Cubic critical, wide range

Average Error: 52.1 → 6.5

Time: 4.0s

Precision: 64

\[4.93038 \cdot 10^{-32} \lt a \lt 2.02824 \cdot 10^{31} \land 4.93038 \cdot 10^{-32} \lt b \lt 2.02824 \cdot 10^{31} \land 4.93038 \cdot 10^{-32} \lt c \lt 2.02824 \cdot 10^{31}\]

Math

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

↓

\[-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\]

C

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 (-0.5 * (c / b));
}

Error

Bits error versus a

Bits error versus b

Bits error versus c

Derivation

1. Initial program 52.1

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

2. Taylor expanded around inf 6.5

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}}\]

3. Final simplification 6.5

   \[\leadsto -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020091 +o rules:numerics
(FPCore (a b c)
  :name "Cubic critical, wide range"
  :precision binary64
  :pre (and (< 4.9303800000000003e-32 a 2.02824e+31) (< 4.9303800000000003e-32 b 2.02824e+31) (< 4.9303800000000003e-32 c 2.02824e+31))
  (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 3 a) c)))) (* 3 a)))