Average Error: 43.6 → 0.4
Time: 4.7s
Precision: 64
\[1.11022 \cdot 10^{-16} \lt a \lt 9.0072 \cdot 10^{15} \land 1.11022 \cdot 10^{-16} \lt b \lt 9.0072 \cdot 10^{15} \land 1.11022 \cdot 10^{-16} \lt c \lt 9.0072 \cdot 10^{15}\]
\[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a}\]
↓
\[\frac{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(4 \cdot c, a, 0\right)}{a}}{2 \cdot \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\frac{{\left(b \cdot b\right)}^{3} - {\left(\left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c\right)}^{3}}{\mathsf{fma}\left(4 \cdot a, c \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c\right), {b}^{4}\right)}}}{1}}\]
\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a}
↓
\frac{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(4 \cdot c, a, 0\right)}{a}}{2 \cdot \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\frac{{\left(b \cdot b\right)}^{3} - {\left(\left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c\right)}^{3}}{\mathsf{fma}\left(4 \cdot a, c \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c\right), {b}^{4}\right)}}}{1}}
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 ((fma((4.0 * c), a, 0.0) / a) / (2.0 * ((-b - sqrt(((pow((b * b), 3.0) - pow(((4.0 * a) * c), 3.0)) / fma((4.0 * a), (c * fma(b, b, ((4.0 * a) * c))), pow(b, 4.0))))) / 1.0)));
}

Error

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Bits error versus b

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Results

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Derivation

  1. Initial program 43.6

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

  3. Applied flip-+43.6

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

  4. Simplified0.4

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

  6. Applied *-commutative0.4

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

  7. Applied div-inv0.5

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

  8. Applied times-frac0.4

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(4 \cdot c, a, 0\right)}{a} \cdot \frac{\frac{1}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}}{2}}\]
  9. Using strategy rm

  10. Applied clear-num0.4

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

  11. Applied associate-/l/0.4

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

  12. Applied un-div-inv0.2

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(4 \cdot c, a, 0\right)}{a}}{2 \cdot \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{1}}}\]
  13. Using strategy rm

  14. Applied flip3--0.3

    \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(4 \cdot c, a, 0\right)}{a}}{2 \cdot \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{\frac{{\left(b \cdot b\right)}^{3} - {\left(\left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c\right)}^{3}}{\left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right) + \left(\left(\left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c\right) \cdot \left(\left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(\left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c\right)\right)}}}}{1}}\]

  15. Simplified0.4

    \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(4 \cdot c, a, 0\right)}{a}}{2 \cdot \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\frac{{\left(b \cdot b\right)}^{3} - {\left(\left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c\right)}^{3}}{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(4 \cdot a, c \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c\right), {b}^{4}\right)}}}}{1}}\]

  16. Final simplification0.4

    \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(4 \cdot c, a, 0\right)}{a}}{2 \cdot \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\frac{{\left(b \cdot b\right)}^{3} - {\left(\left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c\right)}^{3}}{\mathsf{fma}\left(4 \cdot a, c \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c\right), {b}^{4}\right)}}}{1}}\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020071 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (a b c)
  :name "Quadratic roots, medium range"
  :precision binary64
  :pre (and (< 1.11022e-16 a 9.0072e+15) (< 1.11022e-16 b 9.0072e+15) (< 1.11022e-16 c 9.0072e+15))
  (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 4 a) c)))) (* 2 a)))