Average Error: 34.7 → 5.0
Time: 23.0s
Precision: 64
Internal precision: 2944
\[\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{{b}^2 - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a}\]
\[\begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \le -8.631899346984487 \cdot 10^{+78}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\left(-b\right) + b}{a + a} - \frac{c}{b}\\ \mathbf{if}\;b \le 1.3922050433292359 \cdot 10^{-304}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{c \cdot 4}{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(c \cdot 4\right) \cdot a} + \left(-b\right)}\\ \mathbf{if}\;b \le 3.713630071503827 \cdot 10^{+83}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{{b}^2 - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}\right) \cdot \frac{1}{2 \cdot a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \end{array}\]

Error

Bits error versus a

Bits error versus b

Bits error versus c

Target

Original34.7
Comparison22.0
Herbie5.0
\[ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \lt 0:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{a \cdot \frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{{b}^2 - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a}}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{{b}^2 - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a}\\ \end{array} \]

Derivation

  1. Split input into 4 regimes.
  2. if b < -8.631899346984487e+78

    1. Initial program 58.5

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{{b}^2 - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a}\]
    2. Applied taylor 40.3

      \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \left(2 \cdot \frac{c \cdot a}{b} - b\right)}{2 \cdot a}\]
    3. Taylor expanded around -inf 40.3

      \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot \frac{c \cdot a}{b} - b\right)}}{2 \cdot a}\]
    4. Applied simplify 0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(-b\right) + b}{a + a} - \frac{\frac{c}{b}}{1}}\]
    5. Applied simplify 0

      \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) + b}{a + a} - \color{blue}{\frac{c}{b}}\]

    if -8.631899346984487e+78 < b < 1.3922050433292359e-304

    1. Initial program 30.9

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{{b}^2 - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a}\]
    2. Using strategy rm
    3. Applied flip-- 31.0

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{{\left(-b\right)}^2 - {\left(\sqrt{{b}^2 - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}\right)}^2}{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{{b}^2 - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}}}{2 \cdot a}\]
    4. Applied simplify 16.5

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\color{blue}{a \cdot \left(4 \cdot c\right)}}{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{{b}^2 - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}}{2 \cdot a}\]
    5. Using strategy rm
    6. Applied *-un-lft-identity 16.5

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{1 \cdot \frac{a \cdot \left(4 \cdot c\right)}{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{{b}^2 - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}}}{2 \cdot a}\]
    7. Applied times-frac 16.4

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{\frac{a \cdot \left(4 \cdot c\right)}{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{{b}^2 - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}}{a}}\]
    8. Applied simplify 8.9

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

    if 1.3922050433292359e-304 < b < 3.713630071503827e+83

    1. Initial program 9.1

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{{b}^2 - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a}\]
    2. Using strategy rm
    3. Applied div-inv 9.3

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

    if 3.713630071503827e+83 < b

    1. Initial program 44.3

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{{b}^2 - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a}\]
    2. Applied taylor 11.0

      \[\leadsto \frac{2 \cdot \frac{c \cdot a}{b} - 2 \cdot b}{2 \cdot a}\]
    3. Taylor expanded around inf 11.0

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{2 \cdot \frac{c \cdot a}{b} - 2 \cdot b}}{2 \cdot a}\]
    4. Applied simplify 0.0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{c}{b}}{1} - \frac{b}{a}}\]
    5. Applied simplify 0.0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{c}{b}} - \frac{b}{a}\]
  3. Recombined 4 regimes into one program.
  4. Removed slow pow expressions

Runtime

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herbie shell --seed '#(1064875752 1442698706 3150723005 1316518582 2592983078 3835530843)'
(FPCore (a b c)
  :name "quadm (p42, negative)"

  :target
  (if (< b 0) (/ c (* a (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (sqr b) (* 4 (* a c))))) (* 2 a)))) (/ (- (- b) (sqrt (- (sqr b) (* 4 (* a c))))) (* 2 a)))

  (/ (- (- b) (sqrt (- (sqr b) (* 4 (* a c))))) (* 2 a)))