Average Error: 43.9 → 0.2
Time: 4.4s
Precision: binary64
\[1.11022 \cdot 10^{-16} \lt a \lt 9.0072 \cdot 10^{15} \land 1.11022 \cdot 10^{-16} \lt b \lt 9.0072 \cdot 10^{15} \land 1.11022 \cdot 10^{-16} \lt c \lt 9.0072 \cdot 10^{15}\]
\[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{3 \cdot a}\]
↓
\[\frac{-c}{b + \sqrt{\frac{{b}^{6} - {\left(3 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)\right)}^{3}}{{b}^{4} + 3 \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(c \cdot \left(3 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right) + b \cdot b\right)\right)\right)}}}\]

Error

Bits error versus a

Bits error versus b

Bits error versus c

Derivation

  1. Initial program 43.9

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

  2. Simplified43.9

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

  4. Applied flip--43.9

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

  5. Simplified0.5

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

  6. Simplified0.5

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

  8. Applied distribute-rgt-neg-out0.5

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

  9. Applied distribute-rgt-neg-out0.5

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

  10. Applied distribute-frac-neg0.5

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

  11. Applied distribute-frac-neg0.5

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

  12. Simplified0.2

    \[\leadsto -\color{blue}{1 \cdot \frac{c}{b + \sqrt{b \cdot b - 3 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}}\]
  13. Using strategy rm

  14. Applied flip3--0.2

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

  15. Simplified0.2

    \[\leadsto -1 \cdot \frac{c}{b + \sqrt{\frac{\color{blue}{{b}^{6} - {\left(3 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)\right)}^{3}}}{\left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right) + \left(\left(3 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)\right) \cdot \left(3 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)\right) + \left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot \left(3 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)\right)\right)}}}\]

  16. Simplified0.2

    \[\leadsto -1 \cdot \frac{c}{b + \sqrt{\frac{{b}^{6} - {\left(3 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)\right)}^{3}}{\color{blue}{{b}^{4} + 3 \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(c \cdot \left(3 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right) + b \cdot b\right)\right)\right)}}}}\]

  17. Final simplification0.2

    \[\leadsto \frac{-c}{b + \sqrt{\frac{{b}^{6} - {\left(3 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)\right)}^{3}}{{b}^{4} + 3 \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(c \cdot \left(3 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right) + b \cdot b\right)\right)\right)}}}\]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2020185 
(FPCore (a b c)
  :name "Cubic critical, 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) (* (* 3.0 a) c)))) (* 3.0 a)))