmp = fma((fma((a * a), 2.0, 4.0) * b), b, pow(a, 4.0)) - 1.0;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(a * a) <= 5e-56)
		tmp = Float64(fma(Float64(b * b), 4.0, (b ^ 4.0)) - 1.0);
	else
		tmp = Float64(fma(Float64(fma(Float64(a * a), 2.0, 4.0) * b), b, (a ^ 4.0)) - 1.0);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision], 5e-56], N[(N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] * 4.0 + N[Power[b, 4.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - 1.0), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(N[(N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * 2.0 + 4.0), $MachinePrecision] * b), $MachinePrecision] * b + N[Power[a, 4.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - 1.0), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (*.f64 a a) < 4.99999999999999997e-56

   1. Initial program 99.9%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. *-commutative N/A

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

      2. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      3. unpow2 N/A

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

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      5. lower-pow.f64 100.0

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

   5. Applied rewrites 100.0%

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

   if 4.99999999999999997e-56 < (*.f64 a a)

   1. Initial program 99.9%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

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

      1. unpow2 N/A

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

      2. associate-*l* N/A

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

      3. *-commutative N/A

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

      4. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      5. *-commutative N/A

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

      6. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      7. +-commutative N/A

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

      8. *-commutative N/A

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

      9. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      10. unpow2 N/A

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

      11. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      12. lower-pow.f64 98.8

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

   5. Applied rewrites 98.8%

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

Alternative 4: 97.7% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;a \cdot a \leq 5 \cdot 10^{-56}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, 4, {b}^{4}\right) - 1\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 2, 4\right) \cdot b, b, \left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right)\right) - 1\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (* a a) 5e-56)
   (- (fma (* b b) 4.0 (pow b 4.0)) 1.0)
   (- (fma (* (fma (* a a) 2.0 4.0) b) b (* (* a a) (* a a))) 1.0)))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if ((a * a) <= 5e-56) {
		tmp = fma((b * b), 4.0, pow(b, 4.0)) - 1.0;
	} else {
		tmp = fma((fma((a * a), 2.0, 4.0) * b), b, ((a * a) * (a * a))) - 1.0;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(a * a) <= 5e-56)
		tmp = Float64(fma(Float64(b * b), 4.0, (b ^ 4.0)) - 1.0);
	else
		tmp = Float64(fma(Float64(fma(Float64(a * a), 2.0, 4.0) * b), b, Float64(Float64(a * a) * Float64(a * a))) - 1.0);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision], 5e-56], N[(N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] * 4.0 + N[Power[b, 4.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - 1.0), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(N[(N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * 2.0 + 4.0), $MachinePrecision] * b), $MachinePrecision] * b + N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - 1.0), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (*.f64 a a) < 4.99999999999999997e-56

   1. Initial program 99.9%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. *-commutative N/A

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

      2. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      3. unpow2 N/A

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

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      5. lower-pow.f64 100.0

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

   5. Applied rewrites 100.0%

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

   if 4.99999999999999997e-56 < (*.f64 a a)

   1. Initial program 99.9%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

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

      1. unpow2 N/A

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

      2. associate-*l* N/A

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

      3. *-commutative N/A

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

      4. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      5. *-commutative N/A

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

      6. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      7. +-commutative N/A

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

      8. *-commutative N/A

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

      9. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      10. unpow2 N/A

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

      11. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      12. lower-pow.f64 98.8

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

   5. Applied rewrites 98.8%

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

   7. Applied rewrites 98.7%

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

Alternative 5: 97.0% accurate, 2.5× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;a \cdot a \leq 5 \cdot 10^{-56}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot b, b, -1\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot a, 2, 4\right) \cdot b, b, \left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right)\right) - 1\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (* a a) 5e-56)
   (fma (* (* b b) b) b -1.0)
   (- (fma (* (fma (* a a) 2.0 4.0) b) b (* (* a a) (* a a))) 1.0)))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if ((a * a) <= 5e-56) {
		tmp = fma(((b * b) * b), b, -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = fma((fma((a * a), 2.0, 4.0) * b), b, ((a * a) * (a * a))) - 1.0;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(a * a) <= 5e-56)
		tmp = fma(Float64(Float64(b * b) * b), b, -1.0);
	else
		tmp = Float64(fma(Float64(fma(Float64(a * a), 2.0, 4.0) * b), b, Float64(Float64(a * a) * Float64(a * a))) - 1.0);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision], 5e-56], N[(N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] * b), $MachinePrecision] * b + -1.0), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(N[(N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * 2.0 + 4.0), $MachinePrecision] * b), $MachinePrecision] * b + N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - 1.0), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (*.f64 a a) < 4.99999999999999997e-56

   1. Initial program 99.9%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. sub-neg N/A

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

      2. +-commutative N/A

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

      3. metadata-eval N/A

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

      4. pow-sqr N/A

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

      5. distribute-rgt-out N/A

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

      6. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      7. unpow2 N/A

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

      8. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      9. unpow2 N/A

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

      10. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      11. metadata-eval 99.9

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

   5. Applied rewrites 99.9%

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

   7. Applied rewrites 99.9%

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

   8. Taylor expanded in b around inf

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

   10. Applied rewrites 99.9%

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

   if 4.99999999999999997e-56 < (*.f64 a a)

   1. Initial program 99.9%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

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

      1. unpow2 N/A

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

      2. associate-*l* N/A

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

      3. *-commutative N/A

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

      4. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      5. *-commutative N/A

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

      6. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      7. +-commutative N/A

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

      8. *-commutative N/A

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

      9. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      10. unpow2 N/A

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

      11. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      12. lower-pow.f64 98.8

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

   5. Applied rewrites 98.8%

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

   7. Applied rewrites 98.7%

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

Alternative 6: 97.6% accurate, 3.4× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;a \cdot a \leq 0.05:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot b, b, -1\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, 2, a \cdot a\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot a\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (* a a) 0.05)
   (fma (* (* b b) b) b -1.0)
   (* (* (fma (* b b) 2.0 (* a a)) a) a)))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if ((a * a) <= 0.05) {
		tmp = fma(((b * b) * b), b, -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = (fma((b * b), 2.0, (a * a)) * a) * a;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(a * a) <= 0.05)
		tmp = fma(Float64(Float64(b * b) * b), b, -1.0);
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(fma(Float64(b * b), 2.0, Float64(a * a)) * a) * a);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision], 0.05], N[(N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] * b), $MachinePrecision] * b + -1.0), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] * 2.0 + N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (*.f64 a a) < 0.050000000000000003

   1. Initial program 99.9%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. sub-neg N/A

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

      2. +-commutative N/A

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

      3. metadata-eval N/A

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

      4. pow-sqr N/A

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

      5. distribute-rgt-out N/A

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

      6. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      7. unpow2 N/A

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

      8. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      9. unpow2 N/A

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

      10. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      11. metadata-eval 99.3

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

   5. Applied rewrites 99.3%

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

   7. Applied rewrites 99.3%

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

   8. Taylor expanded in b around inf

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

   10. Applied rewrites 99.3%

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

   if 0.050000000000000003 < (*.f64 a a)

   1. Initial program 99.9%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

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

      1. unpow2 N/A

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

      2. associate-*l* N/A

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

      3. *-commutative N/A

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

      4. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      5. *-commutative N/A

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

      6. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      7. +-commutative N/A

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

      8. *-commutative N/A

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

      9. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      10. unpow2 N/A

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

      11. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      12. lower-pow.f64 98.7

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

   5. Applied rewrites 98.7%

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

   7. Applied rewrites 98.6%

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

   8. Taylor expanded in a around inf

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

      1. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

      2. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

      3. metadata-eval N/A

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

      4. pow-sqr N/A

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

      5. *-commutative N/A

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

      6. associate-*r/ N/A

         \[\leadsto {a}^{2} \cdot {a}^{2} + \color{blue}{\frac{2 \cdot {b}^{2}}{{a}^{2}}} \cdot {a}^{4} \]

      7. associate-*l/ N/A

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

      8. associate-/l* N/A

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

      9. metadata-eval N/A

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

      10. pow-sqr N/A

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

      11. associate-/l* N/A

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

      12. *-inverses N/A

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

      13. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

      14. *-commutative N/A

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

      15. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

      16. +-commutative N/A

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

      17. *-commutative N/A

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

      18. unpow2 N/A

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

   10. Applied rewrites 98.7%

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

Alternative 7: 94.5% accurate, 4.4× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \cdot b \leq 10^{+15}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right) - 1\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot b, b, -1\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (* b b) 1e+15)
   (- (* (* a a) (* a a)) 1.0)
   (fma (* (* b b) b) b -1.0)))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if ((b * b) <= 1e+15) {
		tmp = ((a * a) * (a * a)) - 1.0;
	} else {
		tmp = fma(((b * b) * b), b, -1.0);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(b * b) <= 1e+15)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(Float64(a * a) * Float64(a * a)) - 1.0);
	else
		tmp = fma(Float64(Float64(b * b) * b), b, -1.0);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision], 1e+15], N[(N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - 1.0), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] * b), $MachinePrecision] * b + -1.0), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (*.f64 b b) < 1e15

   1. Initial program 99.9%

      \[\left({\left(a \cdot a + b \cdot b\right)}^{2} + 4 \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right)\right) - 1 \]
   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 100.0

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

   5. Applied rewrites 100.0%

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

   7. Applied rewrites 99.9%

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

   if 1e15 < (*.f64 b b)

   1. Initial program 99.9%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. sub-neg N/A

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

      2. +-commutative N/A

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

      3. metadata-eval N/A

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

      4. pow-sqr N/A

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

      5. distribute-rgt-out N/A

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

      6. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      7. unpow2 N/A

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

      8. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      9. unpow2 N/A

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

      10. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      11. metadata-eval 90.6

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

   5. Applied rewrites 90.6%

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

   7. Applied rewrites 90.6%

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

   8. Taylor expanded in b around inf

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

   10. Applied rewrites 90.6%

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

Alternative 8: 93.9% accurate, 4.7× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;a \cdot a \leq 10^{+14}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot b, b, -1\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot a\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (* a a) 1e+14) (fma (* (* b b) b) b -1.0) (* (* (* a a) a) a)))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if ((a * a) <= 1e+14) {
		tmp = fma(((b * b) * b), b, -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = ((a * a) * a) * a;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(a * a) <= 1e+14)
		tmp = fma(Float64(Float64(b * b) * b), b, -1.0);
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(Float64(a * a) * a) * a);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision], 1e+14], N[(N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] * b), $MachinePrecision] * b + -1.0), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (*.f64 a a) < 1e14

   1. Initial program 99.9%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. sub-neg N/A

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

      2. +-commutative N/A

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

      3. metadata-eval N/A

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

      4. pow-sqr N/A

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

      5. distribute-rgt-out N/A

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

      6. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      7. unpow2 N/A

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

      8. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      9. unpow2 N/A

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

      10. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      11. metadata-eval 98.5

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

   5. Applied rewrites 98.5%

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

   7. Applied rewrites 98.5%

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

   8. Taylor expanded in b around inf

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

   10. Applied rewrites 98.5%

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

   if 1e14 < (*.f64 a a)

   1. Initial program 99.9%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

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

      1. unpow2 N/A

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

      2. associate-*l* N/A

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

      3. *-commutative N/A

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

      4. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      5. *-commutative N/A

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

      6. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      7. +-commutative N/A

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

      8. *-commutative N/A

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

      9. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      10. unpow2 N/A

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

      11. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      12. lower-pow.f64 98.7

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

   5. Applied rewrites 98.7%

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

   7. Applied rewrites 98.6%

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

   8. Taylor expanded in a around inf

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

      1. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

      2. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

      3. metadata-eval N/A

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

      4. pow-sqr N/A

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

      5. *-commutative N/A

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

      6. associate-*r/ N/A

         \[\leadsto {a}^{2} \cdot {a}^{2} + \color{blue}{\frac{2 \cdot {b}^{2}}{{a}^{2}}} \cdot {a}^{4} \]

      7. associate-*l/ N/A

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

      8. associate-/l* N/A

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

      9. metadata-eval N/A

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

      10. pow-sqr N/A

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

      11. associate-/l* N/A

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

      12. *-inverses N/A

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

      13. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

      14. *-commutative N/A

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

      15. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

      16. +-commutative N/A

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

      17. *-commutative N/A

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

      18. unpow2 N/A

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

   10. Applied rewrites 98.6%

       \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, 2, a \cdot a\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot a} \]

   11. Taylor expanded in a around inf

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

   13. Applied rewrites 90.3%

       \[\leadsto \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot a \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
4. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 9: 82.6% accurate, 4.8× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;a \cdot a \leq 10^{+14}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(4 \cdot b, b, -1\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot a\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (* a a) 1e+14) (fma (* 4.0 b) b -1.0) (* (* (* a a) a) a)))

C

double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if ((a * a) <= 1e+14) {
		tmp = fma((4.0 * b), b, -1.0);
	} else {
		tmp = ((a * a) * a) * a;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(a * a) <= 1e+14)
		tmp = fma(Float64(4.0 * b), b, -1.0);
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(Float64(a * a) * a) * a);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision], 1e+14], N[(N[(4.0 * b), $MachinePrecision] * b + -1.0), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (*.f64 a a) < 1e14

   1. Initial program 99.9%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

      1. sub-neg N/A

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

      2. +-commutative N/A

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

      3. metadata-eval N/A

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

      4. pow-sqr N/A

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

      5. distribute-rgt-out N/A

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

      6. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      7. unpow2 N/A

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

      8. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      9. unpow2 N/A

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

      10. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      11. metadata-eval 98.5

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

   5. Applied rewrites 98.5%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around 0

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

   8. Applied rewrites 79.3%

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

   if 1e14 < (*.f64 a a)

   1. Initial program 99.9%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in b around 0

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

      1. unpow2 N/A

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

      2. associate-*l* N/A

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

      3. *-commutative N/A

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

      4. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      5. *-commutative N/A

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

      6. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      7. +-commutative N/A

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

      8. *-commutative N/A

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

      9. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      10. unpow2 N/A

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

      11. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      12. lower-pow.f64 98.7

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

   5. Applied rewrites 98.7%

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

   7. Applied rewrites 98.6%

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

   8. Taylor expanded in a around inf

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

      1. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

      2. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

      3. metadata-eval N/A

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

      4. pow-sqr N/A

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

      5. *-commutative N/A

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

      6. associate-*r/ N/A

         \[\leadsto {a}^{2} \cdot {a}^{2} + \color{blue}{\frac{2 \cdot {b}^{2}}{{a}^{2}}} \cdot {a}^{4} \]

      7. associate-*l/ N/A

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

      8. associate-/l* N/A

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

      9. metadata-eval N/A

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

      10. pow-sqr N/A

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

      11. associate-/l* N/A

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

      12. *-inverses N/A

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

      13. *-rgt-identity N/A

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

      14. *-commutative N/A

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

      15. distribute-lft-in N/A

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

      16. +-commutative N/A

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

      17. *-commutative N/A

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

      18. unpow2 N/A

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

   10. Applied rewrites 98.6%

       \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot b, 2, a \cdot a\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot a} \]

   11. Taylor expanded in a around inf

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

   13. Applied rewrites 90.3%

       \[\leadsto \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot a \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
4. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 10: 50.8% accurate, 10.9× speedup

Math

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

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(Float64(4.0 * b), b, -1.0)
end

Wolfram

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

Derivation

1. Initial program 99.9%

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

3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

   1. sub-neg N/A

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

   2. +-commutative N/A

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

   3. metadata-eval N/A

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

   4. pow-sqr N/A

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

   5. distribute-rgt-out N/A

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

   6. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

   7. unpow2 N/A

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

   8. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

   9. unpow2 N/A

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

   10. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

   11. metadata-eval 63.5

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

5. Applied rewrites 63.5%

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

6. Taylor expanded in b around 0

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

8. Applied rewrites 51.5%

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

Alternative 11: 24.6% accurate, 131.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ -1 \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 -1.0)

C

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

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    code = -1.0d0
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return -1.0;
}

Python

def code(a, b):
	return -1.0

Julia

function code(a, b)
	return -1.0
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = -1.0;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_] := -1.0

Derivation

1. Initial program 99.9%

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

3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

   1. sub-neg N/A

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

   2. +-commutative N/A

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

   3. metadata-eval N/A

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

   4. pow-sqr N/A

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

   5. distribute-rgt-out N/A

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

   6. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

   7. unpow2 N/A

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

   8. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

   9. unpow2 N/A

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

   10. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

   11. metadata-eval 63.5

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

5. Applied rewrites 63.5%

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

6. Taylor expanded in b around 0

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

8. Applied rewrites 24.5%

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2024312 
(FPCore (a b)
  :name "Bouland and Aaronson, Equation (26)"
  :precision binary64
  (- (+ (pow (+ (* a a) (* b b)) 2.0) (* 4.0 (* b b))) 1.0))