Cubic critical

Percentage Accurate: 52.3% → 85.8%

Time: 11.7s

Alternatives: 7

Speedup: 16.4×

Specification

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: 52.3% 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: 85.8% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -7.6 \cdot 10^{+155}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b \cdot -0.6666666666666666}{a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 2.7 \cdot 10^{-64}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(a \cdot 3\right) \cdot c} - b}{a \cdot 3}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -7.6e+155)
   (/ (* b -0.6666666666666666) a)
   (if (<= b 2.7e-64)
     (/ (- (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* a 3.0) c))) b) (* a 3.0))
     (* -0.5 (/ c b)))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -7.6e+155) {
		tmp = (b * -0.6666666666666666) / a;
	} else if (b <= 2.7e-64) {
		tmp = (sqrt(((b * b) - ((a * 3.0) * c))) - 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 <= (-7.6d+155)) then
        tmp = (b * (-0.6666666666666666d0)) / a
    else if (b <= 2.7d-64) then
        tmp = (sqrt(((b * b) - ((a * 3.0d0) * c))) - 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 <= -7.6e+155) {
		tmp = (b * -0.6666666666666666) / a;
	} else if (b <= 2.7e-64) {
		tmp = (Math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((a * 3.0) * c))) - b) / (a * 3.0);
	} else {
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -7.6e+155:
		tmp = (b * -0.6666666666666666) / a
	elif b <= 2.7e-64:
		tmp = (math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((a * 3.0) * c))) - b) / (a * 3.0)
	else:
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b)
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -7.6e+155)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(b * -0.6666666666666666) / a);
	elseif (b <= 2.7e-64)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(Float64(a * 3.0) * c))) - 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 <= -7.6e+155)
		tmp = (b * -0.6666666666666666) / a;
	elseif (b <= 2.7e-64)
		tmp = (sqrt(((b * b) - ((a * 3.0) * c))) - b) / (a * 3.0);
	else
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -7.6e+155], N[(N[(b * -0.6666666666666666), $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 2.7e-64], N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision] * c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(-0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -7.6000000000000001e155

   1. Initial program 30.6%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 30.6%

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

      2. metadata-eval 30.6%

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

      3. associate-/l* 30.6%

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

      4. associate-*r/ 30.6%

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

      5. *-commutative 30.6%

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

      6. associate-*l/ 30.6%

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

      7. associate-*r/ 30.6%

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

      8. metadata-eval 30.6%

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

      9. metadata-eval 30.6%

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

      10. times-frac 30.6%

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

      11. neg-mul-1 30.6%

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

      12. distribute-rgt-neg-in 30.6%

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

      13. times-frac 30.6%

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

      14. metadata-eval 30.6%

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

      15. neg-mul-1 30.6%

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

   3. Simplified 30.6%

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

      1. div-inv 30.6%

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

      2. fma-udef 30.6%

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

      3. add-sqr-sqrt 21.1%

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

      4. hypot-def 58.3%

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

   5. Applied egg-rr 58.3%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 97.7%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a}} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate-*r/ 97.8%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot b}{a}} \]

   8. Simplified 97.8%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot b}{a}} \]

   if -7.6000000000000001e155 < b < 2.69999999999999986e-64

   1. Initial program 89.5%

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

   if 2.69999999999999986e-64 < b

   1. Initial program 11.2%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 11.2%

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

      2. metadata-eval 11.2%

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

      3. associate-/r/ 11.2%

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

      4. metadata-eval 11.2%

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

      5. metadata-eval 11.2%

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

      6. times-frac 11.2%

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

      7. *-commutative 11.2%

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

      8. times-frac 11.2%

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

      9. *-commutative 11.2%

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

      10. associate-/r* 11.2%

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

      11. associate-*l/ 11.2%

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

   3. Simplified 11.2%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 93.9%

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

4. Final simplification 92.6%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -7.6 \cdot 10^{+155}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b \cdot -0.6666666666666666}{a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 2.7 \cdot 10^{-64}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(a \cdot 3\right) \cdot c} - b}{a \cdot 3}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 2: 85.7% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -7.6 \cdot 10^{+155}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b \cdot -0.6666666666666666}{a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 2.2 \cdot 10^{-64}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.3333333333333333 \cdot \frac{b - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 3 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -7.6e+155)
   (/ (* b -0.6666666666666666) a)
   (if (<= b 2.2e-64)
     (* -0.3333333333333333 (/ (- b (sqrt (- (* b b) (* 3.0 (* a c))))) a))
     (* -0.5 (/ c b)))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -7.6e+155) {
		tmp = (b * -0.6666666666666666) / a;
	} else if (b <= 2.2e-64) {
		tmp = -0.3333333333333333 * ((b - sqrt(((b * b) - (3.0 * (a * c))))) / a);
	} 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 <= (-7.6d+155)) then
        tmp = (b * (-0.6666666666666666d0)) / a
    else if (b <= 2.2d-64) then
        tmp = (-0.3333333333333333d0) * ((b - sqrt(((b * b) - (3.0d0 * (a * c))))) / a)
    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 <= -7.6e+155) {
		tmp = (b * -0.6666666666666666) / a;
	} else if (b <= 2.2e-64) {
		tmp = -0.3333333333333333 * ((b - Math.sqrt(((b * b) - (3.0 * (a * c))))) / a);
	} else {
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -7.6e+155:
		tmp = (b * -0.6666666666666666) / a
	elif b <= 2.2e-64:
		tmp = -0.3333333333333333 * ((b - math.sqrt(((b * b) - (3.0 * (a * c))))) / a)
	else:
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b)
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -7.6e+155)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(b * -0.6666666666666666) / a);
	elseif (b <= 2.2e-64)
		tmp = Float64(-0.3333333333333333 * Float64(Float64(b - sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(3.0 * Float64(a * c))))) / a));
	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 <= -7.6e+155)
		tmp = (b * -0.6666666666666666) / a;
	elseif (b <= 2.2e-64)
		tmp = -0.3333333333333333 * ((b - sqrt(((b * b) - (3.0 * (a * c))))) / a);
	else
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -7.6e+155], N[(N[(b * -0.6666666666666666), $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 2.2e-64], N[(-0.3333333333333333 * N[(N[(b - N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(3.0 * N[(a * c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(-0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -7.6000000000000001e155

   1. Initial program 30.6%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 30.6%

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

      2. metadata-eval 30.6%

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

      3. associate-/l* 30.6%

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

      4. associate-*r/ 30.6%

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

      5. *-commutative 30.6%

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

      6. associate-*l/ 30.6%

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

      7. associate-*r/ 30.6%

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

      8. metadata-eval 30.6%

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

      9. metadata-eval 30.6%

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

      10. times-frac 30.6%

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

      11. neg-mul-1 30.6%

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

      12. distribute-rgt-neg-in 30.6%

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

      13. times-frac 30.6%

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

      14. metadata-eval 30.6%

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

      15. neg-mul-1 30.6%

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

   3. Simplified 30.6%

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

      1. div-inv 30.6%

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

      2. fma-udef 30.6%

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

      3. add-sqr-sqrt 21.1%

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

      4. hypot-def 58.3%

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

   5. Applied egg-rr 58.3%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 97.7%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a}} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate-*r/ 97.8%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot b}{a}} \]

   8. Simplified 97.8%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot b}{a}} \]

   if -7.6000000000000001e155 < b < 2.2e-64

   1. Initial program 89.5%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 89.5%

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

      2. metadata-eval 89.5%

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

      3. associate-/l* 89.5%

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

      4. associate-*r/ 89.4%

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

      5. *-commutative 89.4%

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

      6. associate-*l/ 89.5%

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

      7. associate-*r/ 89.5%

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

      8. metadata-eval 89.5%

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

      9. metadata-eval 89.5%

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

      10. times-frac 89.5%

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

      11. neg-mul-1 89.5%

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

      12. distribute-rgt-neg-in 89.5%

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

      13. times-frac 89.5%

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

      14. metadata-eval 89.5%

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

      15. neg-mul-1 89.5%

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

   3. Simplified 89.5%

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

      1. associate-*r* 89.5%

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

      2. *-commutative 89.5%

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

      3. metadata-eval 89.5%

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

      4. distribute-lft-neg-in 89.5%

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

      5. fma-neg 89.5%

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

      6. *-un-lft-identity 89.5%

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

      7. prod-diff 89.2%

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

   5. Applied egg-rr 89.2%

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

      1. *-rgt-identity 89.2%

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

      2. fma-neg 89.2%

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

      3. fma-udef 89.2%

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

      4. distribute-rgt-in 89.2%

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

      5. *-lft-identity 89.2%

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

      6. associate--r- 89.2%

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

      7. associate--r+ 89.2%

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

      8. +-inverses 89.5%

         \[\leadsto -0.3333333333333333 \cdot \frac{b - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(\color{blue}{0} - a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)}}{a} \]

      9. neg-sub0 89.5%

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

      10. associate-*r* 89.5%

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

      11. *-commutative 89.5%

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

      12. *-commutative 89.5%

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

      13. *-commutative 89.5%

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

      14. distribute-lft-neg-in 89.5%

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

      15. metadata-eval 89.5%

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

      16. *-commutative 89.5%

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

   7. Simplified 89.5%

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

   if 2.2e-64 < b

   1. Initial program 11.2%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 11.2%

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

      2. metadata-eval 11.2%

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

      3. associate-/r/ 11.2%

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

      4. metadata-eval 11.2%

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

      5. metadata-eval 11.2%

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

      6. times-frac 11.2%

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

      7. *-commutative 11.2%

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

      8. times-frac 11.2%

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

      9. *-commutative 11.2%

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

      10. associate-/r* 11.2%

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

      11. associate-*l/ 11.2%

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

   3. Simplified 11.2%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 93.9%

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

4. Final simplification 92.6%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -7.6 \cdot 10^{+155}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b \cdot -0.6666666666666666}{a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 2.2 \cdot 10^{-64}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.3333333333333333 \cdot \frac{b - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 3 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 3: 80.3% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1.08 \cdot 10^{-97}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b \cdot -0.6666666666666666}{a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 1.1 \cdot 10^{-64}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.3333333333333333 \cdot \frac{b - \sqrt{\left(a \cdot c\right) \cdot -3}}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -1.08e-97)
   (/ (* b -0.6666666666666666) a)
   (if (<= b 1.1e-64)
     (* -0.3333333333333333 (/ (- b (sqrt (* (* a c) -3.0))) a))
     (* -0.5 (/ c b)))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -1.08e-97) {
		tmp = (b * -0.6666666666666666) / a;
	} else if (b <= 1.1e-64) {
		tmp = -0.3333333333333333 * ((b - sqrt(((a * c) * -3.0))) / a);
	} 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 <= (-1.08d-97)) then
        tmp = (b * (-0.6666666666666666d0)) / a
    else if (b <= 1.1d-64) then
        tmp = (-0.3333333333333333d0) * ((b - sqrt(((a * c) * (-3.0d0)))) / a)
    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 <= -1.08e-97) {
		tmp = (b * -0.6666666666666666) / a;
	} else if (b <= 1.1e-64) {
		tmp = -0.3333333333333333 * ((b - Math.sqrt(((a * c) * -3.0))) / a);
	} else {
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -1.08e-97:
		tmp = (b * -0.6666666666666666) / a
	elif b <= 1.1e-64:
		tmp = -0.3333333333333333 * ((b - math.sqrt(((a * c) * -3.0))) / a)
	else:
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b)
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -1.08e-97)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(b * -0.6666666666666666) / a);
	elseif (b <= 1.1e-64)
		tmp = Float64(-0.3333333333333333 * Float64(Float64(b - sqrt(Float64(Float64(a * c) * -3.0))) / a));
	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 <= -1.08e-97)
		tmp = (b * -0.6666666666666666) / a;
	elseif (b <= 1.1e-64)
		tmp = -0.3333333333333333 * ((b - sqrt(((a * c) * -3.0))) / a);
	else
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -1.08e-97], N[(N[(b * -0.6666666666666666), $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 1.1e-64], N[(-0.3333333333333333 * N[(N[(b - N[Sqrt[N[(N[(a * c), $MachinePrecision] * -3.0), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(-0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -1.0799999999999999e-97

   1. Initial program 61.6%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 61.6%

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

      2. metadata-eval 61.6%

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

      3. associate-/l* 61.6%

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

      4. associate-*r/ 61.6%

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

      5. *-commutative 61.6%

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

      6. associate-*l/ 61.6%

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

      7. associate-*r/ 61.6%

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

      8. metadata-eval 61.6%

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

      9. metadata-eval 61.6%

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

      10. times-frac 61.6%

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

      11. neg-mul-1 61.6%

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

      12. distribute-rgt-neg-in 61.6%

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

      13. times-frac 61.6%

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

      14. metadata-eval 61.6%

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

      15. neg-mul-1 61.6%

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

   3. Simplified 61.6%

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

      1. div-inv 61.6%

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

      2. fma-udef 61.6%

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

      3. add-sqr-sqrt 42.1%

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

      4. hypot-def 59.9%

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

   5. Applied egg-rr 59.9%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 85.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a}} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate-*r/ 85.6%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot b}{a}} \]

   8. Simplified 85.6%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot b}{a}} \]

   if -1.0799999999999999e-97 < b < 1.1e-64

   1. Initial program 88.8%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 88.8%

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

      2. metadata-eval 88.8%

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

      3. associate-/l* 88.8%

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

      4. associate-*r/ 88.7%

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

      5. *-commutative 88.7%

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

      6. associate-*l/ 88.8%

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

      7. associate-*r/ 88.8%

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

      8. metadata-eval 88.8%

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

      9. metadata-eval 88.8%

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

      10. times-frac 88.8%

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

      11. neg-mul-1 88.8%

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

      12. distribute-rgt-neg-in 88.8%

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

      13. times-frac 88.8%

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

      14. metadata-eval 88.8%

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

      15. neg-mul-1 88.8%

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

   3. Simplified 88.8%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around 0 88.0%

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

   if 1.1e-64 < b

   1. Initial program 11.2%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 11.2%

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

      2. metadata-eval 11.2%

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

      3. associate-/r/ 11.2%

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

      4. metadata-eval 11.2%

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

      5. metadata-eval 11.2%

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

      6. times-frac 11.2%

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

      7. *-commutative 11.2%

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

      8. times-frac 11.2%

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

      9. *-commutative 11.2%

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

      10. associate-/r* 11.2%

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

      11. associate-*l/ 11.2%

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

   3. Simplified 11.2%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 93.9%

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

4. Final simplification 89.2%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1.08 \cdot 10^{-97}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b \cdot -0.6666666666666666}{a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 1.1 \cdot 10^{-64}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.3333333333333333 \cdot \frac{b - \sqrt{\left(a \cdot c\right) \cdot -3}}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 4: 80.3% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1.08 \cdot 10^{-97}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b \cdot -0.6666666666666666}{a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 4.7 \cdot 10^{-67}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.3333333333333333 \cdot \frac{b - \sqrt{c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right)}}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -1.08e-97)
   (/ (* b -0.6666666666666666) a)
   (if (<= b 4.7e-67)
     (* -0.3333333333333333 (/ (- b (sqrt (* c (* a -3.0)))) a))
     (* -0.5 (/ c b)))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -1.08e-97) {
		tmp = (b * -0.6666666666666666) / a;
	} else if (b <= 4.7e-67) {
		tmp = -0.3333333333333333 * ((b - sqrt((c * (a * -3.0)))) / a);
	} 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 <= (-1.08d-97)) then
        tmp = (b * (-0.6666666666666666d0)) / a
    else if (b <= 4.7d-67) then
        tmp = (-0.3333333333333333d0) * ((b - sqrt((c * (a * (-3.0d0))))) / a)
    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 <= -1.08e-97) {
		tmp = (b * -0.6666666666666666) / a;
	} else if (b <= 4.7e-67) {
		tmp = -0.3333333333333333 * ((b - Math.sqrt((c * (a * -3.0)))) / a);
	} else {
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -1.08e-97:
		tmp = (b * -0.6666666666666666) / a
	elif b <= 4.7e-67:
		tmp = -0.3333333333333333 * ((b - math.sqrt((c * (a * -3.0)))) / a)
	else:
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b)
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -1.08e-97)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(b * -0.6666666666666666) / a);
	elseif (b <= 4.7e-67)
		tmp = Float64(-0.3333333333333333 * Float64(Float64(b - sqrt(Float64(c * Float64(a * -3.0)))) / a));
	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 <= -1.08e-97)
		tmp = (b * -0.6666666666666666) / a;
	elseif (b <= 4.7e-67)
		tmp = -0.3333333333333333 * ((b - sqrt((c * (a * -3.0)))) / a);
	else
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -1.08e-97], N[(N[(b * -0.6666666666666666), $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 4.7e-67], N[(-0.3333333333333333 * N[(N[(b - N[Sqrt[N[(c * N[(a * -3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(-0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -1.0799999999999999e-97

   1. Initial program 61.6%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 61.6%

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

      2. metadata-eval 61.6%

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

      3. associate-/l* 61.6%

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

      4. associate-*r/ 61.6%

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

      5. *-commutative 61.6%

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

      6. associate-*l/ 61.6%

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

      7. associate-*r/ 61.6%

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

      8. metadata-eval 61.6%

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

      9. metadata-eval 61.6%

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

      10. times-frac 61.6%

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

      11. neg-mul-1 61.6%

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

      12. distribute-rgt-neg-in 61.6%

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

      13. times-frac 61.6%

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

      14. metadata-eval 61.6%

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

      15. neg-mul-1 61.6%

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

   3. Simplified 61.6%

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

      1. div-inv 61.6%

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

      2. fma-udef 61.6%

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

      3. add-sqr-sqrt 42.1%

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

      4. hypot-def 59.9%

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

   5. Applied egg-rr 59.9%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 85.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a}} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate-*r/ 85.6%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot b}{a}} \]

   8. Simplified 85.6%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot b}{a}} \]

   if -1.0799999999999999e-97 < b < 4.70000000000000004e-67

   1. Initial program 88.8%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 88.8%

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

      2. metadata-eval 88.8%

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

      3. associate-/l* 88.8%

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

      4. associate-*r/ 88.7%

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

      5. *-commutative 88.7%

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

      6. associate-*l/ 88.8%

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

      7. associate-*r/ 88.8%

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

      8. metadata-eval 88.8%

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

      9. metadata-eval 88.8%

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

      10. times-frac 88.8%

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

      11. neg-mul-1 88.8%

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

      12. distribute-rgt-neg-in 88.8%

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

      13. times-frac 88.8%

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

      14. metadata-eval 88.8%

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

      15. neg-mul-1 88.8%

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

   3. Simplified 88.8%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around 0 88.0%

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

      1. *-commutative 88.0%

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

      2. associate-*l* 88.1%

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

   6. Simplified 88.1%

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

   if 4.70000000000000004e-67 < b

   1. Initial program 11.2%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 11.2%

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

      2. metadata-eval 11.2%

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

      3. associate-/r/ 11.2%

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

      4. metadata-eval 11.2%

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

      5. metadata-eval 11.2%

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

      6. times-frac 11.2%

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

      7. *-commutative 11.2%

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

      8. times-frac 11.2%

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

      9. *-commutative 11.2%

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

      10. associate-/r* 11.2%

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

      11. associate-*l/ 11.2%

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

   3. Simplified 11.2%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 93.9%

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

4. Final simplification 89.2%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1.08 \cdot 10^{-97}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b \cdot -0.6666666666666666}{a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 4.7 \cdot 10^{-67}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.3333333333333333 \cdot \frac{b - \sqrt{c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right)}}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 5: 67.0% accurate, 16.4× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 2 \cdot 10^{-309}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b 2e-309) (* -0.6666666666666666 (/ b a)) (* -0.5 (/ c b))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 2e-309) {
		tmp = -0.6666666666666666 * (b / a);
	} 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 <= 2d-309) then
        tmp = (-0.6666666666666666d0) * (b / a)
    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 <= 2e-309) {
		tmp = -0.6666666666666666 * (b / a);
	} else {
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= 2e-309:
		tmp = -0.6666666666666666 * (b / a)
	else:
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b)
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= 2e-309)
		tmp = Float64(-0.6666666666666666 * Float64(b / a));
	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 <= 2e-309)
		tmp = -0.6666666666666666 * (b / a);
	else
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, 2e-309], N[(-0.6666666666666666 * N[(b / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(-0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < 1.9999999999999988e-309

   1. Initial program 67.8%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 67.8%

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

      2. metadata-eval 67.8%

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

      3. associate-/r/ 67.8%

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

      4. metadata-eval 67.8%

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

      5. metadata-eval 67.8%

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

      6. times-frac 67.8%

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

      7. *-commutative 67.8%

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

      8. times-frac 67.7%

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

      9. *-commutative 67.7%

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

      10. associate-/r* 67.7%

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

      11. associate-*l/ 67.6%

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

   3. Simplified 67.6%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 67.1%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a}} \]
   5. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 67.1%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{a} \cdot -0.6666666666666666} \]

   6. Simplified 67.1%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{a} \cdot -0.6666666666666666} \]

   if 1.9999999999999988e-309 < b

   1. Initial program 32.0%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 32.0%

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

      2. metadata-eval 32.0%

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

      3. associate-/r/ 32.0%

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

      4. metadata-eval 32.0%

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

      5. metadata-eval 32.0%

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

      6. times-frac 32.0%

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

      7. *-commutative 32.0%

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

      8. times-frac 32.0%

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

      9. *-commutative 32.0%

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

      10. associate-/r* 31.9%

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

      11. associate-*l/ 31.9%

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

   3. Simplified 31.9%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 71.1%

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

4. Final simplification 69.1%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 2 \cdot 10^{-309}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 6: 67.0% accurate, 16.4× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -5 \cdot 10^{-310}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b \cdot -0.6666666666666666}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -5e-310) (/ (* b -0.6666666666666666) a) (* -0.5 (/ c b))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -5e-310) {
		tmp = (b * -0.6666666666666666) / a;
	} 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 <= (-5d-310)) then
        tmp = (b * (-0.6666666666666666d0)) / a
    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 <= -5e-310) {
		tmp = (b * -0.6666666666666666) / a;
	} else {
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -5e-310:
		tmp = (b * -0.6666666666666666) / a
	else:
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b)
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -5e-310)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(b * -0.6666666666666666) / a);
	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 <= -5e-310)
		tmp = (b * -0.6666666666666666) / a;
	else
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -5e-310], N[(N[(b * -0.6666666666666666), $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision], N[(-0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < -4.999999999999985e-310

   1. Initial program 67.8%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 67.8%

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

      2. metadata-eval 67.8%

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

      3. associate-/l* 67.8%

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

      4. associate-*r/ 67.7%

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

      5. *-commutative 67.7%

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

      6. associate-*l/ 67.8%

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

      7. associate-*r/ 67.8%

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

      8. metadata-eval 67.8%

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

      9. metadata-eval 67.8%

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

      10. times-frac 67.8%

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

      11. neg-mul-1 67.8%

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

      12. distribute-rgt-neg-in 67.8%

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

      13. times-frac 67.8%

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

      14. metadata-eval 67.8%

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

      15. neg-mul-1 67.8%

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

   3. Simplified 67.8%

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

      1. div-inv 67.7%

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

      2. fma-udef 67.7%

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

      3. add-sqr-sqrt 52.8%

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

      4. hypot-def 67.0%

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

   5. Applied egg-rr 67.0%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 67.1%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a}} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate-*r/ 67.2%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot b}{a}} \]

   8. Simplified 67.2%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot b}{a}} \]

   if -4.999999999999985e-310 < b

   1. Initial program 32.0%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 32.0%

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

      2. metadata-eval 32.0%

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

      3. associate-/r/ 32.0%

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

      4. metadata-eval 32.0%

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

      5. metadata-eval 32.0%

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

      6. times-frac 32.0%

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

      7. *-commutative 32.0%

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

      8. times-frac 32.0%

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

      9. *-commutative 32.0%

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

      10. associate-/r* 31.9%

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

      11. associate-*l/ 31.9%

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

   3. Simplified 31.9%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 71.1%

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

4. Final simplification 69.1%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -5 \cdot 10^{-310}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b \cdot -0.6666666666666666}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 7: 34.3% 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 50.3%

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

   1. /-rgt-identity 50.3%

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

   2. metadata-eval 50.3%

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

   3. associate-/r/ 50.3%

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

   4. metadata-eval 50.3%

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

   5. metadata-eval 50.3%

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

   6. times-frac 50.3%

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

   7. *-commutative 50.3%

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

   8. times-frac 50.3%

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

   9. *-commutative 50.3%

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

   10. associate-/r* 50.2%

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

   11. associate-*l/ 50.2%

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

3. Simplified 50.2%

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

4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 35.8%

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

5. Final simplification 35.8%

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2023216 
(FPCore (a b c)
  :name "Cubic critical"
  :precision binary64
  (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 3.0 a) c)))) (* 3.0 a)))