Average Error: 34.3 → 6.5
Time: 8.1s
Precision: 64
\[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a}\]
↓
\[\begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \le -7.6038168240882645 \cdot 10^{144}:\\ \;\;\;\;1 \cdot \left(\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\right)\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \le -3.2731438419880699 \cdot 10^{-203}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}} \cdot \sqrt{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}}{2 \cdot a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \le 2.1125387673008883 \cdot 10^{122}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\frac{\frac{1}{\frac{2}{4}}}{\frac{1}{c}}}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-1 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array}\]
\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 -7.6038168240882645 \cdot 10^{144}:\\
\;\;\;\;1 \cdot \left(\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\right)\\

\mathbf{elif}\;b \le -3.2731438419880699 \cdot 10^{-203}:\\
\;\;\;\;\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}} \cdot \sqrt{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}}{2 \cdot a}\\

\mathbf{elif}\;b \le 2.1125387673008883 \cdot 10^{122}:\\
\;\;\;\;\frac{\frac{\frac{1}{\frac{2}{4}}}{\frac{1}{c}}}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}\\

\mathbf{else}:\\
\;\;\;\;-1 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\

\end{array}
double f(double a, double b, double c) {
        double r190392 = b;
        double r190393 = -r190392;
        double r190394 = r190392 * r190392;
        double r190395 = 4.0;
        double r190396 = a;
        double r190397 = r190395 * r190396;
        double r190398 = c;
        double r190399 = r190397 * r190398;
        double r190400 = r190394 - r190399;
        double r190401 = sqrt(r190400);
        double r190402 = r190393 + r190401;
        double r190403 = 2.0;
        double r190404 = r190403 * r190396;
        double r190405 = r190402 / r190404;
        return r190405;
}
↓
double f(double a, double b, double c) {
        double r190406 = b;
        double r190407 = -7.603816824088264e+144;
        bool r190408 = r190406 <= r190407;
        double r190409 = 1.0;
        double r190410 = c;
        double r190411 = r190410 / r190406;
        double r190412 = a;
        double r190413 = r190406 / r190412;
        double r190414 = r190411 - r190413;
        double r190415 = r190409 * r190414;
        double r190416 = -3.27314384198807e-203;
        bool r190417 = r190406 <= r190416;
        double r190418 = -r190406;
        double r190419 = r190406 * r190406;
        double r190420 = 4.0;
        double r190421 = r190420 * r190412;
        double r190422 = r190421 * r190410;
        double r190423 = r190419 - r190422;
        double r190424 = sqrt(r190423);
        double r190425 = sqrt(r190424);
        double r190426 = r190425 * r190425;
        double r190427 = r190418 + r190426;
        double r190428 = 2.0;
        double r190429 = r190428 * r190412;
        double r190430 = r190427 / r190429;
        double r190431 = 2.1125387673008883e+122;
        bool r190432 = r190406 <= r190431;
        double r190433 = 1.0;
        double r190434 = r190428 / r190420;
        double r190435 = r190433 / r190434;
        double r190436 = r190433 / r190410;
        double r190437 = r190435 / r190436;
        double r190438 = r190418 - r190424;
        double r190439 = r190437 / r190438;
        double r190440 = -1.0;
        double r190441 = r190440 * r190411;
        double r190442 = r190432 ? r190439 : r190441;
        double r190443 = r190417 ? r190430 : r190442;
        double r190444 = r190408 ? r190415 : r190443;
        return r190444;
}

Error

Bits error versus a

Bits error versus b

Bits error versus c

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Results

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Target

Original34.3
Target21.2
Herbie6.5
\[\begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \lt 0.0:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{a \cdot \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a}}\\ \end{array}\]

Derivation

  1. Split input into 4 regimes

  2. if b < -7.603816824088264e+144

    1. Initial program 61.2

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

    2. Taylor expanded around -inf 2.8

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

    3. Simplified2.8

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

    if -7.603816824088264e+144 < b < -3.27314384198807e-203

    1. Initial program 7.1

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

    3. Applied add-sqr-sqrt7.1

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

    4. Applied sqrt-prod7.4

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

    if -3.27314384198807e-203 < b < 2.1125387673008883e+122

    1. Initial program 29.8

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

    3. Applied flip-+29.9

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

    4. Simplified16.2

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

    6. Applied *-un-lft-identity16.2

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

    7. Applied *-un-lft-identity16.2

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

    8. Applied times-frac16.2

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

    9. Applied associate-/l*16.3

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

    10. Simplified15.5

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

    12. Applied associate-/r*15.3

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

    13. Simplified9.5

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

    if 2.1125387673008883e+122 < b

    1. Initial program 61.1

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

    2. Taylor expanded around inf 2.1

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \frac{c}{b}}\]
  3. Recombined 4 regimes into one program.

  4. Final simplification6.5

    \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \le -7.6038168240882645 \cdot 10^{144}:\\ \;\;\;\;1 \cdot \left(\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\right)\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \le -3.2731438419880699 \cdot 10^{-203}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}} \cdot \sqrt{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}}{2 \cdot a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \le 2.1125387673008883 \cdot 10^{122}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\frac{\frac{1}{\frac{2}{4}}}{\frac{1}{c}}}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-1 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array}\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020036 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (a b c)
  :name "The quadratic formula (r1)"
  :precision binary64

  :herbie-target
  (if (< b 0.0) (/ (+ (- 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)))