NMSE Section 6.1 mentioned, B

Percentage Accurate: 77.9% → 99.7%
Time: 6.2s
Alternatives: 6
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 6 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: 77.9% 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 77.5%

    \[\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
  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 rewrites86.9%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\left(b - a\right) \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\color{blue}{\left(b - a\right) \cdot \left(a + b\right)}}}{2 \cdot \left(a \cdot b\right)} \]
    17. lower-*.f6486.5

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

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

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\left(b - a\right) \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(b - a\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(b + a\right)}}}{2 \cdot \left(a \cdot b\right)} \]
    20. lower-+.f6486.5

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\left(b - a\right) \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(b - a\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(b + a\right)}}}{2 \cdot \left(a \cdot b\right)} \]
  6. Applied rewrites86.5%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{a + b}}{\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot b\right) \cdot 2}} \]
  8. Applied rewrites99.7%

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

Alternative 2: 86.8% accurate, 1.8× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;a \leq -1.6 \cdot 10^{-23} \lor \neg \left(a \leq 1.9 \cdot 10^{-33}\right):\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot b\right) \cdot a} \cdot 0.5\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(b \cdot a\right) \cdot b} \cdot 0.5\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b)
 :precision binary64
 (if (or (<= a -1.6e-23) (not (<= a 1.9e-33)))
   (* (/ (PI) (* (* a b) a)) 0.5)
   (* (/ (PI) (* (* b a) b)) 0.5)))
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\begin{array}{l}
\mathbf{if}\;a \leq -1.6 \cdot 10^{-23} \lor \neg \left(a \leq 1.9 \cdot 10^{-33}\right):\\
\;\;\;\;\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot b\right) \cdot a} \cdot 0.5\\

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


\end{array}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Split input into 2 regimes
  2. if a < -1.59999999999999988e-23 or 1.89999999999999997e-33 < a

    1. Initial program 73.9%

      \[\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
    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 rewrites87.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a + b\right) \cdot \left(b - a\right)} \cdot \left(b - a\right)}{2 \cdot \left(a \cdot b\right)}} \]
    5. Taylor expanded in a around inf

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

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

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

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

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

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

        \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot b} \cdot \frac{1}{2} \]
      7. lower-*.f6478.2

        \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot b} \cdot 0.5 \]
    7. Applied rewrites78.2%

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

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

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

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

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

        \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot b\right) \cdot a} \cdot \frac{1}{2} \]
      6. lower-*.f6490.3

        \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot b\right) \cdot a} \cdot 0.5 \]
    9. Applied rewrites90.3%

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

    if -1.59999999999999988e-23 < a < 1.89999999999999997e-33

    1. Initial program 81.3%

      \[\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
    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 rewrites86.8%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a + b\right) \cdot \left(b - a\right)} \cdot \left(b - a\right)}{2 \cdot \left(a \cdot b\right)}} \]
    5. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

        \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(b \cdot a\right) \cdot b} \cdot \frac{1}{2} \]
      9. lower-*.f6485.8

        \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(b \cdot a\right) \cdot b} \cdot 0.5 \]
    7. Applied rewrites85.8%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(b \cdot a\right) \cdot b} \cdot 0.5} \]
  3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
  4. Final simplification88.1%

    \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;a \leq -1.6 \cdot 10^{-23} \lor \neg \left(a \leq 1.9 \cdot 10^{-33}\right):\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot b\right) \cdot a} \cdot 0.5\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(b \cdot a\right) \cdot b} \cdot 0.5\\ \end{array} \]
  5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 3: 99.1% accurate, 2.4× speedup?

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

\\
\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a + b\right) \cdot \left(\left(a \cdot b\right) \cdot 2\right)}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 77.5%

    \[\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
  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 rewrites86.9%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\left(b - a\right) \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\color{blue}{\left(b - a\right) \cdot \left(a + b\right)}}}{2 \cdot \left(a \cdot b\right)} \]
    17. lower-*.f6486.5

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

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

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\left(b - a\right) \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(b - a\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(b + a\right)}}}{2 \cdot \left(a \cdot b\right)} \]
    20. lower-+.f6486.5

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\left(b - a\right) \cdot \mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(b - a\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(b + a\right)}}}{2 \cdot \left(a \cdot b\right)} \]
  6. Applied rewrites86.5%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a + b\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot b\right) \cdot 2\right)}} \]
  8. Applied rewrites98.8%

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

Alternative 4: 63.1% accurate, 2.6× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot b\right) \cdot a} \cdot 0.5 \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (* (/ (PI) (* (* a b) a)) 0.5))
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot b\right) \cdot a} \cdot 0.5
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 77.5%

    \[\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
  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 rewrites86.9%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a + b\right) \cdot \left(b - a\right)} \cdot \left(b - a\right)}{2 \cdot \left(a \cdot b\right)}} \]
  5. Taylor expanded in a around inf

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

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

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

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

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

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

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot b} \cdot \frac{1}{2} \]
    7. lower-*.f6455.6

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot b} \cdot 0.5 \]
  7. Applied rewrites55.6%

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

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

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

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

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

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot b\right) \cdot a} \cdot \frac{1}{2} \]
    6. lower-*.f6461.8

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot b\right) \cdot a} \cdot 0.5 \]
  9. Applied rewrites61.8%

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

Alternative 5: 57.3% accurate, 2.6× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot b} \cdot 0.5 \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b) :precision binary64 (* (/ (PI) (* (* a a) b)) 0.5))
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot b} \cdot 0.5
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 77.5%

    \[\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
  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 rewrites86.9%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a + b\right) \cdot \left(b - a\right)} \cdot \left(b - a\right)}{2 \cdot \left(a \cdot b\right)}} \]
  5. Taylor expanded in a around inf

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

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

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

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

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

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

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot b} \cdot \frac{1}{2} \]
    7. lower-*.f6455.6

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot b} \cdot 0.5 \]
  7. Applied rewrites55.6%

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

Alternative 6: 57.3% 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 77.5%

    \[\left(\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
  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 rewrites86.9%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a + b\right) \cdot \left(b - a\right)} \cdot \left(b - a\right)}{2 \cdot \left(a \cdot b\right)}} \]
  5. Taylor expanded in a around inf

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

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

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

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

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

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

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot b} \cdot \frac{1}{2} \]
    7. lower-*.f6455.6

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot b} \cdot 0.5 \]
  7. Applied rewrites55.6%

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

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

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

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

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

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot b}} \]
    6. lower-/.f6455.6

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{PI}\left(\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot b}} \]
  9. Applied rewrites55.6%

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

Reproduce

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herbie shell --seed 2025026 
(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))))