Average Error: 52.5 → 6.2
Time: 8.5s
Precision: binary64
\[4.93038 \cdot 10^{-32} \lt a \lt 2.02824 \cdot 10^{31} \land 4.93038 \cdot 10^{-32} \lt b \lt 2.02824 \cdot 10^{31} \land 4.93038 \cdot 10^{-32} \lt c \lt 2.02824 \cdot 10^{31}\]
\[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a}\]
\[-1 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\]

Error

Bits error versus a

Bits error versus b

Bits error versus c

Derivation

  1. Initial program 52.5

    \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a}\]
  2. Simplified52.5

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b}{2}}{a}}\]
  3. Taylor expanded around inf 6.2

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \frac{c}{b}}\]
  4. Final simplification6.2

    \[\leadsto -1 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020182 
(FPCore (a b c)
  :name "Quadratic roots, 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))
  (/ (+ (neg b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 4.0 a) c)))) (* 2.0 a)))