Average Error: 34.2 → 6.9
Time: 6.3s
Precision: binary64
\[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{3 \cdot a}\]
↓
\[\begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \le -1.6931695005490156 \cdot 10^{80}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\frac{1.5 \cdot \left(c \cdot \frac{a}{b}\right) - b \cdot 2}{3}}{a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \le -8.87056301750562387 \cdot 10^{-257}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)}}{a \cdot 3}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \le 1.1734572876339935 \cdot 10^{72}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 3 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)}}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array}\]

Error

Bits error versus a

Bits error versus b

Bits error versus c

Derivation

  1. Split input into 4 regimes

  2. if b < -1.6931695005490156e80

    1. Initial program 43.9

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

    3. Applied associate-/r*43.8

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

    4. Simplified43.8

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

    5. Taylor expanded around -inf 10.6

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\color{blue}{1.5 \cdot \frac{a \cdot c}{b} - 2 \cdot b}}{3}}{a}\]

    6. Simplified4.9

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\color{blue}{1.5 \cdot \left(c \cdot \frac{a}{b}\right) - b \cdot 2}}{3}}{a}\]

    if -1.6931695005490156e80 < b < -8.87056301750562387e-257

    1. Initial program 8.6

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

    if -8.87056301750562387e-257 < b < 1.1734572876339935e72

    1. Initial program 28.8

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

    3. Applied flip-+28.8

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

    4. Simplified16.4

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

    5. Simplified16.3

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

    7. Applied *-un-lft-identity16.3

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

    8. Applied times-frac16.4

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

    9. Applied times-frac16.2

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

    10. Simplified16.2

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

    11. Simplified10.0

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

    if 1.1734572876339935e72 < b

    1. Initial program 58.0

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

    2. Taylor expanded around inf 3.2

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}}\]
  3. Recombined 4 regimes into one program.

  4. Final simplification6.9

    \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \le -1.6931695005490156 \cdot 10^{80}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\frac{1.5 \cdot \left(c \cdot \frac{a}{b}\right) - b \cdot 2}{3}}{a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \le -8.87056301750562387 \cdot 10^{-257}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)}}{a \cdot 3}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \le 1.1734572876339935 \cdot 10^{72}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 3 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)}}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array}\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020179 
(FPCore (a b c)
  :name "Cubic critical"
  :precision binary64
  (/ (+ (neg b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 3.0 a) c)))) (* 3.0 a)))