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Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -3.6717571299242915e+130

   1. Initial program 54.0

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

   2. Initial simplification54.0

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

   3. Taylor expanded around -inf 3.0

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}}\]

   if -3.6717571299242915e+130 < b < 0.004516097630920454

   1. Initial program 14.8

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

   2. Initial simplification14.8

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

   3. Taylor expanded around -inf 14.8

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

   if 0.004516097630920454 < b

   1. Initial program 55.1

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

   2. Initial simplification55.1

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

   3. Taylor expanded around inf 6.3

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \frac{c}{b}}\]

   4. Simplified6.3

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-c}{b}}\]
3. Recombined 3 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification10.5

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \le -3.6717571299242915 \cdot 10^{+130}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \le 0.004516097630920454:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{{b}^{2} - \left(c \cdot a\right) \cdot 4} - b}{a \cdot 2}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-\frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array}\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2018362 
(FPCore (a b c)
  :name "The quadratic formula (r1)"

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

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

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