NMSE Section 6.1 mentioned, B

Percentage Accurate: 78.5% → 99.7%
Time: 5.0s
Alternatives: 5
Speedup: 2.4×

Specification

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

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

Sampling outcomes in binary64 precision:

Local Percentage Accuracy vs ?

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

Accuracy vs Speed?

Herbie found 5 alternatives:

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

Initial Program: 78.5% accurate, 1.0× speedup?

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

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

Alternative 1: 99.7% accurate, 2.0× speedup?

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

\\
\frac{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{a + b}}{\left(a \cdot b\right) \cdot 2}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 82.3%

    \[\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
  2. Add Preprocessing
  3. Step-by-step derivation
    1. lift-*.f64N/A

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(1 \cdot b - a \cdot 1\right)}{2 \cdot \left(a \cdot b\right)}} \]
  4. Applied rewrites88.9%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\frac{\left(b - a\right) \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b - a}}{\color{blue}{b + a}}}{2 \cdot \left(a \cdot b\right)} \]
  6. Applied rewrites99.6%

    \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{\left(b - a\right) \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b - a}}{b + a}}}{2 \cdot \left(a \cdot b\right)} \]
  7. Step-by-step derivation
    1. Applied rewrites99.7%

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

    Alternative 2: 80.5% accurate, 1.8× speedup?

    \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1.22 \cdot 10^{+23} \lor \neg \left(b \leq 1.3 \cdot 10^{+36}\right):\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot a} \cdot 0.5\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{\left(a \cdot b\right) \cdot a}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]
    (FPCore (a b)
     :precision binary64
     (if (or (<= b -1.22e+23) (not (<= b 1.3e+36)))
       (* (/ (PI) (* (* b b) a)) 0.5)
       (* (PI) (/ 0.5 (* (* a b) a)))))
    \begin{array}{l}
    
    \\
    \begin{array}{l}
    \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1.22 \cdot 10^{+23} \lor \neg \left(b \leq 1.3 \cdot 10^{+36}\right):\\
    \;\;\;\;\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot a} \cdot 0.5\\
    
    \mathbf{else}:\\
    \;\;\;\;\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{\left(a \cdot b\right) \cdot a}\\
    
    
    \end{array}
    \end{array}
    
    Derivation
    1. Split input into 2 regimes
    2. if b < -1.22e23 or 1.3000000000000001e36 < b

      1. Initial program 78.6%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

          \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\color{blue}{\left(b \cdot b\right)} \cdot a} \cdot \frac{1}{2} \]
        8. lower-*.f6486.7

          \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\color{blue}{\left(b \cdot b\right)} \cdot a} \cdot 0.5 \]
      5. Applied rewrites86.7%

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

      if -1.22e23 < b < 1.3000000000000001e36

      1. Initial program 85.3%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

          \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot b} \cdot \frac{1}{2} \]
        7. lower-*.f6470.5

          \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot b} \cdot 0.5 \]
      5. Applied rewrites70.5%

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot b} \cdot 0.5} \]
      6. Step-by-step derivation
        1. Applied rewrites70.6%

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{0.5}{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot b}} \]
        2. Step-by-step derivation
          1. Applied rewrites80.3%

            \[\leadsto \mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{\left(a \cdot b\right) \cdot \color{blue}{a}} \]
        3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
        4. Final simplification83.1%

          \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1.22 \cdot 10^{+23} \lor \neg \left(b \leq 1.3 \cdot 10^{+36}\right):\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot a} \cdot 0.5\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{\left(a \cdot b\right) \cdot a}\\ \end{array} \]
        5. Add Preprocessing

        Alternative 3: 99.0% accurate, 2.4× speedup?

        \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(\left(b + a\right) \cdot 2\right) \cdot \left(b \cdot a\right)} \end{array} \]
        (FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (/ (PI) (* (* (+ b a) 2.0) (* b a))))
        \begin{array}{l}
        
        \\
        \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(\left(b + a\right) \cdot 2\right) \cdot \left(b \cdot a\right)}
        \end{array}
        
        Derivation
        1. Initial program 82.3%

          \[\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
        2. Add Preprocessing
        3. Step-by-step derivation
          1. lift-*.f64N/A

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(\mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(1 \cdot b - a \cdot 1\right)}{2 \cdot \left(a \cdot b\right)}} \]
        4. Applied rewrites88.9%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

            \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\frac{\left(b - a\right) \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b - a}}{\color{blue}{b + a}}}{2 \cdot \left(a \cdot b\right)} \]
        6. Applied rewrites99.6%

          \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{\left(b - a\right) \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{b - a}}{b + a}}}{2 \cdot \left(a \cdot b\right)} \]
        7. Step-by-step derivation
          1. Applied rewrites99.7%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

              \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\color{blue}{\left(\left(b + a\right) \cdot 2\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot b\right)}} \]
            18. lower-*.f6498.6

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

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

              \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(\left(b + a\right) \cdot 2\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(b \cdot a\right)}} \]
            21. lift-*.f6498.6

              \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(\left(b + a\right) \cdot 2\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(b \cdot a\right)}} \]
          3. Applied rewrites98.6%

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

          Alternative 4: 62.7% accurate, 2.6× speedup?

          \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{\left(a \cdot b\right) \cdot a} \end{array} \]
          (FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (* (PI) (/ 0.5 (* (* a b) a))))
          \begin{array}{l}
          
          \\
          \mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{\left(a \cdot b\right) \cdot a}
          \end{array}
          
          Derivation
          1. Initial program 82.3%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

              \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot b} \cdot \frac{1}{2} \]
            7. lower-*.f6454.2

              \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot b} \cdot 0.5 \]
          5. Applied rewrites54.2%

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot b} \cdot 0.5} \]
          6. Step-by-step derivation
            1. Applied rewrites54.3%

              \[\leadsto \mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{0.5}{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot b}} \]
            2. Step-by-step derivation
              1. Applied rewrites59.6%

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

              Alternative 5: 57.0% accurate, 2.6× speedup?

              \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot b} \end{array} \]
              (FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (* (PI) (/ 0.5 (* (* a a) b))))
              \begin{array}{l}
              
              \\
              \mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot b}
              \end{array}
              
              Derivation
              1. Initial program 82.3%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

                  \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot b} \cdot \frac{1}{2} \]
                7. lower-*.f6454.2

                  \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)} \cdot b} \cdot 0.5 \]
              5. Applied rewrites54.2%

                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot b} \cdot 0.5} \]
              6. Step-by-step derivation
                1. Applied rewrites54.3%

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

                Reproduce

                ?
                herbie shell --seed 2025017 
                (FPCore (a b)
                  :name "NMSE Section 6.1 mentioned, B"
                  :precision binary64
                  (* (* (/ (PI) 2.0) (/ 1.0 (- (* b b) (* a a)))) (- (/ 1.0 a) (/ 1.0 b))))