Average Error: 28.4 → 0.3
Time: 7.9s
Precision: 64
\[1.053671212772350866701172186984739043147 \cdot 10^{-8} \lt a \lt 94906265.62425155937671661376953125 \land 1.053671212772350866701172186984739043147 \cdot 10^{-8} \lt b \lt 94906265.62425155937671661376953125 \land 1.053671212772350866701172186984739043147 \cdot 10^{-8} \lt c \lt 94906265.62425155937671661376953125\]
\[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a}\]
↓
\[\frac{2 \cdot c}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}\]
\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a}
↓
\frac{2 \cdot c}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}
double f(double a, double b, double c) {
        double r43458 = b;
        double r43459 = -r43458;
        double r43460 = r43458 * r43458;
        double r43461 = 4.0;
        double r43462 = a;
        double r43463 = r43461 * r43462;
        double r43464 = c;
        double r43465 = r43463 * r43464;
        double r43466 = r43460 - r43465;
        double r43467 = sqrt(r43466);
        double r43468 = r43459 + r43467;
        double r43469 = 2.0;
        double r43470 = r43469 * r43462;
        double r43471 = r43468 / r43470;
        return r43471;
}
↓
double f(double a, double b, double c) {
        double r43472 = 2.0;
        double r43473 = c;
        double r43474 = r43472 * r43473;
        double r43475 = b;
        double r43476 = -r43475;
        double r43477 = r43475 * r43475;
        double r43478 = 4.0;
        double r43479 = a;
        double r43480 = r43478 * r43479;
        double r43481 = r43480 * r43473;
        double r43482 = r43477 - r43481;
        double r43483 = sqrt(r43482);
        double r43484 = r43476 - r43483;
        double r43485 = r43474 / r43484;
        return r43485;
}

Error

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Bits error versus b

Bits error versus c

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Derivation

  1. Initial program 28.4

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

  3. Applied flip-+28.4

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

  4. Simplified0.5

    \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\color{blue}{0 + 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}}{2 \cdot a}\]
  5. Using strategy rm

  6. Applied div-inv0.5

    \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left(0 + 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)\right) \cdot \frac{1}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}}}{2 \cdot a}\]

  7. Applied associate-/l*0.5

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{0 + 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}{\frac{2 \cdot a}{\frac{1}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}}}}\]

  8. Simplified0.5

    \[\leadsto \frac{0 + 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}{\color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}\right)}}\]
  9. Using strategy rm

  10. Applied associate-/r*0.3

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

  11. Simplified0.3

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

  12. Taylor expanded around 0 0.3

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

  13. Final simplification0.3

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2019322 
(FPCore (a b c)
  :name "Quadratic roots, narrow range"
  :precision binary64
  :pre (and (< 1.05367121277235087e-8 a 94906265.6242515594) (< 1.05367121277235087e-8 b 94906265.6242515594) (< 1.05367121277235087e-8 c 94906265.6242515594))
  (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 4 a) c)))) (* 2 a)))