Average Error: 44.1 → 0.5
Time: 5.0s
Precision: 64
\[1.11022 \cdot 10^{-16} \lt a \lt 9.0072 \cdot 10^{15} \land 1.11022 \cdot 10^{-16} \lt b \lt 9.0072 \cdot 10^{15} \land 1.11022 \cdot 10^{-16} \lt c \lt 9.0072 \cdot 10^{15}\]
\[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{3 \cdot a}\]
↓
\[\frac{\frac{3 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}{3}}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}} \cdot \frac{1}{a}\]
\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{3 \cdot a}
↓
\frac{\frac{3 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}{3}}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}} \cdot \frac{1}{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 ((((3.0 * (a * c)) / 3.0) / (-b - sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c))))) * (1.0 / a));
}

Error

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Results

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Derivation

  1. Initial program 44.1

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

  3. Applied flip-+44.1

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

  4. Simplified0.5

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

  6. Applied div-inv0.6

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

  7. Applied times-frac0.5

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

  8. Simplified0.5

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{3 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}{3}} \cdot \frac{\frac{1}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}}{a}\]
  9. Using strategy rm

  10. Applied div-inv0.6

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

  11. Applied associate-*r*0.6

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

  12. Simplified0.5

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

  13. Final simplification0.5

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020079 
(FPCore (a b c)
  :name "Cubic critical, 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) (* (* 3 a) c)))) (* 3 a)))