Average Error: 28.6 → 0.5
Time: 6.6s
Precision: 64
\[1.05367121277235087 \cdot 10^{-8} \lt a \lt 94906265.6242515594 \land 1.05367121277235087 \cdot 10^{-8} \lt b \lt 94906265.6242515594 \land 1.05367121277235087 \cdot 10^{-8} \lt c \lt 94906265.6242515594\]
\[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{3 \cdot a}\]
↓
\[\frac{\left({b}^{2} - {b}^{2}\right) + \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}} \cdot \frac{1}{3 \cdot a}\]
\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{3 \cdot a}
↓
\frac{\left({b}^{2} - {b}^{2}\right) + \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}} \cdot \frac{1}{3 \cdot a}
double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return ((-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c)))) / (3.0 * a));
}
↓
double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return ((((pow(b, 2.0) - pow(b, 2.0)) + ((3.0 * a) * c)) / (-b - sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c))))) * (1.0 / (3.0 * a)));
}

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 28.6

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

  3. Applied flip-+28.6

    \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} \cdot \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}}}{3 \cdot a}\]

  4. Simplified0.6

    \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\color{blue}{\left({b}^{2} - {b}^{2}\right) + 3 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}}{3 \cdot a}\]
  5. Using strategy rm

  6. Applied associate-*r*0.5

    \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\left({b}^{2} - {b}^{2}\right) + \color{blue}{\left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}}{3 \cdot a}\]
  7. Using strategy rm

  8. Applied div-inv0.5

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left({b}^{2} - {b}^{2}\right) + \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}} \cdot \frac{1}{3 \cdot a}}\]

  9. Final simplification0.5

    \[\leadsto \frac{\left({b}^{2} - {b}^{2}\right) + \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}} \cdot \frac{1}{3 \cdot a}\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020057 
(FPCore (a b c)
  :name "Cubic critical, 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) (* (* 3 a) c)))) (* 3 a)))