Average Error: 32.9 → 10.3
Time: 16.2s
Precision: 64
\[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a}\]
↓
\[\begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \le -9.088000531423294 \cdot 10^{+152}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \le 9.354082991670835 \cdot 10^{-125}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot -4, c, b \cdot b\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{1}{2}}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \end{array}\]
\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a}
↓
\begin{array}{l}
\mathbf{if}\;b \le -9.088000531423294 \cdot 10^{+152}:\\
\;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\

\mathbf{elif}\;b \le 9.354082991670835 \cdot 10^{-125}:\\
\;\;\;\;\frac{\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot -4, c, b \cdot b\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{1}{2}}{a}\\

\mathbf{else}:\\
\;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\

\end{array}
double f(double a, double b, double c) {
        double r910580 = b;
        double r910581 = -r910580;
        double r910582 = r910580 * r910580;
        double r910583 = 4.0;
        double r910584 = a;
        double r910585 = r910583 * r910584;
        double r910586 = c;
        double r910587 = r910585 * r910586;
        double r910588 = r910582 - r910587;
        double r910589 = sqrt(r910588);
        double r910590 = r910581 + r910589;
        double r910591 = 2.0;
        double r910592 = r910591 * r910584;
        double r910593 = r910590 / r910592;
        return r910593;
}
↓
double f(double a, double b, double c) {
        double r910594 = b;
        double r910595 = -9.088000531423294e+152;
        bool r910596 = r910594 <= r910595;
        double r910597 = c;
        double r910598 = r910597 / r910594;
        double r910599 = a;
        double r910600 = r910594 / r910599;
        double r910601 = r910598 - r910600;
        double r910602 = 9.354082991670835e-125;
        bool r910603 = r910594 <= r910602;
        double r910604 = -4.0;
        double r910605 = r910599 * r910604;
        double r910606 = r910594 * r910594;
        double r910607 = fma(r910605, r910597, r910606);
        double r910608 = sqrt(r910607);
        double r910609 = r910608 - r910594;
        double r910610 = 0.5;
        double r910611 = r910609 * r910610;
        double r910612 = r910611 / r910599;
        double r910613 = -r910597;
        double r910614 = r910613 / r910594;
        double r910615 = r910603 ? r910612 : r910614;
        double r910616 = r910596 ? r910601 : r910615;
        return r910616;
}

Error

Bits error versus a

Bits error versus b

Bits error versus c

Derivation

  1. Split input into 3 regimes

  2. if b < -9.088000531423294e+152

    1. Initial program 60.4

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

    2. Simplified60.4

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

    3. Taylor expanded around -inf 1.5

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

    if -9.088000531423294e+152 < b < 9.354082991670835e-125

    1. Initial program 10.9

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

    2. Simplified10.9

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \left(a \cdot -4\right) \cdot c\right)} - b}{a}}{2}}\]
    3. Using strategy rm

    4. Applied *-un-lft-identity10.9

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

    5. Applied div-inv11.1

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

    6. Applied times-frac11.1

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

    7. Simplified11.1

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

    8. Simplified11.1

      \[\leadsto \left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(-4 \cdot a, c, b \cdot b\right)} - b\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{a}}\]
    9. Using strategy rm

    10. Applied associate-*r/10.9

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

    if 9.354082991670835e-125 < b

    1. Initial program 49.8

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

    2. Simplified49.8

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

    3. Taylor expanded around inf 11.9

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

    4. Simplified11.9

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

  4. Final simplification10.3

    \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \le -9.088000531423294 \cdot 10^{+152}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \le 9.354082991670835 \cdot 10^{-125}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot -4, c, b \cdot b\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{1}{2}}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \end{array}\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2019153 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (a b c)
  :name "Quadratic roots, full range"
  (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 4 a) c)))) (* 2 a)))