Average Error: 44.3 → 0.2
Time: 6.5s
Precision: 64
\[1.11022 \cdot 10^{-16} \lt a \lt 9.0072 \cdot 10^{15} \land 1.11022 \cdot 10^{-16} \lt b \lt 9.0072 \cdot 10^{15} \land 1.11022 \cdot 10^{-16} \lt c \lt 9.0072 \cdot 10^{15}\]
\[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a}\]
↓
\[\frac{\frac{4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}{2 \cdot a}}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -\left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c\right)}}\]
\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a}
↓
\frac{\frac{4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}{2 \cdot a}}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -\left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c\right)}}
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 (((4.0 * (a * c)) / (2.0 * a)) / (-b - sqrt(fma(b, b, -((4.0 * a) * c)))));
}

Error

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Derivation

  1. Initial program 44.3

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

  3. Applied flip-+44.3

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

  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

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

  8. Applied associate-*l/0.4

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

  9. Simplified0.2

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

  11. Applied fma-neg0.2

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

  12. Final simplification0.2

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020102 +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)))