Cubic critical, narrow range

Percentage Accurate: 55.3% → 99.5%

Time: 15.0s

Alternatives: 8

Speedup: 23.2×

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

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

FPCore

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

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c)))) / (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 = (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0d0 * a) * c)))) / (3.0d0 * a)
end function

Java

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

Python

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

Julia

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

MATLAB

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

Wolfram

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

Initial Program: 55.3% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

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

FPCore

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

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c)))) / (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 = (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0d0 * a) * c)))) / (3.0d0 * a)
end function

Java

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

Python

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

Julia

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

MATLAB

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

Wolfram

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

Alternative 1: 99.5% accurate, 0.5× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\frac{c \cdot \left(-a\right)}{a}}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (/ (/ (* c (- a)) a) (+ b (sqrt (fma c (* a -3.0) (* b b))))))

C

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

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	return Float64(Float64(Float64(c * Float64(-a)) / a) / Float64(b + sqrt(fma(c, Float64(a * -3.0), Float64(b * b)))))
end

Wolfram

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

Derivation

1. Initial program 55.0%

   \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{3 \cdot a} \]
2. Step-by-step derivation

   1. neg-sub0 55.0%

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

   2. associate-+l- 55.0%

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

   3. sub0-neg 55.0%

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

   4. neg-mul-1 55.0%

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

   5. associate-*r/ 55.0%

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

   6. *-commutative 55.0%

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

   7. metadata-eval 55.0%

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

   8. metadata-eval 55.0%

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

   9. times-frac 55.0%

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

   10. *-commutative 55.0%

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

   11. times-frac 54.9%

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

3. Simplified 55.0%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}} \]
4. Step-by-step derivation

   1. expm1-log1p-u 55.0%

      \[\leadsto \left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} - b\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right)} \]

5. Applied egg-rr 55.0%

   \[\leadsto \left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} - b\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right)} \]
6. Step-by-step derivation

   1. flip-- 54.8%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} \cdot \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} - b \cdot b}{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} + b}} \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right) \]

   2. add-sqr-sqrt 56.0%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} - b \cdot b}{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} + b} \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right) \]

7. Applied egg-rr 56.0%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right) - b \cdot b}{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} + b}} \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right) \]
8. Step-by-step derivation

   1. *-commutative 56.0%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot -3\right) \cdot a}\right) - b \cdot b}{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} + b} \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right) \]

   2. *-commutative 56.0%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \color{blue}{\left(-3 \cdot c\right)} \cdot a\right) - b \cdot b}{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} + b} \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right) \]

   3. associate-*r* 56.0%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \color{blue}{-3 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)}\right) - b \cdot b}{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} + b} \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right) \]

   4. fma-def 56.3%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left(b \cdot b + -3 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)\right)} - b \cdot b}{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} + b} \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right) \]

   5. +-commutative 56.3%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left(-3 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right) + b \cdot b\right)} - b \cdot b}{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} + b} \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right) \]

   6. metadata-eval 56.3%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\left(\color{blue}{\left(-3\right)} \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right) + b \cdot b\right) - b \cdot b}{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} + b} \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right) \]

   7. distribute-lft-neg-in 56.3%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\left(\color{blue}{\left(-3 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)\right)} + b \cdot b\right) - b \cdot b}{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} + b} \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right) \]

   8. *-commutative 56.3%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\left(\left(-\color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right) \cdot 3}\right) + b \cdot b\right) - b \cdot b}{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} + b} \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right) \]

   9. associate-*r* 56.3%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\left(\left(-\color{blue}{c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)}\right) + b \cdot b\right) - b \cdot b}{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} + b} \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right) \]

   10. distribute-rgt-neg-in 56.3%

       \[\leadsto \frac{\left(\color{blue}{c \cdot \left(-a \cdot 3\right)} + b \cdot b\right) - b \cdot b}{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} + b} \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right) \]

   11. distribute-rgt-neg-in 56.3%

       \[\leadsto \frac{\left(c \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot \left(-3\right)\right)} + b \cdot b\right) - b \cdot b}{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} + b} \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right) \]

   12. metadata-eval 56.3%

       \[\leadsto \frac{\left(c \cdot \left(a \cdot \color{blue}{-3}\right) + b \cdot b\right) - b \cdot b}{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} + b} \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right) \]

   13. *-commutative 56.3%

       \[\leadsto \frac{\left(c \cdot \color{blue}{\left(-3 \cdot a\right)} + b \cdot b\right) - b \cdot b}{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} + b} \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right) \]

   14. fma-def 56.3%

       \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, -3 \cdot a, b \cdot b\right)} - b \cdot b}{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} + b} \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right) \]

   15. *-commutative 56.3%

       \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, \color{blue}{a \cdot -3}, b \cdot b\right) - b \cdot b}{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} + b} \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right) \]

   16. +-commutative 56.3%

       \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right) - b \cdot b}{\color{blue}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)}}} \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right) \]

   17. *-commutative 56.3%

       \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right) - b \cdot b}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot -3\right) \cdot a}\right)}} \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right) \]

   18. *-commutative 56.3%

       \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right) - b \cdot b}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \color{blue}{\left(-3 \cdot c\right)} \cdot a\right)}} \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right) \]

   19. associate-*r* 56.3%

       \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right) - b \cdot b}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \color{blue}{-3 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)}\right)}} \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right) \]

9. Simplified 56.3%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right) - b \cdot b}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}}} \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right) \]
10. Step-by-step derivation

    1. sub-neg 56.3%

       \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right) + \left(-b \cdot b\right)}}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}} \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right) \]

11. Applied egg-rr 56.3%

    \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right) + \left(-b \cdot b\right)}}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}} \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right) \]
12. Step-by-step derivation

    1. fma-udef 56.3%

       \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left(c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right) + b \cdot b\right)} + \left(-b \cdot b\right)}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}} \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right) \]

    2. associate-+l+ 98.2%

       \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right) + \left(b \cdot b + \left(-b \cdot b\right)\right)}}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}} \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right) \]

    3. sub-neg 98.2%

       \[\leadsto \frac{c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right) + \color{blue}{\left(b \cdot b - b \cdot b\right)}}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}} \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right) \]

    4. +-inverses 98.2%

       \[\leadsto \frac{c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right) + \color{blue}{0}}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}} \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right) \]

13. Simplified 98.2%

    \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right) + 0}}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}} \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right) \]
14. Step-by-step derivation

    1. associate-*l/ 98.2%

       \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right) + 0\right) \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right)}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}}} \]

    2. +-rgt-identity 98.2%

       \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left(c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right)\right)} \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right)}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}} \]

    3. associate-*r* 98.2%

       \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left(\left(c \cdot a\right) \cdot -3\right)} \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right)}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}} \]

    4. *-commutative 98.2%

       \[\leadsto \frac{\left(\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot c\right)} \cdot -3\right) \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right)}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}} \]

    5. associate-*r* 98.2%

       \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} \cdot \mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{log1p}\left(\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\right)\right)}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}} \]

    6. expm1-log1p-u 99.1%

       \[\leadsto \frac{\left(a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}}}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}} \]

15. Applied egg-rr 99.1%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right) \cdot \frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}}} \]
16. Step-by-step derivation

    1. associate-*r/ 99.2%

       \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\left(a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right) \cdot 0.3333333333333333}{a}}}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}} \]

    2. associate-*r* 99.2%

       \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot c\right) \cdot -3\right)} \cdot 0.3333333333333333}{a}}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}} \]

    3. *-commutative 99.2%

       \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\left(\color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right)} \cdot -3\right) \cdot 0.3333333333333333}{a}}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}} \]

    4. associate-*l* 99.5%

       \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(-3 \cdot 0.3333333333333333\right)}}{a}}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}} \]

    5. metadata-eval 99.5%

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

17. Simplified 99.5%

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

18. Final simplification 99.5%

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

Alternative 2: 85.4% accurate, 0.4× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3} \leq -0.02:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{1}{\frac{a}{0.3333333333333333}}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375, \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}, -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (/ (- (sqrt (- (* b b) (* c (* a 3.0)))) b) (* a 3.0)) -0.02)
   (* (- (sqrt (fma b b (* a (* c -3.0)))) b) (/ 1.0 (/ a 0.3333333333333333)))
   (fma -0.375 (/ (* c c) (/ (pow b 3.0) a)) (* -0.5 (/ c b)))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (((sqrt(((b * b) - (c * (a * 3.0)))) - b) / (a * 3.0)) <= -0.02) {
		tmp = (sqrt(fma(b, b, (a * (c * -3.0)))) - b) * (1.0 / (a / 0.3333333333333333));
	} else {
		tmp = fma(-0.375, ((c * c) / (pow(b, 3.0) / a)), (-0.5 * (c / b)));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(Float64(sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(c * Float64(a * 3.0)))) - b) / Float64(a * 3.0)) <= -0.02)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(sqrt(fma(b, b, Float64(a * Float64(c * -3.0)))) - b) * Float64(1.0 / Float64(a / 0.3333333333333333)));
	else
		tmp = fma(-0.375, Float64(Float64(c * c) / Float64((b ^ 3.0) / a)), Float64(-0.5 * Float64(c / b)));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(c * N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], -0.02], N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(b * b + N[(a * N[(c * -3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] * N[(1.0 / N[(a / 0.3333333333333333), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(-0.375 * N[(N[(c * c), $MachinePrecision] / N[(N[Power[b, 3.0], $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[(-0.5 * N[(c / b), $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 3 a) c)))) (*.f64 3 a)) < -0.0200000000000000004

   1. Initial program 84.6%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{3 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. neg-sub0 84.6%

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

      2. associate-+l- 84.6%

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

      3. sub0-neg 84.6%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 84.6%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 84.6%

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

      6. *-commutative 84.6%

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

      7. metadata-eval 84.6%

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

      8. metadata-eval 84.6%

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

      9. times-frac 84.6%

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

      10. *-commutative 84.6%

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

      11. times-frac 84.6%

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

   3. Simplified 84.6%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}} \]
   4. Step-by-step derivation

      1. clear-num 84.7%

         \[\leadsto \left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} - b\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{1}{\frac{a}{0.3333333333333333}}} \]

      2. inv-pow 84.7%

         \[\leadsto \left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} - b\right) \cdot \color{blue}{{\left(\frac{a}{0.3333333333333333}\right)}^{-1}} \]

   5. Applied egg-rr 84.7%

      \[\leadsto \left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} - b\right) \cdot \color{blue}{{\left(\frac{a}{0.3333333333333333}\right)}^{-1}} \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

      1. unpow-1 84.7%

         \[\leadsto \left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} - b\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{1}{\frac{a}{0.3333333333333333}}} \]

   7. Simplified 84.7%

      \[\leadsto \left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} - b\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{1}{\frac{a}{0.3333333333333333}}} \]

   if -0.0200000000000000004 < (/.f64 (+.f64 (neg.f64 b) (sqrt.f64 (-.f64 (*.f64 b b) (*.f64 (*.f64 3 a) c)))) (*.f64 3 a))

   1. Initial program 44.7%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{3 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. neg-sub0 44.7%

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

      2. associate-+l- 44.7%

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

      3. sub0-neg 44.7%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 44.7%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 44.7%

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

      6. metadata-eval 44.7%

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

      7. metadata-eval 44.7%

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

      8. times-frac 44.7%

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

      9. *-commutative 44.7%

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

      10. times-frac 44.7%

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

      11. associate-*l/ 44.7%

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

   3. Simplified 44.8%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 90.4%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b} + -0.375 \cdot \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}}} \]
   5. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative 90.4%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.375 \cdot \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}} + -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]

      2. fma-def 90.4%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375, \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}}, -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right)} \]

      3. associate-/l* 90.4%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375, \color{blue}{\frac{{c}^{2}}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}}, -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right) \]

      4. unpow2 90.4%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375, \frac{\color{blue}{c \cdot c}}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}, -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right) \]

   6. Simplified 90.4%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375, \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}, -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right)} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 88.9%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3} \leq -0.02:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{1}{\frac{a}{0.3333333333333333}}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375, \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}, -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right)\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 3: 85.4% accurate, 0.4× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3} \leq -0.02:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right)\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375, \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}, -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (/ (- (sqrt (- (* b b) (* c (* a 3.0)))) b) (* a 3.0)) -0.02)
   (/ (- (sqrt (fma b b (* c (* a -3.0)))) b) (* a 3.0))
   (fma -0.375 (/ (* c c) (/ (pow b 3.0) a)) (* -0.5 (/ c b)))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (((sqrt(((b * b) - (c * (a * 3.0)))) - b) / (a * 3.0)) <= -0.02) {
		tmp = (sqrt(fma(b, b, (c * (a * -3.0)))) - b) / (a * 3.0);
	} else {
		tmp = fma(-0.375, ((c * c) / (pow(b, 3.0) / a)), (-0.5 * (c / b)));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(Float64(sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(c * Float64(a * 3.0)))) - b) / Float64(a * 3.0)) <= -0.02)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(sqrt(fma(b, b, Float64(c * Float64(a * -3.0)))) - b) / Float64(a * 3.0));
	else
		tmp = fma(-0.375, Float64(Float64(c * c) / Float64((b ^ 3.0) / a)), Float64(-0.5 * Float64(c / b)));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(c * N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], -0.02], N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(b * b + N[(c * N[(a * -3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(-0.375 * N[(N[(c * c), $MachinePrecision] / N[(N[Power[b, 3.0], $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[(-0.5 * N[(c / b), $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 3 a) c)))) (*.f64 3 a)) < -0.0200000000000000004

   1. Initial program 84.6%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{3 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. neg-sub0 84.6%

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

      2. associate-+l- 84.6%

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

      3. sub0-neg 84.6%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 84.6%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 84.6%

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

      6. metadata-eval 84.6%

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

      7. metadata-eval 84.6%

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

      8. times-frac 84.6%

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

      9. *-commutative 84.6%

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

      10. times-frac 84.6%

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

      11. associate-*l/ 84.6%

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

   3. Simplified 84.7%

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

   if -0.0200000000000000004 < (/.f64 (+.f64 (neg.f64 b) (sqrt.f64 (-.f64 (*.f64 b b) (*.f64 (*.f64 3 a) c)))) (*.f64 3 a))

   1. Initial program 44.7%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{3 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. neg-sub0 44.7%

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

      2. associate-+l- 44.7%

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

      3. sub0-neg 44.7%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 44.7%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 44.7%

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

      6. metadata-eval 44.7%

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

      7. metadata-eval 44.7%

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

      8. times-frac 44.7%

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

      9. *-commutative 44.7%

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

      10. times-frac 44.7%

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

      11. associate-*l/ 44.7%

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

   3. Simplified 44.8%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 90.4%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b} + -0.375 \cdot \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}}} \]
   5. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative 90.4%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.375 \cdot \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}} + -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]

      2. fma-def 90.4%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375, \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}}, -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right)} \]

      3. associate-/l* 90.4%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375, \color{blue}{\frac{{c}^{2}}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}}, -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right) \]

      4. unpow2 90.4%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375, \frac{\color{blue}{c \cdot c}}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}, -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right) \]

   6. Simplified 90.4%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375, \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}, -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right)} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 88.9%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3} \leq -0.02:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right)\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375, \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}, -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right)\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 4: 76.6% accurate, 0.4× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3} \leq -9.8 \cdot 10^{-6}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.3333333333333333 \cdot \frac{b - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)}}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (/ (- (sqrt (- (* b b) (* c (* a 3.0)))) b) (* a 3.0)) -9.8e-6)
   (* -0.3333333333333333 (/ (- b (sqrt (fma b b (* a (* c -3.0))))) a))
   (* -0.5 (/ c b))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (((sqrt(((b * b) - (c * (a * 3.0)))) - b) / (a * 3.0)) <= -9.8e-6) {
		tmp = -0.3333333333333333 * ((b - sqrt(fma(b, b, (a * (c * -3.0))))) / a);
	} else {
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(Float64(sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(c * Float64(a * 3.0)))) - b) / Float64(a * 3.0)) <= -9.8e-6)
		tmp = Float64(-0.3333333333333333 * Float64(Float64(b - sqrt(fma(b, b, Float64(a * Float64(c * -3.0))))) / a));
	else
		tmp = Float64(-0.5 * Float64(c / b));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(c * N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], -9.8e-6], N[(-0.3333333333333333 * N[(N[(b - N[Sqrt[N[(b * b + N[(a * N[(c * -3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(-0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (/.f64 (+.f64 (neg.f64 b) (sqrt.f64 (-.f64 (*.f64 b b) (*.f64 (*.f64 3 a) c)))) (*.f64 3 a)) < -9.79999999999999934e-6

   1. Initial program 76.3%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{3 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. /-rgt-identity 76.3%

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

      2. metadata-eval 76.3%

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

      3. associate-/l* 76.3%

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

      4. associate-*r/ 76.3%

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

      5. *-commutative 76.3%

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

      6. associate-*l/ 76.3%

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

      7. associate-*r/ 76.3%

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

      8. metadata-eval 76.3%

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

      9. metadata-eval 76.3%

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

      10. times-frac 76.3%

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

      11. neg-mul-1 76.3%

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

      12. distribute-rgt-neg-in 76.3%

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

      13. times-frac 76.3%

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

      14. metadata-eval 76.3%

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.3333333333333333} \cdot \frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{-a} \]

      15. neg-mul-1 76.3%

          \[\leadsto -0.3333333333333333 \cdot \frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{\color{blue}{-1 \cdot a}} \]

   3. Simplified 76.4%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.3333333333333333 \cdot \frac{b - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)}}{a}} \]

   if -9.79999999999999934e-6 < (/.f64 (+.f64 (neg.f64 b) (sqrt.f64 (-.f64 (*.f64 b b) (*.f64 (*.f64 3 a) c)))) (*.f64 3 a))

   1. Initial program 36.1%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{3 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. neg-sub0 36.1%

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

      2. associate-+l- 36.1%

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

      3. sub0-neg 36.1%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 36.1%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 36.1%

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

      6. metadata-eval 36.1%

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

      7. metadata-eval 36.1%

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

      8. times-frac 36.1%

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

      9. *-commutative 36.1%

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

      10. times-frac 36.1%

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

      11. associate-*l/ 36.1%

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

   3. Simplified 36.2%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 80.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 78.5%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3} \leq -9.8 \cdot 10^{-6}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.3333333333333333 \cdot \frac{b - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)}}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 5: 76.6% accurate, 0.4× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3} \leq -9.8 \cdot 10^{-6}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right)\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (/ (- (sqrt (- (* b b) (* c (* a 3.0)))) b) (* a 3.0)) -9.8e-6)
   (/ (- (sqrt (fma b b (* c (* a -3.0)))) b) (* a 3.0))
   (* -0.5 (/ c b))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (((sqrt(((b * b) - (c * (a * 3.0)))) - b) / (a * 3.0)) <= -9.8e-6) {
		tmp = (sqrt(fma(b, b, (c * (a * -3.0)))) - b) / (a * 3.0);
	} else {
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(Float64(sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(c * Float64(a * 3.0)))) - b) / Float64(a * 3.0)) <= -9.8e-6)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(sqrt(fma(b, b, Float64(c * Float64(a * -3.0)))) - b) / Float64(a * 3.0));
	else
		tmp = Float64(-0.5 * Float64(c / b));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(c * N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], -9.8e-6], N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(b * b + N[(c * N[(a * -3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(-0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (/.f64 (+.f64 (neg.f64 b) (sqrt.f64 (-.f64 (*.f64 b b) (*.f64 (*.f64 3 a) c)))) (*.f64 3 a)) < -9.79999999999999934e-6

   1. Initial program 76.3%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{3 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. neg-sub0 76.3%

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

      2. associate-+l- 76.3%

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

      3. sub0-neg 76.3%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 76.3%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 76.3%

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

      6. metadata-eval 76.3%

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

      7. metadata-eval 76.3%

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

      8. times-frac 76.3%

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

      9. *-commutative 76.3%

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

      10. times-frac 76.3%

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

      11. associate-*l/ 76.3%

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

   3. Simplified 76.5%

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

   if -9.79999999999999934e-6 < (/.f64 (+.f64 (neg.f64 b) (sqrt.f64 (-.f64 (*.f64 b b) (*.f64 (*.f64 3 a) c)))) (*.f64 3 a))

   1. Initial program 36.1%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{3 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. neg-sub0 36.1%

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

      2. associate-+l- 36.1%

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

      3. sub0-neg 36.1%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 36.1%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 36.1%

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

      6. metadata-eval 36.1%

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

      7. metadata-eval 36.1%

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

      8. times-frac 36.1%

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

      9. *-commutative 36.1%

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

      10. times-frac 36.1%

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

      11. associate-*l/ 36.1%

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

   3. Simplified 36.2%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 80.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 78.5%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3} \leq -9.8 \cdot 10^{-6}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right)\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 6: 76.5% accurate, 0.5× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := \sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} - b\\ \mathbf{if}\;\frac{t_0}{a \cdot 3} \leq -9.8 \cdot 10^{-6}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a} \cdot t_0\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0 (- (sqrt (- (* b b) (* c (* a 3.0)))) b)))
   (if (<= (/ t_0 (* a 3.0)) -9.8e-6)
     (* (/ 0.3333333333333333 a) t_0)
     (* -0.5 (/ c b)))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double t_0 = sqrt(((b * b) - (c * (a * 3.0)))) - b;
	double tmp;
	if ((t_0 / (a * 3.0)) <= -9.8e-6) {
		tmp = (0.3333333333333333 / a) * t_0;
	} else {
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
	}
	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 = sqrt(((b * b) - (c * (a * 3.0d0)))) - b
    if ((t_0 / (a * 3.0d0)) <= (-9.8d-6)) then
        tmp = (0.3333333333333333d0 / a) * t_0
    else
        tmp = (-0.5d0) * (c / b)
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double t_0 = Math.sqrt(((b * b) - (c * (a * 3.0)))) - b;
	double tmp;
	if ((t_0 / (a * 3.0)) <= -9.8e-6) {
		tmp = (0.3333333333333333 / a) * t_0;
	} else {
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	t_0 = math.sqrt(((b * b) - (c * (a * 3.0)))) - b
	tmp = 0
	if (t_0 / (a * 3.0)) <= -9.8e-6:
		tmp = (0.3333333333333333 / a) * t_0
	else:
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b)
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	t_0 = Float64(sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(c * Float64(a * 3.0)))) - b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(t_0 / Float64(a * 3.0)) <= -9.8e-6)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(0.3333333333333333 / a) * t_0);
	else
		tmp = Float64(-0.5 * Float64(c / b));
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	t_0 = sqrt(((b * b) - (c * (a * 3.0)))) - b;
	tmp = 0.0;
	if ((t_0 / (a * 3.0)) <= -9.8e-6)
		tmp = (0.3333333333333333 / a) * t_0;
	else
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := Block[{t$95$0 = N[(N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(c * N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision]}, If[LessEqual[N[(t$95$0 / N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], -9.8e-6], N[(N[(0.3333333333333333 / a), $MachinePrecision] * t$95$0), $MachinePrecision], N[(-0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (/.f64 (+.f64 (neg.f64 b) (sqrt.f64 (-.f64 (*.f64 b b) (*.f64 (*.f64 3 a) c)))) (*.f64 3 a)) < -9.79999999999999934e-6

   1. Initial program 76.3%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{3 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative 76.3%

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

      2. add-sqr-sqrt 75.0%

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

      3. fma-def 75.3%

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

      4. *-commutative 75.3%

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

      5. *-commutative 75.3%

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

      6. *-commutative 75.3%

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

      7. *-commutative 75.3%

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

   3. Applied egg-rr 75.3%

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

      1. div-inv 75.3%

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

      2. fma-udef 75.0%

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

      3. add-sqr-sqrt 76.3%

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

      4. *-commutative 76.3%

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

      5. metadata-eval 76.3%

         \[\leadsto \left(\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} + \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \frac{1}{a \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{1}{0.3333333333333333}}} \]

      6. div-inv 76.3%

         \[\leadsto \left(\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} + \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{a}{0.3333333333333333}}} \]

      7. clear-num 76.3%

         \[\leadsto \left(\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} + \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}} \]

   5. Applied egg-rr 76.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} + \left(-b\right)\right) \cdot \frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}} \]

   if -9.79999999999999934e-6 < (/.f64 (+.f64 (neg.f64 b) (sqrt.f64 (-.f64 (*.f64 b b) (*.f64 (*.f64 3 a) c)))) (*.f64 3 a))

   1. Initial program 36.1%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{3 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. neg-sub0 36.1%

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

      2. associate-+l- 36.1%

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

      3. sub0-neg 36.1%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 36.1%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 36.1%

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

      6. metadata-eval 36.1%

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

      7. metadata-eval 36.1%

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

      8. times-frac 36.1%

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

      9. *-commutative 36.1%

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

      10. times-frac 36.1%

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

      11. associate-*l/ 36.1%

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

   3. Simplified 36.2%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 80.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 78.4%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3} \leq -9.8 \cdot 10^{-6}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{0.3333333333333333}{a} \cdot \left(\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} - b\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 7: 73.7% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 5200:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b 5200.0)
   (/ (- (sqrt (- (* b b) (* c (* a 3.0)))) b) (* a 3.0))
   (* -0.5 (/ c b))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 5200.0) {
		tmp = (sqrt(((b * b) - (c * (a * 3.0)))) - b) / (a * 3.0);
	} else {
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
	}
	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 <= 5200.0d0) then
        tmp = (sqrt(((b * b) - (c * (a * 3.0d0)))) - b) / (a * 3.0d0)
    else
        tmp = (-0.5d0) * (c / b)
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 5200.0) {
		tmp = (Math.sqrt(((b * b) - (c * (a * 3.0)))) - b) / (a * 3.0);
	} else {
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= 5200.0:
		tmp = (math.sqrt(((b * b) - (c * (a * 3.0)))) - b) / (a * 3.0)
	else:
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b)
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= 5200.0)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(c * Float64(a * 3.0)))) - b) / Float64(a * 3.0));
	else
		tmp = Float64(-0.5 * Float64(c / b));
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= 5200.0)
		tmp = (sqrt(((b * b) - (c * (a * 3.0)))) - b) / (a * 3.0);
	else
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, 5200.0], N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(c * N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(-0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < 5200

   1. Initial program 72.6%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{3 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative 72.6%

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

      2. add-sqr-sqrt 71.5%

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

      3. fma-def 71.8%

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

      4. *-commutative 71.8%

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

      5. *-commutative 71.8%

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

      6. *-commutative 71.8%

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

      7. *-commutative 71.8%

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

   3. Applied egg-rr 71.8%

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

      1. log1p-expm1-u 67.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(\mathsf{expm1}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\sqrt{\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)}}, \sqrt{\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)}}, -b\right)\right)\right)}}{3 \cdot a} \]

      2. fma-udef 67.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{log1p}\left(\mathsf{expm1}\left(\color{blue}{\sqrt{\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)}} \cdot \sqrt{\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)}} + \left(-b\right)}\right)\right)}{3 \cdot a} \]

      3. add-sqr-sqrt 68.6%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{log1p}\left(\mathsf{expm1}\left(\color{blue}{\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)}} + \left(-b\right)\right)\right)}{3 \cdot a} \]

   5. Applied egg-rr 68.6%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(\mathsf{expm1}\left(\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} + \left(-b\right)\right)\right)}}{3 \cdot a} \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

      1. div-inv 68.6%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{log1p}\left(\mathsf{expm1}\left(\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} + \left(-b\right)\right)\right) \cdot \frac{1}{3 \cdot a}} \]

      2. log1p-expm1-u 72.6%

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

      3. unsub-neg 72.6%

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

      4. *-commutative 72.6%

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

   7. Applied egg-rr 72.6%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{1}{a \cdot 3}} \]
   8. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate-*r/ 72.6%

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

      2. *-rgt-identity 72.6%

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

   9. Simplified 72.6%

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

   if 5200 < b

   1. Initial program 40.3%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{3 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. neg-sub0 40.3%

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

      2. associate-+l- 40.3%

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

      3. sub0-neg 40.3%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 40.3%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 40.3%

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

      6. metadata-eval 40.3%

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

      7. metadata-eval 40.3%

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

      8. times-frac 40.3%

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

      9. *-commutative 40.3%

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

      10. times-frac 40.3%

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

      11. associate-*l/ 40.3%

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

   3. Simplified 40.3%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 76.7%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 74.9%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 5200:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 8: 64.4% accurate, 23.2× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c) :precision binary64 (* -0.5 (/ c b)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return -0.5 * (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 = (-0.5d0) * (c / b)
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return -0.5 * (c / b);
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	return -0.5 * (c / b)

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	return Float64(-0.5 * Float64(c / b))
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := N[(-0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 55.0%

   \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{3 \cdot a} \]
2. Step-by-step derivation

   1. neg-sub0 55.0%

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

   2. associate-+l- 55.0%

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

   3. sub0-neg 55.0%

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

   4. neg-mul-1 55.0%

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

   5. associate-*r/ 55.0%

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

   6. metadata-eval 55.0%

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

   7. metadata-eval 55.0%

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

   8. times-frac 55.0%

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

   9. *-commutative 55.0%

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

   10. times-frac 54.9%

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

   11. associate-*l/ 55.0%

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

3. Simplified 55.1%

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

4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 64.4%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]

5. Final simplification 64.4%

   \[\leadsto -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b} \]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2023207 
(FPCore (a b c)
  :name "Cubic critical, 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) (* (* 3.0 a) c)))) (* 3.0 a)))