Quadratic roots, narrow range

Percentage Accurate: 55.8% → 91.7%

Time: 13.0s

Alternatives: 8

Speedup: 29.0×

Specification

\[\left(\left(1.0536712127723509 \cdot 10^{-8} < a \land a < 94906265.62425156\right) \land \left(1.0536712127723509 \cdot 10^{-8} < b \land b < 94906265.62425156\right)\right) \land \left(1.0536712127723509 \cdot 10^{-8} < c \land c < 94906265.62425156\right)\]

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 4.0 a) c)))) (* 2.0 a)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c)))) / (2.0 * a);
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b, c)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8), intent (in) :: c
    code = (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0d0 * a) * c)))) / (2.0d0 * a)
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (-b + Math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c)))) / (2.0 * a);
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	return (-b + math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c)))) / (2.0 * a)

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	return Float64(Float64(Float64(-b) + sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(Float64(4.0 * a) * c)))) / Float64(2.0 * a))
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c)))) / (2.0 * a);
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := N[(N[((-b) + N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(N[(4.0 * a), $MachinePrecision] * c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(2.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]

Initial Program: 55.8% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 4.0 a) c)))) (* 2.0 a)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c)))) / (2.0 * a);
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b, c)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8), intent (in) :: c
    code = (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0d0 * a) * c)))) / (2.0d0 * a)
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (-b + Math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c)))) / (2.0 * a);
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	return (-b + math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c)))) / (2.0 * a)

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	return Float64(Float64(Float64(-b) + sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(Float64(4.0 * a) * c)))) / Float64(2.0 * a))
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c)))) / (2.0 * a);
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := N[(N[((-b) + N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(N[(4.0 * a), $MachinePrecision] * c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(2.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]

Alternative 1: 91.7% accurate, 0.2× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 4\right)\\ \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 0.3:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\frac{t_0 - b \cdot b}{b + \sqrt{t_0}}}{a \cdot 2}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(-2, \frac{{c}^{3}}{\frac{{b}^{5}}{a \cdot a}}, \frac{\frac{-5 \cdot {c}^{4}}{\frac{{b}^{6}}{{a}^{3}}}}{b}\right) - \frac{c}{b}\right) - \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0 (- (* b b) (* c (* a 4.0)))))
   (if (<= b 0.3)
     (/ (/ (- t_0 (* b b)) (+ b (sqrt t_0))) (* a 2.0))
     (-
      (-
       (fma
        -2.0
        (/ (pow c 3.0) (/ (pow b 5.0) (* a a)))
        (/ (/ (* -5.0 (pow c 4.0)) (/ (pow b 6.0) (pow a 3.0))) b))
       (/ c b))
      (/ (* c c) (/ (pow b 3.0) a))))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double t_0 = (b * b) - (c * (a * 4.0));
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 0.3) {
		tmp = ((t_0 - (b * b)) / (b + sqrt(t_0))) / (a * 2.0);
	} else {
		tmp = (fma(-2.0, (pow(c, 3.0) / (pow(b, 5.0) / (a * a))), (((-5.0 * pow(c, 4.0)) / (pow(b, 6.0) / pow(a, 3.0))) / b)) - (c / b)) - ((c * c) / (pow(b, 3.0) / a));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	t_0 = Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(c * Float64(a * 4.0)))
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= 0.3)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(Float64(t_0 - Float64(b * b)) / Float64(b + sqrt(t_0))) / Float64(a * 2.0));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(fma(-2.0, Float64((c ^ 3.0) / Float64((b ^ 5.0) / Float64(a * a))), Float64(Float64(Float64(-5.0 * (c ^ 4.0)) / Float64((b ^ 6.0) / (a ^ 3.0))) / b)) - Float64(c / b)) - Float64(Float64(c * c) / Float64((b ^ 3.0) / a)));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := Block[{t$95$0 = N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(c * N[(a * 4.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]}, If[LessEqual[b, 0.3], N[(N[(N[(t$95$0 - N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(b + N[Sqrt[t$95$0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * 2.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(N[(-2.0 * N[(N[Power[c, 3.0], $MachinePrecision] / N[(N[Power[b, 5.0], $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[(N[(N[(-5.0 * N[Power[c, 4.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(N[Power[b, 6.0], $MachinePrecision] / N[Power[a, 3.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - N[(N[(c * c), $MachinePrecision] / N[(N[Power[b, 3.0], $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < 0.299999999999999989

   1. Initial program 86.1%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 86.1%

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

      2. +-commutative 86.1%

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

      3. unsub-neg 86.1%

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

      4. fma-neg 86.2%

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

      5. associate-*l* 86.2%

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

      6. *-commutative 86.2%

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

      7. distribute-rgt-neg-in 86.2%

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

      8. metadata-eval 86.2%

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

   3. Simplified 86.2%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \left(a \cdot c\right) \cdot -4\right)} - b}{a \cdot 2}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. fma-udef 86.1%

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

      2. *-commutative 86.1%

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

      3. metadata-eval 86.1%

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

      4. cancel-sign-sub-inv 86.1%

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

      5. associate-*l* 86.1%

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

      6. *-un-lft-identity 86.1%

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

      7. prod-diff 86.2%

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

   5. Applied egg-rr 86.0%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -\left(a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)\right) \cdot 1\right) + \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right), 1, \left(a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)\right) \cdot 1\right)}} - b}{a \cdot 2} \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-rgt-identity 86.0%

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

      2. fma-neg 85.4%

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

      3. fma-udef 85.4%

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

      4. *-rgt-identity 85.4%

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

      5. *-rgt-identity 85.4%

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

      6. associate--r- 86.1%

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

      7. associate--r+ 86.1%

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

      8. +-inverses 86.1%

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

      9. neg-sub0 86.1%

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

      10. associate-*r* 86.1%

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

      11. distribute-rgt-neg-in 86.1%

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

      12. metadata-eval 86.1%

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

      13. *-commutative 86.1%

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

      14. associate-*r* 86.1%

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

   7. Simplified 86.1%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\color{blue}{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 4\right)}} - b}{a \cdot 2} \]
   8. Step-by-step derivation

      1. flip-- 86.6%

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

      2. add-sqr-sqrt 87.5%

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

   9. Applied egg-rr 87.5%

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

   if 0.299999999999999989 < b

   1. Initial program 53.4%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. /-rgt-identity 53.4%

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

      2. metadata-eval 53.4%

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

      3. associate-/l* 53.4%

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

      4. associate-*r/ 53.4%

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

      5. +-commutative 53.4%

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

      6. unsub-neg 53.4%

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

      7. fma-neg 53.6%

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

      8. associate-*l* 53.6%

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

      9. *-commutative 53.6%

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

      10. distribute-rgt-neg-in 53.6%

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

      11. metadata-eval 53.6%

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

      12. associate-/r* 53.6%

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

      13. metadata-eval 53.6%

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

      14. metadata-eval 53.6%

          \[\leadsto \left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \left(a \cdot c\right) \cdot -4\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{\color{blue}{0.5}}{a} \]

   3. Simplified 53.6%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \left(a \cdot c\right) \cdot -4\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{a}} \]

   4. Taylor expanded in a around 0 94.7%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}} + \left(-1 \cdot \frac{c}{b} + \left(-0.25 \cdot \frac{{a}^{3} \cdot \left(16 \cdot \frac{{c}^{4}}{{b}^{6}} + {\left(-2 \cdot \frac{{c}^{2}}{{b}^{3}}\right)}^{2}\right)}{b} + -2 \cdot \frac{{c}^{3} \cdot {a}^{2}}{{b}^{5}}\right)\right)} \]

   6. Simplified 94.7%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(-2, \frac{{c}^{3}}{\frac{{b}^{5}}{a \cdot a}}, \frac{\left(-0.25 \cdot {a}^{3}\right) \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(16, \frac{{c}^{4}}{{b}^{6}}, 4 \cdot \frac{{c}^{4}}{{b}^{6}}\right)}{b}\right) - \frac{c}{b}\right) - \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}} \]

   7. Taylor expanded in c around 0 94.7%

      \[\leadsto \left(\mathsf{fma}\left(-2, \frac{{c}^{3}}{\frac{{b}^{5}}{a \cdot a}}, \frac{\color{blue}{-5 \cdot \frac{{c}^{4} \cdot {a}^{3}}{{b}^{6}}}}{b}\right) - \frac{c}{b}\right) - \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}} \]
   8. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate-/l* 94.7%

         \[\leadsto \left(\mathsf{fma}\left(-2, \frac{{c}^{3}}{\frac{{b}^{5}}{a \cdot a}}, \frac{-5 \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{{c}^{4}}{\frac{{b}^{6}}{{a}^{3}}}}}{b}\right) - \frac{c}{b}\right) - \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}} \]

      2. associate-*r/ 94.7%

         \[\leadsto \left(\mathsf{fma}\left(-2, \frac{{c}^{3}}{\frac{{b}^{5}}{a \cdot a}}, \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{-5 \cdot {c}^{4}}{\frac{{b}^{6}}{{a}^{3}}}}}{b}\right) - \frac{c}{b}\right) - \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}} \]

   9. Simplified 94.7%

      \[\leadsto \left(\mathsf{fma}\left(-2, \frac{{c}^{3}}{\frac{{b}^{5}}{a \cdot a}}, \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{-5 \cdot {c}^{4}}{\frac{{b}^{6}}{{a}^{3}}}}}{b}\right) - \frac{c}{b}\right) - \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 93.7%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 0.3:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\frac{\left(b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 4\right)\right) - b \cdot b}{b + \sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 4\right)}}}{a \cdot 2}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(-2, \frac{{c}^{3}}{\frac{{b}^{5}}{a \cdot a}}, \frac{\frac{-5 \cdot {c}^{4}}{\frac{{b}^{6}}{{a}^{3}}}}{b}\right) - \frac{c}{b}\right) - \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 2: 91.7% accurate, 0.2× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 4\right)\\ \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 0.3:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\frac{t_0 - b \cdot b}{b + \sqrt{t_0}}}{a \cdot 2}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.25, \frac{{\left(c \cdot a\right)}^{4}}{{b}^{7}} \cdot \frac{20}{a}, \frac{-2 \cdot \left({c}^{3} \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right)\right)}{{b}^{5}} - \frac{c}{b}\right) - a \cdot \frac{c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{c}}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0 (- (* b b) (* c (* a 4.0)))))
   (if (<= b 0.3)
     (/ (/ (- t_0 (* b b)) (+ b (sqrt t_0))) (* a 2.0))
     (-
      (fma
       -0.25
       (* (/ (pow (* c a) 4.0) (pow b 7.0)) (/ 20.0 a))
       (- (/ (* -2.0 (* (pow c 3.0) (* a a))) (pow b 5.0)) (/ c b)))
      (* a (/ c (/ (pow b 3.0) c)))))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double t_0 = (b * b) - (c * (a * 4.0));
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 0.3) {
		tmp = ((t_0 - (b * b)) / (b + sqrt(t_0))) / (a * 2.0);
	} else {
		tmp = fma(-0.25, ((pow((c * a), 4.0) / pow(b, 7.0)) * (20.0 / a)), (((-2.0 * (pow(c, 3.0) * (a * a))) / pow(b, 5.0)) - (c / b))) - (a * (c / (pow(b, 3.0) / c)));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	t_0 = Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(c * Float64(a * 4.0)))
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= 0.3)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(Float64(t_0 - Float64(b * b)) / Float64(b + sqrt(t_0))) / Float64(a * 2.0));
	else
		tmp = Float64(fma(-0.25, Float64(Float64((Float64(c * a) ^ 4.0) / (b ^ 7.0)) * Float64(20.0 / a)), Float64(Float64(Float64(-2.0 * Float64((c ^ 3.0) * Float64(a * a))) / (b ^ 5.0)) - Float64(c / b))) - Float64(a * Float64(c / Float64((b ^ 3.0) / c))));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := Block[{t$95$0 = N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(c * N[(a * 4.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]}, If[LessEqual[b, 0.3], N[(N[(N[(t$95$0 - N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(b + N[Sqrt[t$95$0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * 2.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(-0.25 * N[(N[(N[Power[N[(c * a), $MachinePrecision], 4.0], $MachinePrecision] / N[Power[b, 7.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * N[(20.0 / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[(N[(N[(-2.0 * N[(N[Power[c, 3.0], $MachinePrecision] * N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[Power[b, 5.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - N[(a * N[(c / N[(N[Power[b, 3.0], $MachinePrecision] / c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < 0.299999999999999989

   1. Initial program 86.1%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 86.1%

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

      2. +-commutative 86.1%

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

      3. unsub-neg 86.1%

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

      4. fma-neg 86.2%

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

      5. associate-*l* 86.2%

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

      6. *-commutative 86.2%

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

      7. distribute-rgt-neg-in 86.2%

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

      8. metadata-eval 86.2%

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

   3. Simplified 86.2%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \left(a \cdot c\right) \cdot -4\right)} - b}{a \cdot 2}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. fma-udef 86.1%

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

      2. *-commutative 86.1%

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

      3. metadata-eval 86.1%

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

      4. cancel-sign-sub-inv 86.1%

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

      5. associate-*l* 86.1%

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

      6. *-un-lft-identity 86.1%

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

      7. prod-diff 86.2%

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

   5. Applied egg-rr 86.0%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -\left(a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)\right) \cdot 1\right) + \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right), 1, \left(a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)\right) \cdot 1\right)}} - b}{a \cdot 2} \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-rgt-identity 86.0%

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

      2. fma-neg 85.4%

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

      3. fma-udef 85.4%

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

      4. *-rgt-identity 85.4%

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

      5. *-rgt-identity 85.4%

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

      6. associate--r- 86.1%

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

      7. associate--r+ 86.1%

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

      8. +-inverses 86.1%

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

      9. neg-sub0 86.1%

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

      10. associate-*r* 86.1%

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

      11. distribute-rgt-neg-in 86.1%

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

      12. metadata-eval 86.1%

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

      13. *-commutative 86.1%

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

      14. associate-*r* 86.1%

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

   7. Simplified 86.1%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\color{blue}{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 4\right)}} - b}{a \cdot 2} \]
   8. Step-by-step derivation

      1. flip-- 86.6%

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

      2. add-sqr-sqrt 87.5%

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

   9. Applied egg-rr 87.5%

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

   if 0.299999999999999989 < b

   1. Initial program 53.4%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. /-rgt-identity 53.4%

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

      2. metadata-eval 53.4%

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

      3. associate-/l* 53.4%

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

      4. associate-*r/ 53.4%

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

      5. +-commutative 53.4%

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

      6. unsub-neg 53.4%

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

      7. fma-neg 53.6%

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

      8. associate-*l* 53.6%

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

      9. *-commutative 53.6%

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

      10. distribute-rgt-neg-in 53.6%

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

      11. metadata-eval 53.6%

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

      12. associate-/r* 53.6%

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

      13. metadata-eval 53.6%

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

      14. metadata-eval 53.6%

          \[\leadsto \left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \left(a \cdot c\right) \cdot -4\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{\color{blue}{0.5}}{a} \]

   3. Simplified 53.6%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \left(a \cdot c\right) \cdot -4\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{a}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. fma-udef 53.4%

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

      2. *-commutative 53.4%

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

      3. metadata-eval 53.4%

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

      4. cancel-sign-sub-inv 53.4%

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

      5. associate-*l* 53.4%

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

      6. *-un-lft-identity 53.4%

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

      7. prod-diff 53.6%

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

   5. Applied egg-rr 53.5%

      \[\leadsto \left(\sqrt{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -\left(a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)\right) \cdot 1\right) + \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right), 1, \left(a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)\right) \cdot 1\right)}} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{a} \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-rgt-identity 53.5%

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

      2. fma-neg 53.2%

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

      3. fma-udef 53.2%

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

      4. *-rgt-identity 53.2%

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

      5. *-rgt-identity 53.2%

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

      6. associate--r- 53.4%

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

      7. associate--r+ 53.4%

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

      8. +-inverses 53.4%

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

      9. neg-sub0 53.4%

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

      10. associate-*r* 53.4%

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

      11. distribute-rgt-neg-in 53.4%

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

      12. metadata-eval 53.4%

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

      13. *-commutative 53.4%

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

      14. associate-*r* 53.4%

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

   7. Simplified 53.4%

      \[\leadsto \left(\sqrt{\color{blue}{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 4\right)}} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{a} \]

   8. Taylor expanded in b around inf 94.7%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}} + \left(-0.25 \cdot \frac{{\left(-2 \cdot \left({c}^{2} \cdot {a}^{2}\right)\right)}^{2} + 16 \cdot \left({c}^{4} \cdot {a}^{4}\right)}{a \cdot {b}^{7}} + \left(-1 \cdot \frac{c}{b} + -2 \cdot \frac{{c}^{3} \cdot {a}^{2}}{{b}^{5}}\right)\right)} \]

   10. Simplified 94.7%

       \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.25, \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(16, {c}^{4} \cdot {a}^{4}, 4 \cdot \left({c}^{4} \cdot {a}^{4}\right)\right)}{a \cdot {b}^{7}}, \frac{\left({c}^{3} \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right)\right) \cdot -2}{{b}^{5}} - \frac{c}{b}\right) - \frac{c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{c}} \cdot a} \]

   11. Taylor expanded in c around 0 94.7%

       \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.25, \color{blue}{\frac{{c}^{4} \cdot \left(4 \cdot {a}^{4} + 16 \cdot {a}^{4}\right)}{a \cdot {b}^{7}}}, \frac{\left({c}^{3} \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right)\right) \cdot -2}{{b}^{5}} - \frac{c}{b}\right) - \frac{c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{c}} \cdot a \]
   12. Step-by-step derivation

       1. *-commutative 94.7%

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.25, \frac{{c}^{4} \cdot \left(4 \cdot {a}^{4} + 16 \cdot {a}^{4}\right)}{\color{blue}{{b}^{7} \cdot a}}, \frac{\left({c}^{3} \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right)\right) \cdot -2}{{b}^{5}} - \frac{c}{b}\right) - \frac{c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{c}} \cdot a \]

       2. distribute-rgt-out 94.7%

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.25, \frac{{c}^{4} \cdot \color{blue}{\left({a}^{4} \cdot \left(4 + 16\right)\right)}}{{b}^{7} \cdot a}, \frac{\left({c}^{3} \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right)\right) \cdot -2}{{b}^{5}} - \frac{c}{b}\right) - \frac{c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{c}} \cdot a \]

       3. associate-*r* 94.7%

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.25, \frac{\color{blue}{\left({c}^{4} \cdot {a}^{4}\right) \cdot \left(4 + 16\right)}}{{b}^{7} \cdot a}, \frac{\left({c}^{3} \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right)\right) \cdot -2}{{b}^{5}} - \frac{c}{b}\right) - \frac{c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{c}} \cdot a \]

       4. times-frac 94.7%

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.25, \color{blue}{\frac{{c}^{4} \cdot {a}^{4}}{{b}^{7}} \cdot \frac{4 + 16}{a}}, \frac{\left({c}^{3} \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right)\right) \cdot -2}{{b}^{5}} - \frac{c}{b}\right) - \frac{c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{c}} \cdot a \]

   13. Simplified 94.7%

       \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.25, \color{blue}{\frac{{\left(c \cdot a\right)}^{4}}{{b}^{7}} \cdot \frac{20}{a}}, \frac{\left({c}^{3} \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right)\right) \cdot -2}{{b}^{5}} - \frac{c}{b}\right) - \frac{c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{c}} \cdot a \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 93.7%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 0.3:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\frac{\left(b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 4\right)\right) - b \cdot b}{b + \sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 4\right)}}}{a \cdot 2}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.25, \frac{{\left(c \cdot a\right)}^{4}}{{b}^{7}} \cdot \frac{20}{a}, \frac{-2 \cdot \left({c}^{3} \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right)\right)}{{b}^{5}} - \frac{c}{b}\right) - a \cdot \frac{c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{c}}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 3: 89.4% accurate, 0.4× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 4\right)\\ \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 0.67:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\frac{t_0 - b \cdot b}{b + \sqrt{t_0}}}{a \cdot 2}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\frac{-2 \cdot \left({c}^{3} \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right)\right)}{{b}^{5}} - \frac{c}{b}\right) - a \cdot \frac{c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{c}}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0 (- (* b b) (* c (* a 4.0)))))
   (if (<= b 0.67)
     (/ (/ (- t_0 (* b b)) (+ b (sqrt t_0))) (* a 2.0))
     (-
      (- (/ (* -2.0 (* (pow c 3.0) (* a a))) (pow b 5.0)) (/ c b))
      (* a (/ c (/ (pow b 3.0) c)))))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double t_0 = (b * b) - (c * (a * 4.0));
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 0.67) {
		tmp = ((t_0 - (b * b)) / (b + sqrt(t_0))) / (a * 2.0);
	} else {
		tmp = (((-2.0 * (pow(c, 3.0) * (a * a))) / pow(b, 5.0)) - (c / b)) - (a * (c / (pow(b, 3.0) / c)));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b, c)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8), intent (in) :: c
    real(8) :: t_0
    real(8) :: tmp
    t_0 = (b * b) - (c * (a * 4.0d0))
    if (b <= 0.67d0) then
        tmp = ((t_0 - (b * b)) / (b + sqrt(t_0))) / (a * 2.0d0)
    else
        tmp = ((((-2.0d0) * ((c ** 3.0d0) * (a * a))) / (b ** 5.0d0)) - (c / b)) - (a * (c / ((b ** 3.0d0) / c)))
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double t_0 = (b * b) - (c * (a * 4.0));
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 0.67) {
		tmp = ((t_0 - (b * b)) / (b + Math.sqrt(t_0))) / (a * 2.0);
	} else {
		tmp = (((-2.0 * (Math.pow(c, 3.0) * (a * a))) / Math.pow(b, 5.0)) - (c / b)) - (a * (c / (Math.pow(b, 3.0) / c)));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	t_0 = (b * b) - (c * (a * 4.0))
	tmp = 0
	if b <= 0.67:
		tmp = ((t_0 - (b * b)) / (b + math.sqrt(t_0))) / (a * 2.0)
	else:
		tmp = (((-2.0 * (math.pow(c, 3.0) * (a * a))) / math.pow(b, 5.0)) - (c / b)) - (a * (c / (math.pow(b, 3.0) / c)))
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	t_0 = Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(c * Float64(a * 4.0)))
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= 0.67)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(Float64(t_0 - Float64(b * b)) / Float64(b + sqrt(t_0))) / Float64(a * 2.0));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(Float64(Float64(-2.0 * Float64((c ^ 3.0) * Float64(a * a))) / (b ^ 5.0)) - Float64(c / b)) - Float64(a * Float64(c / Float64((b ^ 3.0) / c))));
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	t_0 = (b * b) - (c * (a * 4.0));
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= 0.67)
		tmp = ((t_0 - (b * b)) / (b + sqrt(t_0))) / (a * 2.0);
	else
		tmp = (((-2.0 * ((c ^ 3.0) * (a * a))) / (b ^ 5.0)) - (c / b)) - (a * (c / ((b ^ 3.0) / c)));
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := Block[{t$95$0 = N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(c * N[(a * 4.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]}, If[LessEqual[b, 0.67], N[(N[(N[(t$95$0 - N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(b + N[Sqrt[t$95$0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * 2.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(N[(N[(-2.0 * N[(N[Power[c, 3.0], $MachinePrecision] * N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[Power[b, 5.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - N[(a * N[(c / N[(N[Power[b, 3.0], $MachinePrecision] / c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < 0.67000000000000004

   1. Initial program 84.9%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 84.9%

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

      2. +-commutative 84.9%

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

      3. unsub-neg 84.9%

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

      4. fma-neg 84.9%

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

      5. associate-*l* 84.9%

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

      6. *-commutative 84.9%

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

      7. distribute-rgt-neg-in 84.9%

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

      8. metadata-eval 84.9%

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

   3. Simplified 84.9%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \left(a \cdot c\right) \cdot -4\right)} - b}{a \cdot 2}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. fma-udef 84.9%

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

      2. *-commutative 84.9%

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

      3. metadata-eval 84.9%

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

      4. cancel-sign-sub-inv 84.9%

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

      5. associate-*l* 84.9%

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

      6. *-un-lft-identity 84.9%

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

      7. prod-diff 84.9%

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

   5. Applied egg-rr 84.8%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -\left(a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)\right) \cdot 1\right) + \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right), 1, \left(a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)\right) \cdot 1\right)}} - b}{a \cdot 2} \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-rgt-identity 84.8%

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

      2. fma-neg 84.3%

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

      3. fma-udef 84.3%

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

      4. *-rgt-identity 84.3%

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

      5. *-rgt-identity 84.3%

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

      6. associate--r- 84.9%

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

      7. associate--r+ 84.9%

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

      8. +-inverses 84.9%

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

      9. neg-sub0 84.9%

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

      10. associate-*r* 84.9%

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

      11. distribute-rgt-neg-in 84.9%

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

      12. metadata-eval 84.9%

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

      13. *-commutative 84.9%

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

      14. associate-*r* 84.9%

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

   7. Simplified 84.9%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\color{blue}{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 4\right)}} - b}{a \cdot 2} \]
   8. Step-by-step derivation

      1. flip-- 85.4%

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

      2. add-sqr-sqrt 86.4%

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

   9. Applied egg-rr 86.4%

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

   if 0.67000000000000004 < b

   1. Initial program 52.7%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. /-rgt-identity 52.7%

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

      2. metadata-eval 52.7%

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

      3. associate-/l* 52.7%

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

      4. associate-*r/ 52.7%

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

      5. +-commutative 52.7%

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

      6. unsub-neg 52.7%

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

      7. fma-neg 52.9%

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

      8. associate-*l* 52.9%

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

      9. *-commutative 52.9%

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

      10. distribute-rgt-neg-in 52.9%

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

      11. metadata-eval 52.9%

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

      12. associate-/r* 52.9%

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

      13. metadata-eval 52.9%

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

      14. metadata-eval 52.9%

          \[\leadsto \left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \left(a \cdot c\right) \cdot -4\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{\color{blue}{0.5}}{a} \]

   3. Simplified 52.9%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \left(a \cdot c\right) \cdot -4\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{a}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. fma-udef 52.7%

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

      2. *-commutative 52.7%

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

      3. metadata-eval 52.7%

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

      4. cancel-sign-sub-inv 52.7%

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

      5. associate-*l* 52.7%

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

      6. *-un-lft-identity 52.7%

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

      7. prod-diff 52.9%

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

   5. Applied egg-rr 52.8%

      \[\leadsto \left(\sqrt{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -\left(a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)\right) \cdot 1\right) + \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right), 1, \left(a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)\right) \cdot 1\right)}} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{a} \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-rgt-identity 52.8%

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

      2. fma-neg 52.5%

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

      3. fma-udef 52.5%

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

      4. *-rgt-identity 52.5%

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

      5. *-rgt-identity 52.5%

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

      6. associate--r- 52.7%

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

      7. associate--r+ 52.7%

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

      8. +-inverses 52.7%

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

      9. neg-sub0 52.7%

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

      10. associate-*r* 52.7%

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

      11. distribute-rgt-neg-in 52.7%

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

      12. metadata-eval 52.7%

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

      13. *-commutative 52.7%

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

      14. associate-*r* 52.7%

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

   7. Simplified 52.7%

      \[\leadsto \left(\sqrt{\color{blue}{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 4\right)}} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{a} \]

   8. Taylor expanded in b around inf 92.4%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}} + \left(-1 \cdot \frac{c}{b} + -2 \cdot \frac{{c}^{3} \cdot {a}^{2}}{{b}^{5}}\right)} \]
   9. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative 92.4%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(-1 \cdot \frac{c}{b} + -2 \cdot \frac{{c}^{3} \cdot {a}^{2}}{{b}^{5}}\right) + -1 \cdot \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}}} \]

      2. mul-1-neg 92.4%

         \[\leadsto \left(-1 \cdot \frac{c}{b} + -2 \cdot \frac{{c}^{3} \cdot {a}^{2}}{{b}^{5}}\right) + \color{blue}{\left(-\frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}}\right)} \]

      3. unsub-neg 92.4%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(-1 \cdot \frac{c}{b} + -2 \cdot \frac{{c}^{3} \cdot {a}^{2}}{{b}^{5}}\right) - \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}}} \]

      4. +-commutative 92.4%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(-2 \cdot \frac{{c}^{3} \cdot {a}^{2}}{{b}^{5}} + -1 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right)} - \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}} \]

      5. mul-1-neg 92.4%

         \[\leadsto \left(-2 \cdot \frac{{c}^{3} \cdot {a}^{2}}{{b}^{5}} + \color{blue}{\left(-\frac{c}{b}\right)}\right) - \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}} \]

      6. unsub-neg 92.4%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(-2 \cdot \frac{{c}^{3} \cdot {a}^{2}}{{b}^{5}} - \frac{c}{b}\right)} - \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}} \]

      7. *-commutative 92.4%

         \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{\frac{{c}^{3} \cdot {a}^{2}}{{b}^{5}} \cdot -2} - \frac{c}{b}\right) - \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}} \]

      8. associate-*l/ 92.4%

         \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{\frac{\left({c}^{3} \cdot {a}^{2}\right) \cdot -2}{{b}^{5}}} - \frac{c}{b}\right) - \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}} \]

      9. unpow2 92.4%

         \[\leadsto \left(\frac{\left({c}^{3} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)}\right) \cdot -2}{{b}^{5}} - \frac{c}{b}\right) - \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}} \]

      10. associate-*l/ 92.4%

          \[\leadsto \left(\frac{\left({c}^{3} \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right)\right) \cdot -2}{{b}^{5}} - \frac{c}{b}\right) - \color{blue}{\frac{{c}^{2}}{{b}^{3}} \cdot a} \]

      11. unpow2 92.4%

          \[\leadsto \left(\frac{\left({c}^{3} \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right)\right) \cdot -2}{{b}^{5}} - \frac{c}{b}\right) - \frac{\color{blue}{c \cdot c}}{{b}^{3}} \cdot a \]

   10. Simplified 92.4%

       \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\frac{\left({c}^{3} \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right)\right) \cdot -2}{{b}^{5}} - \frac{c}{b}\right) - \frac{c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{c}} \cdot a} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 91.4%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 0.67:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\frac{\left(b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 4\right)\right) - b \cdot b}{b + \sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 4\right)}}}{a \cdot 2}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\frac{-2 \cdot \left({c}^{3} \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right)\right)}{{b}^{5}} - \frac{c}{b}\right) - a \cdot \frac{c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{c}}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 4: 85.4% accurate, 0.5× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 4\right)\\ t_1 := \sqrt{t_0}\\ \mathbf{if}\;\frac{t_1 - b}{a \cdot 2} \leq -0.035:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{t_0 - b \cdot b}{b + t_1} \cdot \frac{0.5}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b} - \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0 (- (* b b) (* c (* a 4.0)))) (t_1 (sqrt t_0)))
   (if (<= (/ (- t_1 b) (* a 2.0)) -0.035)
     (* (/ (- t_0 (* b b)) (+ b t_1)) (/ 0.5 a))
     (- (/ (- c) b) (/ (* c c) (/ (pow b 3.0) a))))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double t_0 = (b * b) - (c * (a * 4.0));
	double t_1 = sqrt(t_0);
	double tmp;
	if (((t_1 - b) / (a * 2.0)) <= -0.035) {
		tmp = ((t_0 - (b * b)) / (b + t_1)) * (0.5 / a);
	} else {
		tmp = (-c / b) - ((c * c) / (pow(b, 3.0) / a));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b, c)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8), intent (in) :: c
    real(8) :: t_0
    real(8) :: t_1
    real(8) :: tmp
    t_0 = (b * b) - (c * (a * 4.0d0))
    t_1 = sqrt(t_0)
    if (((t_1 - b) / (a * 2.0d0)) <= (-0.035d0)) then
        tmp = ((t_0 - (b * b)) / (b + t_1)) * (0.5d0 / a)
    else
        tmp = (-c / b) - ((c * c) / ((b ** 3.0d0) / a))
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double t_0 = (b * b) - (c * (a * 4.0));
	double t_1 = Math.sqrt(t_0);
	double tmp;
	if (((t_1 - b) / (a * 2.0)) <= -0.035) {
		tmp = ((t_0 - (b * b)) / (b + t_1)) * (0.5 / a);
	} else {
		tmp = (-c / b) - ((c * c) / (Math.pow(b, 3.0) / a));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	t_0 = (b * b) - (c * (a * 4.0))
	t_1 = math.sqrt(t_0)
	tmp = 0
	if ((t_1 - b) / (a * 2.0)) <= -0.035:
		tmp = ((t_0 - (b * b)) / (b + t_1)) * (0.5 / a)
	else:
		tmp = (-c / b) - ((c * c) / (math.pow(b, 3.0) / a))
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	t_0 = Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(c * Float64(a * 4.0)))
	t_1 = sqrt(t_0)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(Float64(t_1 - b) / Float64(a * 2.0)) <= -0.035)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(Float64(t_0 - Float64(b * b)) / Float64(b + t_1)) * Float64(0.5 / a));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(Float64(-c) / b) - Float64(Float64(c * c) / Float64((b ^ 3.0) / a)));
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	t_0 = (b * b) - (c * (a * 4.0));
	t_1 = sqrt(t_0);
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (((t_1 - b) / (a * 2.0)) <= -0.035)
		tmp = ((t_0 - (b * b)) / (b + t_1)) * (0.5 / a);
	else
		tmp = (-c / b) - ((c * c) / ((b ^ 3.0) / a));
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := Block[{t$95$0 = N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(c * N[(a * 4.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]}, Block[{t$95$1 = N[Sqrt[t$95$0], $MachinePrecision]}, If[LessEqual[N[(N[(t$95$1 - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * 2.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], -0.035], N[(N[(N[(t$95$0 - N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(b + t$95$1), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * N[(0.5 / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(N[(c * c), $MachinePrecision] / N[(N[Power[b, 3.0], $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (/.f64 (+.f64 (neg.f64 b) (sqrt.f64 (-.f64 (*.f64 b b) (*.f64 (*.f64 4 a) c)))) (*.f64 2 a)) < -0.035000000000000003

   1. Initial program 79.2%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. /-rgt-identity 79.2%

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

      2. metadata-eval 79.2%

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

      3. associate-/l* 79.2%

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

      4. associate-*r/ 79.2%

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

      5. +-commutative 79.2%

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

      6. unsub-neg 79.2%

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

      7. fma-neg 79.3%

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

      8. associate-*l* 79.3%

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

      9. *-commutative 79.3%

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

      10. distribute-rgt-neg-in 79.3%

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

      11. metadata-eval 79.3%

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

      12. associate-/r* 79.3%

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

      13. metadata-eval 79.3%

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

      14. metadata-eval 79.3%

          \[\leadsto \left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \left(a \cdot c\right) \cdot -4\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{\color{blue}{0.5}}{a} \]

   3. Simplified 79.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \left(a \cdot c\right) \cdot -4\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{a}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. fma-udef 79.2%

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

      2. *-commutative 79.2%

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

      3. metadata-eval 79.2%

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

      4. cancel-sign-sub-inv 79.2%

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

      5. associate-*l* 79.2%

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

      6. *-un-lft-identity 79.2%

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

      7. prod-diff 79.3%

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

   5. Applied egg-rr 79.1%

      \[\leadsto \left(\sqrt{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -\left(a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)\right) \cdot 1\right) + \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right), 1, \left(a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)\right) \cdot 1\right)}} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{a} \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-rgt-identity 79.1%

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

      2. fma-neg 78.9%

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

      3. fma-udef 78.9%

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

      4. *-rgt-identity 78.9%

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

      5. *-rgt-identity 78.9%

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

      6. associate--r- 79.2%

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

      7. associate--r+ 79.2%

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

      8. +-inverses 79.2%

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

      9. neg-sub0 79.2%

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

      10. associate-*r* 79.2%

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

      11. distribute-rgt-neg-in 79.2%

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

      12. metadata-eval 79.2%

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

      13. *-commutative 79.2%

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

      14. associate-*r* 79.2%

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

   7. Simplified 79.2%

      \[\leadsto \left(\sqrt{\color{blue}{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 4\right)}} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{a} \]
   8. Step-by-step derivation

      1. flip-- 79.4%

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

      2. add-sqr-sqrt 81.1%

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

   9. Applied egg-rr 81.1%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 4\right)\right) - b \cdot b}{\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 4\right)} + b}} \cdot \frac{0.5}{a} \]

   if -0.035000000000000003 < (/.f64 (+.f64 (neg.f64 b) (sqrt.f64 (-.f64 (*.f64 b b) (*.f64 (*.f64 4 a) c)))) (*.f64 2 a))

   1. Initial program 49.1%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. /-rgt-identity 49.1%

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

      2. metadata-eval 49.1%

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

      3. associate-/l* 49.1%

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

      4. associate-*r/ 49.1%

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

      5. +-commutative 49.1%

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

      6. unsub-neg 49.1%

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

      7. fma-neg 49.2%

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

      8. associate-*l* 49.2%

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

      9. *-commutative 49.2%

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

      10. distribute-rgt-neg-in 49.2%

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

      11. metadata-eval 49.2%

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

      12. associate-/r* 49.2%

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

      13. metadata-eval 49.2%

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

      14. metadata-eval 49.2%

          \[\leadsto \left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \left(a \cdot c\right) \cdot -4\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{\color{blue}{0.5}}{a} \]

   3. Simplified 49.2%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \left(a \cdot c\right) \cdot -4\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{a}} \]

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 88.6%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}} + -1 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
   5. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative 88.6%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \frac{c}{b} + -1 \cdot \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}}} \]

      2. mul-1-neg 88.6%

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

      3. unsub-neg 88.6%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \frac{c}{b} - \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}}} \]

      4. mul-1-neg 88.6%

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

      5. distribute-neg-frac 88.6%

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

      6. associate-/l* 88.6%

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

      7. unpow2 88.6%

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

   6. Simplified 88.6%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-c}{b} - \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 86.4%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 4\right)} - b}{a \cdot 2} \leq -0.035:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\left(b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 4\right)\right) - b \cdot b}{b + \sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 4\right)}} \cdot \frac{0.5}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b} - \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 5: 85.4% accurate, 0.5× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 4\right)\\ t_1 := \sqrt{t_0}\\ \mathbf{if}\;\frac{t_1 - b}{a \cdot 2} \leq -0.035:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\frac{t_0 - b \cdot b}{b + t_1}}{a \cdot 2}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b} - \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0 (- (* b b) (* c (* a 4.0)))) (t_1 (sqrt t_0)))
   (if (<= (/ (- t_1 b) (* a 2.0)) -0.035)
     (/ (/ (- t_0 (* b b)) (+ b t_1)) (* a 2.0))
     (- (/ (- c) b) (/ (* c c) (/ (pow b 3.0) a))))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double t_0 = (b * b) - (c * (a * 4.0));
	double t_1 = sqrt(t_0);
	double tmp;
	if (((t_1 - b) / (a * 2.0)) <= -0.035) {
		tmp = ((t_0 - (b * b)) / (b + t_1)) / (a * 2.0);
	} else {
		tmp = (-c / b) - ((c * c) / (pow(b, 3.0) / a));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b, c)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8), intent (in) :: c
    real(8) :: t_0
    real(8) :: t_1
    real(8) :: tmp
    t_0 = (b * b) - (c * (a * 4.0d0))
    t_1 = sqrt(t_0)
    if (((t_1 - b) / (a * 2.0d0)) <= (-0.035d0)) then
        tmp = ((t_0 - (b * b)) / (b + t_1)) / (a * 2.0d0)
    else
        tmp = (-c / b) - ((c * c) / ((b ** 3.0d0) / a))
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double t_0 = (b * b) - (c * (a * 4.0));
	double t_1 = Math.sqrt(t_0);
	double tmp;
	if (((t_1 - b) / (a * 2.0)) <= -0.035) {
		tmp = ((t_0 - (b * b)) / (b + t_1)) / (a * 2.0);
	} else {
		tmp = (-c / b) - ((c * c) / (Math.pow(b, 3.0) / a));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	t_0 = (b * b) - (c * (a * 4.0))
	t_1 = math.sqrt(t_0)
	tmp = 0
	if ((t_1 - b) / (a * 2.0)) <= -0.035:
		tmp = ((t_0 - (b * b)) / (b + t_1)) / (a * 2.0)
	else:
		tmp = (-c / b) - ((c * c) / (math.pow(b, 3.0) / a))
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	t_0 = Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(c * Float64(a * 4.0)))
	t_1 = sqrt(t_0)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(Float64(t_1 - b) / Float64(a * 2.0)) <= -0.035)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(Float64(t_0 - Float64(b * b)) / Float64(b + t_1)) / Float64(a * 2.0));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(Float64(-c) / b) - Float64(Float64(c * c) / Float64((b ^ 3.0) / a)));
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	t_0 = (b * b) - (c * (a * 4.0));
	t_1 = sqrt(t_0);
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (((t_1 - b) / (a * 2.0)) <= -0.035)
		tmp = ((t_0 - (b * b)) / (b + t_1)) / (a * 2.0);
	else
		tmp = (-c / b) - ((c * c) / ((b ^ 3.0) / a));
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := Block[{t$95$0 = N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(c * N[(a * 4.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]}, Block[{t$95$1 = N[Sqrt[t$95$0], $MachinePrecision]}, If[LessEqual[N[(N[(t$95$1 - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * 2.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], -0.035], N[(N[(N[(t$95$0 - N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(b + t$95$1), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * 2.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(N[(c * c), $MachinePrecision] / N[(N[Power[b, 3.0], $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (/.f64 (+.f64 (neg.f64 b) (sqrt.f64 (-.f64 (*.f64 b b) (*.f64 (*.f64 4 a) c)))) (*.f64 2 a)) < -0.035000000000000003

   1. Initial program 79.2%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 79.2%

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

      2. +-commutative 79.2%

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

      3. unsub-neg 79.2%

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

      4. fma-neg 79.3%

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

      5. associate-*l* 79.3%

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

      6. *-commutative 79.3%

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

      7. distribute-rgt-neg-in 79.3%

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

      8. metadata-eval 79.3%

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

   3. Simplified 79.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \left(a \cdot c\right) \cdot -4\right)} - b}{a \cdot 2}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. fma-udef 79.2%

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

      2. *-commutative 79.2%

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

      3. metadata-eval 79.2%

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

      4. cancel-sign-sub-inv 79.2%

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

      5. associate-*l* 79.2%

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

      6. *-un-lft-identity 79.2%

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

      7. prod-diff 79.3%

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

   5. Applied egg-rr 79.1%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -\left(a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)\right) \cdot 1\right) + \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right), 1, \left(a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)\right) \cdot 1\right)}} - b}{a \cdot 2} \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-rgt-identity 79.1%

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

      2. fma-neg 78.9%

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

      3. fma-udef 78.9%

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

      4. *-rgt-identity 78.9%

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

      5. *-rgt-identity 78.9%

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

      6. associate--r- 79.2%

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

      7. associate--r+ 79.2%

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

      8. +-inverses 79.2%

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

      9. neg-sub0 79.2%

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

      10. associate-*r* 79.2%

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

      11. distribute-rgt-neg-in 79.2%

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

      12. metadata-eval 79.2%

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

      13. *-commutative 79.2%

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

      14. associate-*r* 79.2%

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

   7. Simplified 79.2%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\color{blue}{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 4\right)}} - b}{a \cdot 2} \]
   8. Step-by-step derivation

      1. flip-- 79.4%

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

      2. add-sqr-sqrt 81.1%

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

   9. Applied egg-rr 81.1%

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

   if -0.035000000000000003 < (/.f64 (+.f64 (neg.f64 b) (sqrt.f64 (-.f64 (*.f64 b b) (*.f64 (*.f64 4 a) c)))) (*.f64 2 a))

   1. Initial program 49.1%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. /-rgt-identity 49.1%

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

      2. metadata-eval 49.1%

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

      3. associate-/l* 49.1%

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

      4. associate-*r/ 49.1%

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

      5. +-commutative 49.1%

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

      6. unsub-neg 49.1%

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

      7. fma-neg 49.2%

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

      8. associate-*l* 49.2%

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

      9. *-commutative 49.2%

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

      10. distribute-rgt-neg-in 49.2%

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

      11. metadata-eval 49.2%

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

      12. associate-/r* 49.2%

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

      13. metadata-eval 49.2%

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

      14. metadata-eval 49.2%

          \[\leadsto \left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \left(a \cdot c\right) \cdot -4\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{\color{blue}{0.5}}{a} \]

   3. Simplified 49.2%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \left(a \cdot c\right) \cdot -4\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{a}} \]

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 88.6%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}} + -1 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
   5. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative 88.6%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \frac{c}{b} + -1 \cdot \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}}} \]

      2. mul-1-neg 88.6%

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

      3. unsub-neg 88.6%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \frac{c}{b} - \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}}} \]

      4. mul-1-neg 88.6%

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

      5. distribute-neg-frac 88.6%

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

      6. associate-/l* 88.6%

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

      7. unpow2 88.6%

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

   6. Simplified 88.6%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-c}{b} - \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 86.4%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 4\right)} - b}{a \cdot 2} \leq -0.035:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\frac{\left(b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 4\right)\right) - b \cdot b}{b + \sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 4\right)}}}{a \cdot 2}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b} - \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 6: 84.7% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 1.36:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 4\right)} - b\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b} - \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b 1.36)
   (* (/ 0.5 a) (- (sqrt (- (* b b) (* c (* a 4.0)))) b))
   (- (/ (- c) b) (/ (* c c) (/ (pow b 3.0) a)))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 1.36) {
		tmp = (0.5 / a) * (sqrt(((b * b) - (c * (a * 4.0)))) - b);
	} else {
		tmp = (-c / b) - ((c * c) / (pow(b, 3.0) / a));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b, c)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8), intent (in) :: c
    real(8) :: tmp
    if (b <= 1.36d0) then
        tmp = (0.5d0 / a) * (sqrt(((b * b) - (c * (a * 4.0d0)))) - b)
    else
        tmp = (-c / b) - ((c * c) / ((b ** 3.0d0) / a))
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 1.36) {
		tmp = (0.5 / a) * (Math.sqrt(((b * b) - (c * (a * 4.0)))) - b);
	} else {
		tmp = (-c / b) - ((c * c) / (Math.pow(b, 3.0) / a));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= 1.36:
		tmp = (0.5 / a) * (math.sqrt(((b * b) - (c * (a * 4.0)))) - b)
	else:
		tmp = (-c / b) - ((c * c) / (math.pow(b, 3.0) / a))
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= 1.36)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(0.5 / a) * Float64(sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(c * Float64(a * 4.0)))) - b));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(Float64(-c) / b) - Float64(Float64(c * c) / Float64((b ^ 3.0) / a)));
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= 1.36)
		tmp = (0.5 / a) * (sqrt(((b * b) - (c * (a * 4.0)))) - b);
	else
		tmp = (-c / b) - ((c * c) / ((b ^ 3.0) / a));
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, 1.36], N[(N[(0.5 / a), $MachinePrecision] * N[(N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(c * N[(a * 4.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(N[(c * c), $MachinePrecision] / N[(N[Power[b, 3.0], $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < 1.3600000000000001

   1. Initial program 84.3%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. /-rgt-identity 84.3%

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

      2. metadata-eval 84.3%

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

      3. associate-/l* 84.3%

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

      4. associate-*r/ 84.3%

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

      5. +-commutative 84.3%

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

      6. unsub-neg 84.3%

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

      7. fma-neg 84.3%

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

      8. associate-*l* 84.3%

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

      9. *-commutative 84.3%

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

      10. distribute-rgt-neg-in 84.3%

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

      11. metadata-eval 84.3%

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

      12. associate-/r* 84.3%

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

      13. metadata-eval 84.3%

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

      14. metadata-eval 84.3%

          \[\leadsto \left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \left(a \cdot c\right) \cdot -4\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{\color{blue}{0.5}}{a} \]

   3. Simplified 84.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \left(a \cdot c\right) \cdot -4\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{a}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. fma-udef 84.3%

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

      2. *-commutative 84.3%

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

      3. metadata-eval 84.3%

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

      4. cancel-sign-sub-inv 84.3%

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

      5. associate-*l* 84.3%

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

      6. *-un-lft-identity 84.3%

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

      7. prod-diff 84.3%

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

   5. Applied egg-rr 84.2%

      \[\leadsto \left(\sqrt{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -\left(a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)\right) \cdot 1\right) + \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right), 1, \left(a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)\right) \cdot 1\right)}} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{a} \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-rgt-identity 84.2%

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

      2. fma-neg 83.8%

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

      3. fma-udef 83.8%

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

      4. *-rgt-identity 83.8%

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

      5. *-rgt-identity 83.8%

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

      6. associate--r- 84.3%

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

      7. associate--r+ 84.3%

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

      8. +-inverses 84.3%

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

      9. neg-sub0 84.3%

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

      10. associate-*r* 84.3%

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

      11. distribute-rgt-neg-in 84.3%

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

      12. metadata-eval 84.3%

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

      13. *-commutative 84.3%

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

      14. associate-*r* 84.3%

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

   7. Simplified 84.3%

      \[\leadsto \left(\sqrt{\color{blue}{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 4\right)}} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{a} \]

   if 1.3600000000000001 < b

   1. Initial program 52.3%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. /-rgt-identity 52.3%

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

      2. metadata-eval 52.3%

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

      3. associate-/l* 52.3%

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

      4. associate-*r/ 52.3%

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

      5. +-commutative 52.3%

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

      6. unsub-neg 52.3%

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

      7. fma-neg 52.4%

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

      8. associate-*l* 52.4%

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

      9. *-commutative 52.4%

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

      10. distribute-rgt-neg-in 52.4%

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

      11. metadata-eval 52.4%

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

      12. associate-/r* 52.4%

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

      13. metadata-eval 52.4%

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

      14. metadata-eval 52.4%

          \[\leadsto \left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \left(a \cdot c\right) \cdot -4\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{\color{blue}{0.5}}{a} \]

   3. Simplified 52.4%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \left(a \cdot c\right) \cdot -4\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{a}} \]

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 86.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}} + -1 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
   5. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative 86.3%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \frac{c}{b} + -1 \cdot \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}}} \]

      2. mul-1-neg 86.3%

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

      3. unsub-neg 86.3%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \frac{c}{b} - \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}}} \]

      4. mul-1-neg 86.3%

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

      5. distribute-neg-frac 86.3%

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

      6. associate-/l* 86.3%

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

      7. unpow2 86.3%

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

   6. Simplified 86.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-c}{b} - \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 86.0%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 1.36:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 4\right)} - b\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b} - \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 7: 81.4% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{-c}{b} - \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (- (/ (- c) b) (/ (* c c) (/ (pow b 3.0) a))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (-c / b) - ((c * c) / (pow(b, 3.0) / a));
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b, c)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8), intent (in) :: c
    code = (-c / b) - ((c * c) / ((b ** 3.0d0) / a))
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (-c / b) - ((c * c) / (Math.pow(b, 3.0) / a));
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	return (-c / b) - ((c * c) / (math.pow(b, 3.0) / a))

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	return Float64(Float64(Float64(-c) / b) - Float64(Float64(c * c) / Float64((b ^ 3.0) / a)))
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = (-c / b) - ((c * c) / ((b ^ 3.0) / a));
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := N[(N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(N[(c * c), $MachinePrecision] / N[(N[Power[b, 3.0], $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 57.8%

   \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
2. Step-by-step derivation

   1. /-rgt-identity 57.8%

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

   2. metadata-eval 57.8%

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

   3. associate-/l* 57.8%

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

   4. associate-*r/ 57.8%

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

   5. +-commutative 57.8%

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

   6. unsub-neg 57.8%

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

   7. fma-neg 57.9%

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

   8. associate-*l* 57.9%

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

   9. *-commutative 57.9%

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

   10. distribute-rgt-neg-in 57.9%

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

   11. metadata-eval 57.9%

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

   12. associate-/r* 57.9%

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

   13. metadata-eval 57.9%

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

   14. metadata-eval 57.9%

       \[\leadsto \left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \left(a \cdot c\right) \cdot -4\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{\color{blue}{0.5}}{a} \]

3. Simplified 57.9%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \left(a \cdot c\right) \cdot -4\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{a}} \]

4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 81.4%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}} + -1 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
5. Step-by-step derivation

   1. +-commutative 81.4%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \frac{c}{b} + -1 \cdot \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}}} \]

   2. mul-1-neg 81.4%

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

   3. unsub-neg 81.4%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \frac{c}{b} - \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}}} \]

   4. mul-1-neg 81.4%

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

   5. distribute-neg-frac 81.4%

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

   6. associate-/l* 81.4%

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

   7. unpow2 81.4%

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

6. Simplified 81.4%

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

7. Final simplification 81.4%

   \[\leadsto \frac{-c}{b} - \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}} \]

Alternative 8: 64.1% accurate, 29.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{-c}{b} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c) :precision binary64 (/ (- c) b))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return -c / b;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b, c)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8), intent (in) :: c
    code = -c / b
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return -c / b;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	return -c / b

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	return Float64(Float64(-c) / b)
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = -c / b;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 57.8%

   \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
2. Step-by-step derivation

   1. /-rgt-identity 57.8%

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

   2. metadata-eval 57.8%

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

   3. associate-/l* 57.8%

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

   4. associate-*r/ 57.8%

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

   5. +-commutative 57.8%

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

   6. unsub-neg 57.8%

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

   7. fma-neg 57.9%

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

   8. associate-*l* 57.9%

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

   9. *-commutative 57.9%

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

   10. distribute-rgt-neg-in 57.9%

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

   11. metadata-eval 57.9%

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

   12. associate-/r* 57.9%

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

   13. metadata-eval 57.9%

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

   14. metadata-eval 57.9%

       \[\leadsto \left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \left(a \cdot c\right) \cdot -4\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{\color{blue}{0.5}}{a} \]

3. Simplified 57.9%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \left(a \cdot c\right) \cdot -4\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{a}} \]

4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 62.5%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
5. Step-by-step derivation

   1. mul-1-neg 62.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-\frac{c}{b}} \]

   2. distribute-neg-frac 62.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-c}{b}} \]

6. Simplified 62.5%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-c}{b}} \]

7. Final simplification 62.5%

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2023185 
(FPCore (a b c)
  :name "Quadratic roots, narrow range"
  :precision binary64
  :pre (and (and (and (< 1.0536712127723509e-8 a) (< a 94906265.62425156)) (and (< 1.0536712127723509e-8 b) (< b 94906265.62425156))) (and (< 1.0536712127723509e-8 c) (< c 94906265.62425156)))
  (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 4.0 a) c)))) (* 2.0 a)))