Average Error: 28.3 → 0.4
Time: 5.7s
Precision: 64
\[1.05367121277235087 \cdot 10^{-8} \lt a \lt 94906265.6242515594 \land 1.05367121277235087 \cdot 10^{-8} \lt b \lt 94906265.6242515594 \land 1.05367121277235087 \cdot 10^{-8} \lt c \lt 94906265.6242515594\]
\[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a}\]
↓
\[\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{\frac{4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}{a}}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\frac{{\left(b \cdot b\right)}^{3} - {\left(\left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c\right)}^{3}}{\left(\left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c\right) \cdot \left(\left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c + {b}^{2}\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right)}}}\]
\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\right) - \sqrt{\frac{{\left(b \cdot b\right)}^{3} - {\left(\left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c\right)}^{3}}{\left(\left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c\right) \cdot \left(\left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c + {b}^{2}\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(b \cdot b\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(((pow((b * b), 3.0) - pow(((4.0 * a) * c), 3.0)) / ((((4.0 * a) * c) * (((4.0 * a) * c) + pow(b, 2.0))) + ((b * b) * (b * b))))))));
}

Error

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Bits error versus b

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Results

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Derivation

  1. Initial program 28.3

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

  3. Applied flip-+28.3

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

  4. Simplified0.5

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

  6. Applied *-un-lft-identity0.5

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

  7. Applied *-un-lft-identity0.5

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

  8. Applied times-frac0.5

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

  9. Applied times-frac0.5

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

  10. Simplified0.5

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

  11. Simplified0.4

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

  13. Applied associate-/r*0.3

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

  15. Applied flip3--0.4

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

  16. Simplified0.4

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

  17. Final simplification0.4

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020105 
(FPCore (a b c)
  :name "Quadratic roots, narrow range"
  :precision binary64
  :pre (and (< 1.0536712127723509e-08 a 94906265.62425156) (< 1.0536712127723509e-08 b 94906265.62425156) (< 1.0536712127723509e-08 c 94906265.62425156))
  (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 4 a) c)))) (* 2 a)))