Average Error: 43.8 → 0.2
Time: 4.9s
Precision: binary64
\[1.11022 \cdot 10^{-16} \lt a \lt 9.0072 \cdot 10^{15} \land 1.11022 \cdot 10^{-16} \lt b \lt 9.0072 \cdot 10^{15} \land 1.11022 \cdot 10^{-16} \lt c \lt 9.0072 \cdot 10^{15}\]
\[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a}\]
↓
\[\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{4 \cdot c}{-\left(b + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}\right)}\]

Error

Bits error versus a

Bits error versus b

Bits error versus c

Derivation

  1. Initial program 43.8

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

  3. Applied flip-+43.8

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

  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-cube0.4

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

  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. Using strategy rm

  16. Applied *-un-lft-identity0.2

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

  17. Applied associate-/r*0.2

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

  18. Simplified0.2

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

  19. Final simplification0.2

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020156 
(FPCore (a b c)
  :name "Quadratic roots, medium range"
  :precision binary64
  :pre (and (< 1.1102230246251565e-16 a 9007199254740992.0) (< 1.1102230246251565e-16 b 9007199254740992.0) (< 1.1102230246251565e-16 c 9007199254740992.0))
  (/ (+ (neg b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 4.0 a) c)))) (* 2.0 a)))