Average Error: 28.4 → 0.3
Time: 6.3s
Precision: 64
\[1.05367121277235087 \cdot 10^{-8} \lt a \lt 94906265.6242515594 \land 1.05367121277235087 \cdot 10^{-8} \lt b \lt 94906265.6242515594 \land 1.05367121277235087 \cdot 10^{-8} \lt c \lt 94906265.6242515594\]
\[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a}\]
↓
\[\frac{\frac{\frac{4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}{2}}{a}}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}\]
\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a}
↓
\frac{\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}}
double f(double a, double b, double c) {
        double r40098 = b;
        double r40099 = -r40098;
        double r40100 = r40098 * r40098;
        double r40101 = 4.0;
        double r40102 = a;
        double r40103 = r40101 * r40102;
        double r40104 = c;
        double r40105 = r40103 * r40104;
        double r40106 = r40100 - r40105;
        double r40107 = sqrt(r40106);
        double r40108 = r40099 + r40107;
        double r40109 = 2.0;
        double r40110 = r40109 * r40102;
        double r40111 = r40108 / r40110;
        return r40111;
}
↓
double f(double a, double b, double c) {
        double r40112 = 4.0;
        double r40113 = a;
        double r40114 = c;
        double r40115 = r40113 * r40114;
        double r40116 = r40112 * r40115;
        double r40117 = 2.0;
        double r40118 = r40116 / r40117;
        double r40119 = r40118 / r40113;
        double r40120 = b;
        double r40121 = -r40120;
        double r40122 = r40120 * r40120;
        double r40123 = r40112 * r40113;
        double r40124 = r40123 * r40114;
        double r40125 = r40122 - r40124;
        double r40126 = sqrt(r40125);
        double r40127 = r40121 - r40126;
        double r40128 = r40119 / r40127;
        return r40128;
}

Error

Bits error versus a

Bits error versus b

Bits error versus c

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Results

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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-+28.5

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

  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. Simplified0.4

    \[\leadsto \frac{0 + 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}{\color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}\right)}}\]
  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. Final simplification0.3

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020056 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (a b c)
  :name "Quadratic roots, narrow range"
  :precision binary64
  :pre (and (< 1.0536712127723509e-08 a 94906265.62425156) (< 1.0536712127723509e-08 b 94906265.62425156) (< 1.0536712127723509e-08 c 94906265.62425156))
  (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 4 a) c)))) (* 2 a)))