Average Error: 28.4 → 0.3
Time: 5.8s
Precision: 64
\[1.05367121277235087 \cdot 10^{-8} \lt a \lt 94906265.6242515594 \land 1.05367121277235087 \cdot 10^{-8} \lt b \lt 94906265.6242515594 \land 1.05367121277235087 \cdot 10^{-8} \lt c \lt 94906265.6242515594\]
\[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a}\]
↓
\[\frac{2 \cdot c}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}\]
\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 code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return ((-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c)))) / (2.0 * a));
}
↓
double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return ((2.0 * c) / (-b - sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c)))));
}

Error

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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. Simplified0.4

    \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\color{blue}{0 + 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}}{2 \cdot a}\]
  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. 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 2020057 
(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)))