NMSE Section 6.1 mentioned, B

Percentage Accurate: 78.1% → 99.6%
Time: 4.7s
Alternatives: 4
Speedup: 2.5×

Specification

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\[\left(\frac{\pi}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
(FPCore (a b)
  :precision binary64
  (* (* (/ PI 2.0) (/ 1.0 (- (* b b) (* a a)))) (- (/ 1.0 a) (/ 1.0 b))))
double code(double a, double b) {
	return ((((double) M_PI) / 2.0) * (1.0 / ((b * b) - (a * a)))) * ((1.0 / a) - (1.0 / b));
}
public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return ((Math.PI / 2.0) * (1.0 / ((b * b) - (a * a)))) * ((1.0 / a) - (1.0 / b));
}
def code(a, b):
	return ((math.pi / 2.0) * (1.0 / ((b * b) - (a * a)))) * ((1.0 / a) - (1.0 / b))
function code(a, b)
	return Float64(Float64(Float64(pi / 2.0) * Float64(1.0 / Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(a * a)))) * Float64(Float64(1.0 / a) - Float64(1.0 / b)))
end
function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = ((pi / 2.0) * (1.0 / ((b * b) - (a * a)))) * ((1.0 / a) - (1.0 / b));
end
code[a_, b_] := N[(N[(N[(Pi / 2.0), $MachinePrecision] * N[(1.0 / N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * N[(N[(1.0 / a), $MachinePrecision] - N[(1.0 / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
\left(\frac{\pi}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)

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 4 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: 78.1% accurate, 1.0× speedup?

\[\left(\frac{\pi}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \]
(FPCore (a b)
  :precision binary64
  (* (* (/ PI 2.0) (/ 1.0 (- (* b b) (* a a)))) (- (/ 1.0 a) (/ 1.0 b))))
double code(double a, double b) {
	return ((((double) M_PI) / 2.0) * (1.0 / ((b * b) - (a * a)))) * ((1.0 / a) - (1.0 / b));
}
public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return ((Math.PI / 2.0) * (1.0 / ((b * b) - (a * a)))) * ((1.0 / a) - (1.0 / b));
}
def code(a, b):
	return ((math.pi / 2.0) * (1.0 / ((b * b) - (a * a)))) * ((1.0 / a) - (1.0 / b))
function code(a, b)
	return Float64(Float64(Float64(pi / 2.0) * Float64(1.0 / Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(a * a)))) * Float64(Float64(1.0 / a) - Float64(1.0 / b)))
end
function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = ((pi / 2.0) * (1.0 / ((b * b) - (a * a)))) * ((1.0 / a) - (1.0 / b));
end
code[a_, b_] := N[(N[(N[(Pi / 2.0), $MachinePrecision] * N[(1.0 / N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * N[(N[(1.0 / a), $MachinePrecision] - N[(1.0 / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
\left(\frac{\pi}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right)

Alternative 1: 99.6% accurate, 2.0× speedup?

\[\frac{\pi \cdot \frac{0.5}{b \cdot a}}{b + a} \]
(FPCore (a b)
  :precision binary64
  (/ (* PI (/ 0.5 (* b a))) (+ b a)))
double code(double a, double b) {
	return (((double) M_PI) * (0.5 / (b * a))) / (b + a);
}
public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return (Math.PI * (0.5 / (b * a))) / (b + a);
}
def code(a, b):
	return (math.pi * (0.5 / (b * a))) / (b + a)
function code(a, b)
	return Float64(Float64(pi * Float64(0.5 / Float64(b * a))) / Float64(b + a))
end
function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = (pi * (0.5 / (b * a))) / (b + a);
end
code[a_, b_] := N[(N[(Pi * N[(0.5 / N[(b * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(b + a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
\frac{\pi \cdot \frac{0.5}{b \cdot a}}{b + a}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 78.1%

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

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

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

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

      \[\leadsto \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{\pi}{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}}\right) \]
    5. mult-flip-revN/A

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

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

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

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

      \[\leadsto \frac{\left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \cdot \frac{\pi}{2}}{\color{blue}{b \cdot b} - a \cdot a} \]
    10. difference-of-squaresN/A

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

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

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

      \[\leadsto \frac{\left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \cdot \frac{\pi}{2}}{\left(1 \cdot b - \color{blue}{a \cdot 1}\right) \cdot \left(b + a\right)} \]
    14. times-fracN/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}}{1 \cdot b - a \cdot 1} \cdot \frac{\frac{\pi}{2}}{b + a}} \]
    15. lower-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}}{1 \cdot b - a \cdot 1} \cdot \frac{\frac{\pi}{2}}{b + a}} \]
  3. Applied rewrites99.6%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{b - a}{a \cdot b}}{b - a} \cdot \frac{0.5 \cdot \pi}{a + b}} \]
  4. Applied rewrites99.7%

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

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{\pi}{a + b}}{2 \cdot \left(a \cdot b\right)}} \]
    2. mult-flipN/A

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

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

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

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

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

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

      \[\leadsto \frac{\pi \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{a \cdot b}}}{a + b} \]
    9. metadata-evalN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\pi \cdot \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{2}}}{a \cdot b}}{a + b} \]
    10. lower-/.f6499.6%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\pi \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{0.5}{a \cdot b}}}{a + b} \]
    11. lift-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\pi \cdot \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\color{blue}{a \cdot b}}}{a + b} \]
    12. *-commutativeN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\pi \cdot \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\color{blue}{b \cdot a}}}{a + b} \]
    13. lower-*.f6499.6%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\pi \cdot \frac{0.5}{\color{blue}{b \cdot a}}}{a + b} \]
    14. lift-+.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\pi \cdot \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{b \cdot a}}{\color{blue}{a + b}} \]
    15. +-commutativeN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\pi \cdot \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{b \cdot a}}{\color{blue}{b + a}} \]
    16. lower-+.f6499.6%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\pi \cdot \frac{0.5}{b \cdot a}}{\color{blue}{b + a}} \]
  6. Applied rewrites99.6%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\pi \cdot \frac{0.5}{b \cdot a}}{b + a}} \]
  7. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 2: 98.9% accurate, 2.5× speedup?

\[\frac{\pi}{\left(\left(a + a\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(b + a\right)} \]
(FPCore (a b)
  :precision binary64
  (/ PI (* (* (+ a a) b) (+ b a))))
double code(double a, double b) {
	return ((double) M_PI) / (((a + a) * b) * (b + a));
}
public static double code(double a, double b) {
	return Math.PI / (((a + a) * b) * (b + a));
}
def code(a, b):
	return math.pi / (((a + a) * b) * (b + a))
function code(a, b)
	return Float64(pi / Float64(Float64(Float64(a + a) * b) * Float64(b + a)))
end
function tmp = code(a, b)
	tmp = pi / (((a + a) * b) * (b + a));
end
code[a_, b_] := N[(Pi / N[(N[(N[(a + a), $MachinePrecision] * b), $MachinePrecision] * N[(b + a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
\frac{\pi}{\left(\left(a + a\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(b + a\right)}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 78.1%

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

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

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

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

      \[\leadsto \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{\pi}{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}}\right) \]
    5. mult-flip-revN/A

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

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

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

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

      \[\leadsto \frac{\left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \cdot \frac{\pi}{2}}{\color{blue}{b \cdot b} - a \cdot a} \]
    10. difference-of-squaresN/A

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

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

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

      \[\leadsto \frac{\left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \cdot \frac{\pi}{2}}{\left(1 \cdot b - \color{blue}{a \cdot 1}\right) \cdot \left(b + a\right)} \]
    14. times-fracN/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}}{1 \cdot b - a \cdot 1} \cdot \frac{\frac{\pi}{2}}{b + a}} \]
    15. lower-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}}{1 \cdot b - a \cdot 1} \cdot \frac{\frac{\pi}{2}}{b + a}} \]
  3. Applied rewrites99.6%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{b - a}{a \cdot b}}{b - a} \cdot \frac{0.5 \cdot \pi}{a + b}} \]
  4. Applied rewrites99.7%

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

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

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

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

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

      \[\leadsto \frac{\pi}{\color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot \left(a \cdot b\right)\right) \cdot \left(a + b\right)}} \]
    6. lower-*.f6498.9%

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

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

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

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

      \[\leadsto \frac{\pi}{\color{blue}{\left(\left(2 \cdot a\right) \cdot b\right)} \cdot \left(a + b\right)} \]
    11. count-2-revN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\pi}{\left(\color{blue}{\left(a + a\right)} \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(a + b\right)} \]
    12. lower-+.f6498.9%

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

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

      \[\leadsto \frac{\pi}{\left(\left(a + a\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(b + a\right)}} \]
    15. lower-+.f6498.9%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\pi}{\left(\left(a + a\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(b + a\right)}} \]
  6. Applied rewrites98.9%

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

Alternative 3: 81.1% accurate, 0.1× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\mathsf{min}\left(a, b\right) \leq -1.3 \cdot 10^{-127}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-1.5707963267948966}{\mathsf{max}\left(a, b\right) \cdot \left(\left(\mathsf{min}\left(a, b\right) + \mathsf{max}\left(a, b\right)\right) \cdot \left(\mathsf{max}\left(a, b\right) - \mathsf{min}\left(a, b\right)\right)\right)}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{0.5}{\left(\mathsf{max}\left(a, b\right) \cdot \mathsf{max}\left(a, b\right)\right) \cdot \mathsf{min}\left(a, b\right)} \cdot \pi\\ \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b)
  :precision binary64
  (if (<= (fmin a b) -1.3e-127)
  (/
   -1.5707963267948966
   (*
    (fmax a b)
    (* (+ (fmin a b) (fmax a b)) (- (fmax a b) (fmin a b)))))
  (* (/ 0.5 (* (* (fmax a b) (fmax a b)) (fmin a b))) PI)))
double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (fmin(a, b) <= -1.3e-127) {
		tmp = -1.5707963267948966 / (fmax(a, b) * ((fmin(a, b) + fmax(a, b)) * (fmax(a, b) - fmin(a, b))));
	} else {
		tmp = (0.5 / ((fmax(a, b) * fmax(a, b)) * fmin(a, b))) * ((double) M_PI);
	}
	return tmp;
}
public static double code(double a, double b) {
	double tmp;
	if (fmin(a, b) <= -1.3e-127) {
		tmp = -1.5707963267948966 / (fmax(a, b) * ((fmin(a, b) + fmax(a, b)) * (fmax(a, b) - fmin(a, b))));
	} else {
		tmp = (0.5 / ((fmax(a, b) * fmax(a, b)) * fmin(a, b))) * Math.PI;
	}
	return tmp;
}
def code(a, b):
	tmp = 0
	if fmin(a, b) <= -1.3e-127:
		tmp = -1.5707963267948966 / (fmax(a, b) * ((fmin(a, b) + fmax(a, b)) * (fmax(a, b) - fmin(a, b))))
	else:
		tmp = (0.5 / ((fmax(a, b) * fmax(a, b)) * fmin(a, b))) * math.pi
	return tmp
function code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (fmin(a, b) <= -1.3e-127)
		tmp = Float64(-1.5707963267948966 / Float64(fmax(a, b) * Float64(Float64(fmin(a, b) + fmax(a, b)) * Float64(fmax(a, b) - fmin(a, b)))));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(0.5 / Float64(Float64(fmax(a, b) * fmax(a, b)) * fmin(a, b))) * pi);
	end
	return tmp
end
function tmp_2 = code(a, b)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (min(a, b) <= -1.3e-127)
		tmp = -1.5707963267948966 / (max(a, b) * ((min(a, b) + max(a, b)) * (max(a, b) - min(a, b))));
	else
		tmp = (0.5 / ((max(a, b) * max(a, b)) * min(a, b))) * pi;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end
code[a_, b_] := If[LessEqual[N[Min[a, b], $MachinePrecision], -1.3e-127], N[(-1.5707963267948966 / N[(N[Max[a, b], $MachinePrecision] * N[(N[(N[Min[a, b], $MachinePrecision] + N[Max[a, b], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * N[(N[Max[a, b], $MachinePrecision] - N[Min[a, b], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(0.5 / N[(N[(N[Max[a, b], $MachinePrecision] * N[Max[a, b], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * N[Min[a, b], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * Pi), $MachinePrecision]]
\begin{array}{l}
\mathbf{if}\;\mathsf{min}\left(a, b\right) \leq -1.3 \cdot 10^{-127}:\\
\;\;\;\;\frac{-1.5707963267948966}{\mathsf{max}\left(a, b\right) \cdot \left(\left(\mathsf{min}\left(a, b\right) + \mathsf{max}\left(a, b\right)\right) \cdot \left(\mathsf{max}\left(a, b\right) - \mathsf{min}\left(a, b\right)\right)\right)}\\

\mathbf{else}:\\
\;\;\;\;\frac{0.5}{\left(\mathsf{max}\left(a, b\right) \cdot \mathsf{max}\left(a, b\right)\right) \cdot \mathsf{min}\left(a, b\right)} \cdot \pi\\


\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Split input into 2 regimes
  2. if a < -1.3e-127

    1. Initial program 78.1%

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

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

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

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

        \[\leadsto \left(\frac{1}{a} - \color{blue}{\frac{1}{b}}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{\pi}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}\right) \]
      5. sub-to-fractionN/A

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

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

        \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{1}{a} \cdot b - 1}{b} \cdot \left(\frac{\pi}{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}}\right) \]
      8. mult-flip-revN/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{1}{a} \cdot b - 1}{b} \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{\pi}{2}}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}} \]
      9. frac-timesN/A

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

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(\frac{1}{a} \cdot b - 1\right) \cdot \frac{\pi}{2}}{b \cdot \left(b \cdot b - a \cdot a\right)}} \]
    3. Applied rewrites77.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(\frac{b}{a} - 1\right) \cdot \left(0.5 \cdot \pi\right)}{b \cdot \left(\left(a + b\right) \cdot \left(b - a\right)\right)}} \]
    4. Taylor expanded in a around inf

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

        \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{-1}{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\mathsf{PI}\left(\right)}}{b \cdot \left(\left(a + b\right) \cdot \left(b - a\right)\right)} \]
      2. lower-PI.f6464.0%

        \[\leadsto \frac{-0.5 \cdot \pi}{b \cdot \left(\left(a + b\right) \cdot \left(b - a\right)\right)} \]
    6. Applied rewrites64.0%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \pi}}{b \cdot \left(\left(a + b\right) \cdot \left(b - a\right)\right)} \]
    7. Evaluated real constant64.0%

      \[\leadsto \frac{-1.5707963267948966}{b \cdot \left(\left(a + b\right) \cdot \left(b - a\right)\right)} \]

    if -1.3e-127 < a

    1. Initial program 78.1%

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

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

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

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

        \[\leadsto \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{\pi}{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}}\right) \]
      5. mult-flip-revN/A

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

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

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

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

        \[\leadsto \frac{\left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \cdot \frac{\pi}{2}}{\color{blue}{b \cdot b} - a \cdot a} \]
      10. difference-of-squaresN/A

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

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

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

        \[\leadsto \frac{\left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \cdot \frac{\pi}{2}}{\left(1 \cdot b - \color{blue}{a \cdot 1}\right) \cdot \left(b + a\right)} \]
      14. times-fracN/A

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}}{1 \cdot b - a \cdot 1} \cdot \frac{\frac{\pi}{2}}{b + a}} \]
      15. lower-*.f64N/A

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}}{1 \cdot b - a \cdot 1} \cdot \frac{\frac{\pi}{2}}{b + a}} \]
    3. Applied rewrites99.6%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{b - a}{a \cdot b}}{b - a} \cdot \frac{0.5 \cdot \pi}{a + b}} \]
    4. Applied rewrites99.7%

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

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

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

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{\frac{\pi}{a + b}}{2}}{a \cdot b}} \]
      4. mult-flipN/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\pi}{a + b} \cdot \frac{1}{2}}}{a \cdot b} \]
      5. metadata-evalN/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\pi}{a + b} \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{1}{2}}}{a \cdot b} \]
      6. *-commutativeN/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{\pi}{a + b}}}{a \cdot b} \]
      7. lift-/.f64N/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{1}{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{\pi}{a + b}}}{a \cdot b} \]
      8. associate-/l*N/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{2} \cdot \pi}{a + b}}}{a \cdot b} \]
      9. lift-*.f64N/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{2} \cdot \pi}}{a + b}}{a \cdot b} \]
      10. mult-flipN/A

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

        \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\frac{1}{a + b}}{b}}{a} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \pi\right)} \]
    6. Applied rewrites93.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{0.5}{\left(\left(b + a\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot a} \cdot \pi} \]
    7. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{\left(\color{blue}{b} \cdot b\right) \cdot a} \cdot \pi \]
    8. Step-by-step derivation
      1. Applied rewrites57.2%

        \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{\left(\color{blue}{b} \cdot b\right) \cdot a} \cdot \pi \]
    9. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
    10. Add Preprocessing

    Alternative 4: 57.2% accurate, 0.2× speedup?

    \[\frac{0.5}{\left(\mathsf{max}\left(a, b\right) \cdot \mathsf{max}\left(a, b\right)\right) \cdot \mathsf{min}\left(a, b\right)} \cdot \pi \]
    (FPCore (a b)
      :precision binary64
      (* (/ 0.5 (* (* (fmax a b) (fmax a b)) (fmin a b))) PI))
    double code(double a, double b) {
    	return (0.5 / ((fmax(a, b) * fmax(a, b)) * fmin(a, b))) * ((double) M_PI);
    }
    
    public static double code(double a, double b) {
    	return (0.5 / ((fmax(a, b) * fmax(a, b)) * fmin(a, b))) * Math.PI;
    }
    
    def code(a, b):
    	return (0.5 / ((fmax(a, b) * fmax(a, b)) * fmin(a, b))) * math.pi
    
    function code(a, b)
    	return Float64(Float64(0.5 / Float64(Float64(fmax(a, b) * fmax(a, b)) * fmin(a, b))) * pi)
    end
    
    function tmp = code(a, b)
    	tmp = (0.5 / ((max(a, b) * max(a, b)) * min(a, b))) * pi;
    end
    
    code[a_, b_] := N[(N[(0.5 / N[(N[(N[Max[a, b], $MachinePrecision] * N[Max[a, b], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * N[Min[a, b], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * Pi), $MachinePrecision]
    
    \frac{0.5}{\left(\mathsf{max}\left(a, b\right) \cdot \mathsf{max}\left(a, b\right)\right) \cdot \mathsf{min}\left(a, b\right)} \cdot \pi
    
    Derivation
    1. Initial program 78.1%

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

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

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

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

        \[\leadsto \left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{\pi}{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{1}{b \cdot b - a \cdot a}}\right) \]
      5. mult-flip-revN/A

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

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

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

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

        \[\leadsto \frac{\left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \cdot \frac{\pi}{2}}{\color{blue}{b \cdot b} - a \cdot a} \]
      10. difference-of-squaresN/A

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

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

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

        \[\leadsto \frac{\left(\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \cdot \frac{\pi}{2}}{\left(1 \cdot b - \color{blue}{a \cdot 1}\right) \cdot \left(b + a\right)} \]
      14. times-fracN/A

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}}{1 \cdot b - a \cdot 1} \cdot \frac{\frac{\pi}{2}}{b + a}} \]
      15. lower-*.f64N/A

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{a} - \frac{1}{b}}{1 \cdot b - a \cdot 1} \cdot \frac{\frac{\pi}{2}}{b + a}} \]
    3. Applied rewrites99.6%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{b - a}{a \cdot b}}{b - a} \cdot \frac{0.5 \cdot \pi}{a + b}} \]
    4. Applied rewrites99.7%

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

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

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

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{\frac{\pi}{a + b}}{2}}{a \cdot b}} \]
      4. mult-flipN/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\pi}{a + b} \cdot \frac{1}{2}}}{a \cdot b} \]
      5. metadata-evalN/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\pi}{a + b} \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{1}{2}}}{a \cdot b} \]
      6. *-commutativeN/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{\pi}{a + b}}}{a \cdot b} \]
      7. lift-/.f64N/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{1}{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{\pi}{a + b}}}{a \cdot b} \]
      8. associate-/l*N/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{2} \cdot \pi}{a + b}}}{a \cdot b} \]
      9. lift-*.f64N/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{2} \cdot \pi}}{a + b}}{a \cdot b} \]
      10. mult-flipN/A

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

        \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\frac{1}{a + b}}{b}}{a} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \pi\right)} \]
    6. Applied rewrites93.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{0.5}{\left(\left(b + a\right) \cdot b\right) \cdot a} \cdot \pi} \]
    7. Taylor expanded in a around 0

      \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{\left(\color{blue}{b} \cdot b\right) \cdot a} \cdot \pi \]
    8. Step-by-step derivation
      1. Applied rewrites57.2%

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

      Reproduce

      ?
      herbie shell --seed 2025258 
      (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))))