Average Error: 52.6 → 6.2
Time: 6.7s
Precision: 64
\[4.93038 \cdot 10^{-32} \lt a \lt 2.02824 \cdot 10^{31} \land 4.93038 \cdot 10^{-32} \lt b \lt 2.02824 \cdot 10^{31} \land 4.93038 \cdot 10^{-32} \lt c \lt 2.02824 \cdot 10^{31}\]
\[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{3 \cdot a}\]
\[-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\]
\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{3 \cdot a}
-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}
double f(double a, double b, double c) {
        double r54046 = b;
        double r54047 = -r54046;
        double r54048 = r54046 * r54046;
        double r54049 = 3.0;
        double r54050 = a;
        double r54051 = r54049 * r54050;
        double r54052 = c;
        double r54053 = r54051 * r54052;
        double r54054 = r54048 - r54053;
        double r54055 = sqrt(r54054);
        double r54056 = r54047 + r54055;
        double r54057 = r54056 / r54051;
        return r54057;
}

double f(double __attribute__((unused)) a, double b, double c) {
        double r54058 = -0.5;
        double r54059 = c;
        double r54060 = b;
        double r54061 = r54059 / r54060;
        double r54062 = r54058 * r54061;
        return r54062;
}

Error

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Bits error versus b

Bits error versus c

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Derivation

  1. Initial program 52.6

    \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{3 \cdot a}\]
  2. Simplified52.6

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b}{3 \cdot a}}\]
  3. Taylor expanded around inf 6.2

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}}\]
  4. Final simplification6.2

    \[\leadsto -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020042 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (a b c)
  :name "Cubic critical, wide range"
  :precision binary64
  :pre (and (< 4.9303800000000003e-32 a 2.02824e+31) (< 4.9303800000000003e-32 b 2.02824e+31) (< 4.9303800000000003e-32 c 2.02824e+31))
  (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 3 a) c)))) (* 3 a)))