Average Error: 52.4 → 0.4
Time: 5.4s
Precision: 64
\[4.93038 \cdot 10^{-32} \lt a \lt 2.02824 \cdot 10^{31} \land 4.93038 \cdot 10^{-32} \lt b \lt 2.02824 \cdot 10^{31} \land 4.93038 \cdot 10^{-32} \lt c \lt 2.02824 \cdot 10^{31}\]
\[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{3 \cdot a}\]
\[\frac{\left({b}^{2} - {b}^{2}\right) + \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}{\left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}\right)}\]

Error

Bits error versus a

Bits error versus b

Bits error versus c

Derivation

  1. Initial program 52.4

    \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{3 \cdot a}\]
  2. Using strategy rm
  3. Applied flip-+52.4

    \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} \cdot \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}}}{3 \cdot a}\]
  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 associate-*r*0.4

    \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\left({b}^{2} - {b}^{2}\right) + \color{blue}{\left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}}{3 \cdot a}\]
  7. Using strategy rm
  8. Applied div-inv0.5

    \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left(\left({b}^{2} - {b}^{2}\right) + \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c\right) \cdot \frac{1}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}}}{3 \cdot a}\]
  9. Applied associate-/l*0.5

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left({b}^{2} - {b}^{2}\right) + \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}{\frac{3 \cdot a}{\frac{1}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}}}}\]
  10. Simplified0.4

    \[\leadsto \frac{\left({b}^{2} - {b}^{2}\right) + \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}{\color{blue}{\left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}\right)}}\]
  11. Final simplification0.4

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020128 
(FPCore (a b c)
  :name "Cubic critical, wide range"
  :precision binary64
  :pre (and (< 4.930380657631324e-32 a 2.028240960365167e+31) (< 4.930380657631324e-32 b 2.028240960365167e+31) (< 4.930380657631324e-32 c 2.028240960365167e+31))
  (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 3.0 a) c)))) (* 3.0 a)))