Average Error: 52.6 → 0.6
Time: 9.0s
Precision: 64
\[4.93038 \cdot 10^{-32} \lt a \lt 2.02824 \cdot 10^{31} \land 4.93038 \cdot 10^{-32} \lt b \lt 2.02824 \cdot 10^{31} \land 4.93038 \cdot 10^{-32} \lt c \lt 2.02824 \cdot 10^{31}\]
\[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{3 \cdot a}\]
↓
\[\frac{1}{3} \cdot \frac{\frac{\left({b}^{2} - {b}^{2}\right) + 3 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}}{a}\]
\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{3 \cdot a}
↓
\frac{1}{3} \cdot \frac{\frac{\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}}}{a}
double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return ((double) (((double) (((double) -(b)) + ((double) sqrt(((double) (((double) (b * b)) - ((double) (((double) (3.0 * a)) * c)))))))) / ((double) (3.0 * a))));
}
↓
double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return ((double) (((double) (1.0 / 3.0)) * ((double) (((double) (((double) (((double) (((double) pow(b, 2.0)) - ((double) pow(b, 2.0)))) + ((double) (3.0 * ((double) (a * c)))))) / ((double) (((double) -(b)) - ((double) sqrt(((double) (((double) (b * b)) - ((double) (((double) (3.0 * a)) * c)))))))))) / a))));
}

Error

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Bits error versus b

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Derivation

  1. Initial program 52.6

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

  3. Applied flip-+52.6

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

  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 *-un-lft-identity0.5

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

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

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

  8. Applied times-frac0.5

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

  9. Applied times-frac0.6

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

  10. Simplified0.6

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

  11. Final simplification0.6

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020114 
(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)))