Average Error: 44.0 → 0.2
Time: 6.9s
Precision: 64
\[1.11022 \cdot 10^{-16} \lt a \lt 9.0072 \cdot 10^{15} \land 1.11022 \cdot 10^{-16} \lt b \lt 9.0072 \cdot 10^{15} \land 1.11022 \cdot 10^{-16} \lt c \lt 9.0072 \cdot 10^{15}\]
\[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a}\]
↓
\[\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{\frac{4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}{a}}{-\left(b + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}\right)}\]
\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a}
↓
\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{\frac{4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}{a}}{-\left(b + \sqrt{b \cdot 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 ((1.0 / 2.0) * (((4.0 * (a * c)) / a) / -(b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c))))));
}

Error

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Bits error versus b

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Derivation

  1. Initial program 44.0

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

  3. Applied flip-+44.0

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

  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 add-cbrt-cube0.5

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

  7. Simplified0.4

    \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{0 + 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\sqrt[3]{\color{blue}{{\left(b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c\right)}^{3}}}}}}{2 \cdot a}\]
  8. Using strategy rm

  9. Applied *-un-lft-identity0.4

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

  10. Applied *-un-lft-identity0.4

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

  11. Applied times-frac0.4

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

  12. Applied times-frac0.4

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

  13. Simplified0.4

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

  14. Simplified0.2

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

  15. Final simplification0.2

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020103 
(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)))