Cubic critical

Percentage Accurate: 51.4% → 85.0%

Time: 13.8s

Alternatives: 15

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: 51.4% 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: 85.0% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -5.5 \cdot 10^{+152}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \frac{-0.6666666666666666}{\frac{a}{b}}\right)\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 10^{-92}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c \cdot -0.5}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -5.5e+152)
   (fma 0.5 (/ c b) (/ -0.6666666666666666 (/ a b)))
   (if (<= b 1e-92)
     (/ (- (sqrt (- (* b b) (* c (* a 3.0)))) b) (* a 3.0))
     (/ (* c -0.5) b))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -5.5e+152) {
		tmp = fma(0.5, (c / b), (-0.6666666666666666 / (a / b)));
	} else if (b <= 1e-92) {
		tmp = (sqrt(((b * b) - (c * (a * 3.0)))) - b) / (a * 3.0);
	} else {
		tmp = (c * -0.5) / b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -5.5e+152)
		tmp = fma(0.5, Float64(c / b), Float64(-0.6666666666666666 / Float64(a / b)));
	elseif (b <= 1e-92)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(c * Float64(a * 3.0)))) - b) / Float64(a * 3.0));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(c * -0.5) / b);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -5.5e+152], N[(0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] + N[(-0.6666666666666666 / N[(a / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 1e-92], 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[(N[(c * -0.5), $MachinePrecision] / b), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -5.4999999999999999e152

   1. Initial program 26.4%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 26.4%

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

      2. metadata-eval 26.4%

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

      3. associate-/l* 26.4%

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

      4. associate-*r/ 26.4%

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

      5. *-commutative 26.4%

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

      6. associate-*l/ 26.4%

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

      7. associate-*r/ 26.4%

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

      8. metadata-eval 26.4%

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

      9. metadata-eval 26.4%

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

      10. times-frac 26.4%

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

      11. neg-mul-1 26.4%

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

      12. distribute-rgt-neg-in 26.4%

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

      13. times-frac 26.4%

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

      14. metadata-eval 26.4%

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

      15. neg-mul-1 26.4%

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

   3. Simplified 26.4%

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

      1. fma-udef 26.4%

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

   5. Applied egg-rr 26.4%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 97.1%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a} + 0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative 97.1%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b} + -0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a}} \]

      2. fma-def 97.1%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \frac{c}{b}, -0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a}\right)} \]

      3. associate-*r/ 97.3%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \color{blue}{\frac{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot b}{a}}\right) \]

      4. associate-/l* 97.2%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \color{blue}{\frac{-0.6666666666666666}{\frac{a}{b}}}\right) \]

   8. Simplified 97.2%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \frac{-0.6666666666666666}{\frac{a}{b}}\right)} \]

   if -5.4999999999999999e152 < b < 9.99999999999999988e-93

   1. Initial program 83.9%

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

   if 9.99999999999999988e-93 < b

   1. Initial program 15.4%

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

      1. neg-sub0 15.4%

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

      2. associate-+l- 15.4%

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

      3. sub0-neg 15.4%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 15.4%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 15.4%

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

      6. *-commutative 15.4%

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

      7. metadata-eval 15.4%

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

      8. metadata-eval 15.4%

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

      9. times-frac 15.4%

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

      10. *-commutative 15.4%

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

      11. times-frac 15.4%

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

   3. Simplified 15.4%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 91.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
   5. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate-*r/ 91.3%

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

   6. Applied egg-rr 91.3%

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

4. Final simplification 88.8%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -5.5 \cdot 10^{+152}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \frac{-0.6666666666666666}{\frac{a}{b}}\right)\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 10^{-92}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c \cdot -0.5}{b}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 2: 84.7% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -2 \cdot 10^{+119}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \frac{-0.6666666666666666}{\frac{a}{b}}\right)\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 2 \cdot 10^{-96}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.3333333333333333 \cdot \frac{b - \sqrt{b \cdot b + a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)}}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c \cdot -0.5}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -2e+119)
   (fma 0.5 (/ c b) (/ -0.6666666666666666 (/ a b)))
   (if (<= b 2e-96)
     (* -0.3333333333333333 (/ (- b (sqrt (+ (* b b) (* a (* c -3.0))))) a))
     (/ (* c -0.5) b))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -2e+119) {
		tmp = fma(0.5, (c / b), (-0.6666666666666666 / (a / b)));
	} else if (b <= 2e-96) {
		tmp = -0.3333333333333333 * ((b - sqrt(((b * b) + (a * (c * -3.0))))) / a);
	} else {
		tmp = (c * -0.5) / b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -2e+119)
		tmp = fma(0.5, Float64(c / b), Float64(-0.6666666666666666 / Float64(a / b)));
	elseif (b <= 2e-96)
		tmp = Float64(-0.3333333333333333 * Float64(Float64(b - sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) + Float64(a * Float64(c * -3.0))))) / a));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(c * -0.5) / b);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -2e+119], N[(0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] + N[(-0.6666666666666666 / N[(a / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 2e-96], N[(-0.3333333333333333 * N[(N[(b - N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] + N[(a * N[(c * -3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(c * -0.5), $MachinePrecision] / b), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -1.99999999999999989e119

   1. Initial program 38.6%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 38.6%

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

      2. metadata-eval 38.6%

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

      3. associate-/l* 38.6%

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

      4. associate-*r/ 38.6%

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

      5. *-commutative 38.6%

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

      6. associate-*l/ 38.6%

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

      7. associate-*r/ 38.6%

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

      8. metadata-eval 38.6%

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

      9. metadata-eval 38.6%

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

      10. times-frac 38.6%

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

      11. neg-mul-1 38.6%

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

      12. distribute-rgt-neg-in 38.6%

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

      13. times-frac 38.6%

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

      14. metadata-eval 38.6%

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

      15. neg-mul-1 38.6%

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

   3. Simplified 38.6%

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

      1. fma-udef 38.6%

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

   5. Applied egg-rr 38.6%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 97.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a} + 0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative 97.5%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b} + -0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a}} \]

      2. fma-def 97.5%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \frac{c}{b}, -0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a}\right)} \]

      3. associate-*r/ 97.7%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \color{blue}{\frac{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot b}{a}}\right) \]

      4. associate-/l* 97.7%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \color{blue}{\frac{-0.6666666666666666}{\frac{a}{b}}}\right) \]

   8. Simplified 97.7%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \frac{-0.6666666666666666}{\frac{a}{b}}\right)} \]

   if -1.99999999999999989e119 < b < 1.9999999999999998e-96

   1. Initial program 82.8%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 82.8%

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

      2. metadata-eval 82.8%

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

      3. associate-/l* 82.8%

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

      4. associate-*r/ 82.6%

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

      5. *-commutative 82.6%

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

      6. associate-*l/ 82.8%

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

      7. associate-*r/ 82.8%

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

      8. metadata-eval 82.8%

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

      9. metadata-eval 82.8%

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

      10. times-frac 82.8%

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

      11. neg-mul-1 82.8%

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

      12. distribute-rgt-neg-in 82.8%

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

      13. times-frac 82.6%

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

      14. metadata-eval 82.6%

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

      15. neg-mul-1 82.6%

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

   3. Simplified 82.5%

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

      1. fma-udef 82.5%

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

   5. Applied egg-rr 82.5%

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

   if 1.9999999999999998e-96 < b

   1. Initial program 15.4%

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

      1. neg-sub0 15.4%

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

      2. associate-+l- 15.4%

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

      3. sub0-neg 15.4%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 15.4%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 15.4%

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

      6. *-commutative 15.4%

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

      7. metadata-eval 15.4%

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

      8. metadata-eval 15.4%

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

      9. times-frac 15.4%

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

      10. *-commutative 15.4%

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

      11. times-frac 15.4%

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

   3. Simplified 15.4%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 91.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
   5. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate-*r/ 91.3%

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

   6. Applied egg-rr 91.3%

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

4. Final simplification 88.7%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -2 \cdot 10^{+119}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \frac{-0.6666666666666666}{\frac{a}{b}}\right)\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 2 \cdot 10^{-96}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.3333333333333333 \cdot \frac{b - \sqrt{b \cdot b + a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)}}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c \cdot -0.5}{b}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 3: 84.9% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -3.5 \cdot 10^{+148}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \frac{-0.6666666666666666}{\frac{a}{b}}\right)\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 1.2 \cdot 10^{-92}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - 3 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c \cdot -0.5}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -3.5e+148)
   (fma 0.5 (/ c b) (/ -0.6666666666666666 (/ a b)))
   (if (<= b 1.2e-92)
     (/ (- (sqrt (- (* b b) (* 3.0 (* c a)))) b) (* a 3.0))
     (/ (* c -0.5) b))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -3.5e+148) {
		tmp = fma(0.5, (c / b), (-0.6666666666666666 / (a / b)));
	} else if (b <= 1.2e-92) {
		tmp = (sqrt(((b * b) - (3.0 * (c * a)))) - b) / (a * 3.0);
	} else {
		tmp = (c * -0.5) / b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -3.5e+148)
		tmp = fma(0.5, Float64(c / b), Float64(-0.6666666666666666 / Float64(a / b)));
	elseif (b <= 1.2e-92)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(3.0 * Float64(c * a)))) - b) / Float64(a * 3.0));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(c * -0.5) / b);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -3.5e+148], N[(0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] + N[(-0.6666666666666666 / N[(a / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 1.2e-92], N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(3.0 * N[(c * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(c * -0.5), $MachinePrecision] / b), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -3.4999999999999999e148

   1. Initial program 26.4%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 26.4%

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

      2. metadata-eval 26.4%

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

      3. associate-/l* 26.4%

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

      4. associate-*r/ 26.4%

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

      5. *-commutative 26.4%

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

      6. associate-*l/ 26.4%

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

      7. associate-*r/ 26.4%

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

      8. metadata-eval 26.4%

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

      9. metadata-eval 26.4%

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

      10. times-frac 26.4%

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

      11. neg-mul-1 26.4%

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

      12. distribute-rgt-neg-in 26.4%

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

      13. times-frac 26.4%

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

      14. metadata-eval 26.4%

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

      15. neg-mul-1 26.4%

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

   3. Simplified 26.4%

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

      1. fma-udef 26.4%

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

   5. Applied egg-rr 26.4%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 97.1%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a} + 0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative 97.1%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b} + -0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a}} \]

      2. fma-def 97.1%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \frac{c}{b}, -0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a}\right)} \]

      3. associate-*r/ 97.3%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \color{blue}{\frac{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot b}{a}}\right) \]

      4. associate-/l* 97.2%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \color{blue}{\frac{-0.6666666666666666}{\frac{a}{b}}}\right) \]

   8. Simplified 97.2%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \frac{-0.6666666666666666}{\frac{a}{b}}\right)} \]

   if -3.4999999999999999e148 < b < 1.2000000000000001e-92

   1. Initial program 83.9%

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

      1. neg-sub0 83.9%

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

      2. associate-+l- 83.9%

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

      3. sub0-neg 83.9%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 83.9%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 83.9%

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

      6. metadata-eval 83.9%

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

      7. metadata-eval 83.9%

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

      8. times-frac 83.9%

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

      9. *-commutative 83.9%

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

      10. times-frac 83.8%

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

      11. associate-*l/ 83.9%

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

   3. Simplified 83.9%

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

   if 1.2000000000000001e-92 < b

   1. Initial program 15.4%

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

      1. neg-sub0 15.4%

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

      2. associate-+l- 15.4%

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

      3. sub0-neg 15.4%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 15.4%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 15.4%

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

      6. *-commutative 15.4%

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

      7. metadata-eval 15.4%

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

      8. metadata-eval 15.4%

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

      9. times-frac 15.4%

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

      10. *-commutative 15.4%

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

      11. times-frac 15.4%

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

   3. Simplified 15.4%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 91.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
   5. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate-*r/ 91.3%

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

   6. Applied egg-rr 91.3%

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

4. Final simplification 88.8%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -3.5 \cdot 10^{+148}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \frac{-0.6666666666666666}{\frac{a}{b}}\right)\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 1.2 \cdot 10^{-92}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - 3 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c \cdot -0.5}{b}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 4: 80.2% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -3 \cdot 10^{-56}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \frac{-0.6666666666666666}{\frac{a}{b}}\right)\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 1.55 \cdot 10^{-96}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.3333333333333333 \cdot \frac{b - \sqrt{c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right)}}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c \cdot -0.5}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -3e-56)
   (fma 0.5 (/ c b) (/ -0.6666666666666666 (/ a b)))
   (if (<= b 1.55e-96)
     (* -0.3333333333333333 (/ (- b (sqrt (* c (* a -3.0)))) a))
     (/ (* c -0.5) b))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -3e-56) {
		tmp = fma(0.5, (c / b), (-0.6666666666666666 / (a / b)));
	} else if (b <= 1.55e-96) {
		tmp = -0.3333333333333333 * ((b - sqrt((c * (a * -3.0)))) / a);
	} else {
		tmp = (c * -0.5) / b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -3e-56)
		tmp = fma(0.5, Float64(c / b), Float64(-0.6666666666666666 / Float64(a / b)));
	elseif (b <= 1.55e-96)
		tmp = Float64(-0.3333333333333333 * Float64(Float64(b - sqrt(Float64(c * Float64(a * -3.0)))) / a));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(c * -0.5) / b);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -3e-56], N[(0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] + N[(-0.6666666666666666 / N[(a / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 1.55e-96], N[(-0.3333333333333333 * N[(N[(b - N[Sqrt[N[(c * N[(a * -3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(c * -0.5), $MachinePrecision] / b), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -2.99999999999999989e-56

   1. Initial program 64.0%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 64.0%

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

      2. metadata-eval 64.0%

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

      3. associate-/l* 64.0%

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

      4. associate-*r/ 63.9%

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

      5. *-commutative 63.9%

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

      6. associate-*l/ 64.0%

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

      7. associate-*r/ 64.0%

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

      8. metadata-eval 64.0%

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

      9. metadata-eval 64.0%

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

      10. times-frac 64.0%

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

      11. neg-mul-1 64.0%

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

      12. distribute-rgt-neg-in 64.0%

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

      13. times-frac 64.0%

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

      14. metadata-eval 64.0%

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

      15. neg-mul-1 64.0%

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

   3. Simplified 64.0%

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

      1. fma-udef 64.0%

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

   5. Applied egg-rr 64.0%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 91.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a} + 0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative 91.5%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b} + -0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a}} \]

      2. fma-def 91.5%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \frac{c}{b}, -0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a}\right)} \]

      3. associate-*r/ 91.6%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \color{blue}{\frac{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot b}{a}}\right) \]

      4. associate-/l* 91.5%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \color{blue}{\frac{-0.6666666666666666}{\frac{a}{b}}}\right) \]

   8. Simplified 91.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \frac{-0.6666666666666666}{\frac{a}{b}}\right)} \]

   if -2.99999999999999989e-56 < b < 1.55e-96

   1. Initial program 75.6%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 75.6%

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

      2. metadata-eval 75.6%

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

      3. associate-/l* 75.6%

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

      4. associate-*r/ 75.5%

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

      5. *-commutative 75.5%

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

      6. associate-*l/ 75.6%

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

      7. associate-*r/ 75.6%

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

      8. metadata-eval 75.6%

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

      9. metadata-eval 75.6%

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

      10. times-frac 75.6%

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

      11. neg-mul-1 75.6%

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

      12. distribute-rgt-neg-in 75.6%

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

      13. times-frac 75.3%

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

      14. metadata-eval 75.3%

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

      15. neg-mul-1 75.3%

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

   3. Simplified 75.3%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around 0 73.7%

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

      1. *-commutative 73.7%

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

      2. associate-*r* 73.8%

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

      3. metadata-eval 73.8%

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

      4. distribute-lft-neg-in 73.8%

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

      5. *-commutative 73.8%

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

      6. *-commutative 73.8%

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

      7. distribute-rgt-neg-in 73.8%

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

      8. metadata-eval 73.8%

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

   6. Simplified 73.8%

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

   if 1.55e-96 < b

   1. Initial program 15.4%

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

      1. neg-sub0 15.4%

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

      2. associate-+l- 15.4%

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

      3. sub0-neg 15.4%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 15.4%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 15.4%

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

      6. *-commutative 15.4%

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

      7. metadata-eval 15.4%

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

      8. metadata-eval 15.4%

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

      9. times-frac 15.4%

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

      10. *-commutative 15.4%

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

      11. times-frac 15.4%

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

   3. Simplified 15.4%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 91.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
   5. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate-*r/ 91.3%

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

   6. Applied egg-rr 91.3%

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

4. Final simplification 86.4%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -3 \cdot 10^{-56}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \frac{-0.6666666666666666}{\frac{a}{b}}\right)\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 1.55 \cdot 10^{-96}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.3333333333333333 \cdot \frac{b - \sqrt{c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right)}}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c \cdot -0.5}{b}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 5: 67.8% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -2 \cdot 10^{-310}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.6666666666666666, \frac{b}{a}, 0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c \cdot -0.5}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -2e-310)
   (fma -0.6666666666666666 (/ b a) (* 0.5 (/ c b)))
   (/ (* c -0.5) b)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -2e-310) {
		tmp = fma(-0.6666666666666666, (b / a), (0.5 * (c / b)));
	} else {
		tmp = (c * -0.5) / b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -2e-310)
		tmp = fma(-0.6666666666666666, Float64(b / a), Float64(0.5 * Float64(c / b)));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(c * -0.5) / b);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -2e-310], N[(-0.6666666666666666 * N[(b / a), $MachinePrecision] + N[(0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(c * -0.5), $MachinePrecision] / b), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < -1.999999999999994e-310

   1. Initial program 68.0%

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

      1. neg-sub0 68.0%

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

      2. associate-+l- 68.0%

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

      3. sub0-neg 68.0%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 68.0%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 68.0%

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

      6. *-commutative 68.0%

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

      7. metadata-eval 68.0%

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

      8. metadata-eval 68.0%

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

      9. times-frac 68.0%

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

      10. *-commutative 68.0%

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

      11. times-frac 67.9%

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

   3. Simplified 67.8%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 65.1%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a} + 0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
   5. Step-by-step derivation

      1. fma-def 65.2%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.6666666666666666, \frac{b}{a}, 0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right)} \]

   6. Simplified 65.2%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.6666666666666666, \frac{b}{a}, 0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right)} \]

   if -1.999999999999994e-310 < b

   1. Initial program 30.3%

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

      1. neg-sub0 30.3%

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

      2. associate-+l- 30.3%

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

      3. sub0-neg 30.3%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 30.3%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 30.3%

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

      6. *-commutative 30.3%

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

      7. metadata-eval 30.3%

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

      8. metadata-eval 30.3%

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

      9. times-frac 30.3%

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

      10. *-commutative 30.3%

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

      11. times-frac 30.3%

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

   3. Simplified 30.3%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 73.1%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
   5. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate-*r/ 73.1%

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

   6. Applied egg-rr 73.1%

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

4. Final simplification 69.2%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -2 \cdot 10^{-310}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.6666666666666666, \frac{b}{a}, 0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c \cdot -0.5}{b}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 6: 67.8% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -2 \cdot 10^{-310}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \frac{-0.6666666666666666}{\frac{a}{b}}\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c \cdot -0.5}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -2e-310)
   (fma 0.5 (/ c b) (/ -0.6666666666666666 (/ a b)))
   (/ (* c -0.5) b)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -2e-310) {
		tmp = fma(0.5, (c / b), (-0.6666666666666666 / (a / b)));
	} else {
		tmp = (c * -0.5) / b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -2e-310)
		tmp = fma(0.5, Float64(c / b), Float64(-0.6666666666666666 / Float64(a / b)));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(c * -0.5) / b);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -2e-310], N[(0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] + N[(-0.6666666666666666 / N[(a / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(c * -0.5), $MachinePrecision] / b), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < -1.999999999999994e-310

   1. Initial program 68.0%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 68.0%

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

      2. metadata-eval 68.0%

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

      3. associate-/l* 68.0%

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

      4. associate-*r/ 67.9%

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

      5. *-commutative 67.9%

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

      6. associate-*l/ 68.0%

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

      7. associate-*r/ 68.0%

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

      8. metadata-eval 68.0%

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

      9. metadata-eval 68.0%

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

      10. times-frac 68.0%

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

      11. neg-mul-1 68.0%

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

      12. distribute-rgt-neg-in 68.0%

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

      13. times-frac 67.9%

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

      14. metadata-eval 67.9%

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

      15. neg-mul-1 67.9%

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

   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. fma-udef 67.8%

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

   5. Applied egg-rr 67.8%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 65.1%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a} + 0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative 65.1%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b} + -0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a}} \]

      2. fma-def 65.1%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \frac{c}{b}, -0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a}\right)} \]

      3. associate-*r/ 65.2%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \color{blue}{\frac{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot b}{a}}\right) \]

      4. associate-/l* 65.2%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \color{blue}{\frac{-0.6666666666666666}{\frac{a}{b}}}\right) \]

   8. Simplified 65.2%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \frac{-0.6666666666666666}{\frac{a}{b}}\right)} \]

   if -1.999999999999994e-310 < b

   1. Initial program 30.3%

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

      1. neg-sub0 30.3%

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

      2. associate-+l- 30.3%

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

      3. sub0-neg 30.3%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 30.3%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 30.3%

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

      6. *-commutative 30.3%

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

      7. metadata-eval 30.3%

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

      8. metadata-eval 30.3%

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

      9. times-frac 30.3%

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

      10. *-commutative 30.3%

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

      11. times-frac 30.3%

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

   3. Simplified 30.3%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 73.1%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
   5. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate-*r/ 73.1%

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

   6. Applied egg-rr 73.1%

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

4. Final simplification 69.2%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -2 \cdot 10^{-310}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \frac{-0.6666666666666666}{\frac{a}{b}}\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c \cdot -0.5}{b}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 7: 67.8% accurate, 7.7× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -2 \cdot 10^{-310}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.3333333333333333 \cdot \left(\frac{c}{b} \cdot -1.5 + \frac{b}{a} \cdot 2\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c \cdot -0.5}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -2e-310)
   (* -0.3333333333333333 (+ (* (/ c b) -1.5) (* (/ b a) 2.0)))
   (/ (* c -0.5) b)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -2e-310) {
		tmp = -0.3333333333333333 * (((c / b) * -1.5) + ((b / a) * 2.0));
	} else {
		tmp = (c * -0.5) / 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-310)) then
        tmp = (-0.3333333333333333d0) * (((c / b) * (-1.5d0)) + ((b / a) * 2.0d0))
    else
        tmp = (c * (-0.5d0)) / b
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -2e-310) {
		tmp = -0.3333333333333333 * (((c / b) * -1.5) + ((b / a) * 2.0));
	} else {
		tmp = (c * -0.5) / b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -2e-310:
		tmp = -0.3333333333333333 * (((c / b) * -1.5) + ((b / a) * 2.0))
	else:
		tmp = (c * -0.5) / b
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -2e-310)
		tmp = Float64(-0.3333333333333333 * Float64(Float64(Float64(c / b) * -1.5) + Float64(Float64(b / a) * 2.0)));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(c * -0.5) / b);
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= -2e-310)
		tmp = -0.3333333333333333 * (((c / b) * -1.5) + ((b / a) * 2.0));
	else
		tmp = (c * -0.5) / b;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -2e-310], N[(-0.3333333333333333 * N[(N[(N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] * -1.5), $MachinePrecision] + N[(N[(b / a), $MachinePrecision] * 2.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(c * -0.5), $MachinePrecision] / b), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < -1.999999999999994e-310

   1. Initial program 68.0%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 68.0%

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

      2. metadata-eval 68.0%

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

      3. associate-/l* 68.0%

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

      4. associate-*r/ 67.9%

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

      5. *-commutative 67.9%

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

      6. associate-*l/ 68.0%

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

      7. associate-*r/ 68.0%

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

      8. metadata-eval 68.0%

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

      9. metadata-eval 68.0%

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

      10. times-frac 68.0%

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

      11. neg-mul-1 68.0%

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

      12. distribute-rgt-neg-in 68.0%

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

      13. times-frac 67.9%

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

      14. metadata-eval 67.9%

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

      15. neg-mul-1 67.9%

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

   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. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 65.1%

      \[\leadsto -0.3333333333333333 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(-1.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b} + 2 \cdot \frac{b}{a}\right)} \]

   if -1.999999999999994e-310 < b

   1. Initial program 30.3%

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

      1. neg-sub0 30.3%

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

      2. associate-+l- 30.3%

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

      3. sub0-neg 30.3%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 30.3%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 30.3%

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

      6. *-commutative 30.3%

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

      7. metadata-eval 30.3%

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

      8. metadata-eval 30.3%

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

      9. times-frac 30.3%

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

      10. *-commutative 30.3%

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

      11. times-frac 30.3%

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

   3. Simplified 30.3%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 73.1%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
   5. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate-*r/ 73.1%

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

   6. Applied egg-rr 73.1%

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

4. Final simplification 69.2%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -2 \cdot 10^{-310}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.3333333333333333 \cdot \left(\frac{c}{b} \cdot -1.5 + \frac{b}{a} \cdot 2\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c \cdot -0.5}{b}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 8: 67.8% accurate, 8.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -2 \cdot 10^{-310}:\\ \;\;\;\;0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b} + -0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c \cdot -0.5}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -2e-310)
   (+ (* 0.5 (/ c b)) (* -0.6666666666666666 (/ b a)))
   (/ (* c -0.5) b)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -2e-310) {
		tmp = (0.5 * (c / b)) + (-0.6666666666666666 * (b / a));
	} else {
		tmp = (c * -0.5) / 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-310)) then
        tmp = (0.5d0 * (c / b)) + ((-0.6666666666666666d0) * (b / a))
    else
        tmp = (c * (-0.5d0)) / b
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -2e-310) {
		tmp = (0.5 * (c / b)) + (-0.6666666666666666 * (b / a));
	} else {
		tmp = (c * -0.5) / b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -2e-310:
		tmp = (0.5 * (c / b)) + (-0.6666666666666666 * (b / a))
	else:
		tmp = (c * -0.5) / b
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -2e-310)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(0.5 * Float64(c / b)) + Float64(-0.6666666666666666 * Float64(b / a)));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(c * -0.5) / b);
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= -2e-310)
		tmp = (0.5 * (c / b)) + (-0.6666666666666666 * (b / a));
	else
		tmp = (c * -0.5) / b;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -2e-310], N[(N[(0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[(-0.6666666666666666 * N[(b / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(c * -0.5), $MachinePrecision] / b), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < -1.999999999999994e-310

   1. Initial program 68.0%

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

      1. neg-sub0 68.0%

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

      2. associate-+l- 68.0%

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

      3. sub0-neg 68.0%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 68.0%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 68.0%

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

      6. *-commutative 68.0%

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

      7. metadata-eval 68.0%

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

      8. metadata-eval 68.0%

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

      9. times-frac 68.0%

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

      10. *-commutative 68.0%

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

      11. times-frac 67.9%

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

   3. Simplified 67.8%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 65.1%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a} + 0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]

   if -1.999999999999994e-310 < b

   1. Initial program 30.3%

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

      1. neg-sub0 30.3%

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

      2. associate-+l- 30.3%

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

      3. sub0-neg 30.3%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 30.3%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 30.3%

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

      6. *-commutative 30.3%

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

      7. metadata-eval 30.3%

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

      8. metadata-eval 30.3%

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

      9. times-frac 30.3%

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

      10. *-commutative 30.3%

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

      11. times-frac 30.3%

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

   3. Simplified 30.3%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 73.1%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
   5. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate-*r/ 73.1%

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

   6. Applied egg-rr 73.1%

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

4. Final simplification 69.2%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -2 \cdot 10^{-310}:\\ \;\;\;\;0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b} + -0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c \cdot -0.5}{b}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 9: 67.6% accurate, 12.8× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 7 \cdot 10^{-289}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-1}{\frac{a}{b} \cdot 1.5}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c \cdot -0.5}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b 7e-289) (/ -1.0 (* (/ a b) 1.5)) (/ (* c -0.5) b)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 7e-289) {
		tmp = -1.0 / ((a / b) * 1.5);
	} else {
		tmp = (c * -0.5) / 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 <= 7d-289) then
        tmp = (-1.0d0) / ((a / b) * 1.5d0)
    else
        tmp = (c * (-0.5d0)) / b
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 7e-289) {
		tmp = -1.0 / ((a / b) * 1.5);
	} else {
		tmp = (c * -0.5) / b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= 7e-289:
		tmp = -1.0 / ((a / b) * 1.5)
	else:
		tmp = (c * -0.5) / b
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= 7e-289)
		tmp = Float64(-1.0 / Float64(Float64(a / b) * 1.5));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(c * -0.5) / b);
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= 7e-289)
		tmp = -1.0 / ((a / b) * 1.5);
	else
		tmp = (c * -0.5) / b;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, 7e-289], N[(-1.0 / N[(N[(a / b), $MachinePrecision] * 1.5), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(c * -0.5), $MachinePrecision] / b), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < 6.9999999999999999e-289

   1. Initial program 67.7%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 67.7%

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

      2. metadata-eval 67.7%

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

      3. associate-/l* 67.7%

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

      4. associate-*r/ 67.6%

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

      5. *-commutative 67.6%

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

      6. associate-*l/ 67.7%

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

      7. associate-*r/ 67.7%

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

      8. metadata-eval 67.7%

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

      9. metadata-eval 67.7%

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

      10. times-frac 67.7%

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

      11. neg-mul-1 67.7%

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

      12. distribute-rgt-neg-in 67.7%

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

      13. times-frac 67.6%

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

      14. metadata-eval 67.6%

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

      15. neg-mul-1 67.6%

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

   3. Simplified 67.6%

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

      1. div-sub 67.6%

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

      2. fma-udef 67.6%

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

      3. add-sqr-sqrt 51.4%

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

      4. hypot-def 62.2%

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

   5. Applied egg-rr 62.2%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 63.6%

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

      1. *-commutative 63.6%

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

      2. associate-*l/ 63.6%

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

      3. associate-*r/ 63.6%

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

   8. Simplified 63.6%

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

      1. associate-*r/ 63.6%

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

      2. metadata-eval 63.6%

         \[\leadsto \frac{b \cdot \color{blue}{\left(-2 \cdot 0.3333333333333333\right)}}{a} \]

      3. associate-*l* 63.6%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left(b \cdot -2\right) \cdot 0.3333333333333333}}{a} \]

      4. clear-num 63.6%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{\frac{a}{\left(b \cdot -2\right) \cdot 0.3333333333333333}}} \]

      5. frac-2neg 63.6%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-1}{-\frac{a}{\left(b \cdot -2\right) \cdot 0.3333333333333333}}} \]

      6. metadata-eval 63.6%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{-1}}{-\frac{a}{\left(b \cdot -2\right) \cdot 0.3333333333333333}} \]

      7. associate-*l* 63.6%

         \[\leadsto \frac{-1}{-\frac{a}{\color{blue}{b \cdot \left(-2 \cdot 0.3333333333333333\right)}}} \]

      8. metadata-eval 63.6%

         \[\leadsto \frac{-1}{-\frac{a}{b \cdot \color{blue}{-0.6666666666666666}}} \]

   10. Applied egg-rr 63.6%

       \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-1}{-\frac{a}{b \cdot -0.6666666666666666}}} \]
   11. Step-by-step derivation

       1. distribute-neg-frac 63.6%

          \[\leadsto \frac{-1}{\color{blue}{\frac{-a}{b \cdot -0.6666666666666666}}} \]

       2. neg-mul-1 63.6%

          \[\leadsto \frac{-1}{\frac{\color{blue}{-1 \cdot a}}{b \cdot -0.6666666666666666}} \]

       3. *-commutative 63.6%

          \[\leadsto \frac{-1}{\frac{-1 \cdot a}{\color{blue}{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot b}}} \]

       4. times-frac 63.6%

          \[\leadsto \frac{-1}{\color{blue}{\frac{-1}{-0.6666666666666666} \cdot \frac{a}{b}}} \]

       5. metadata-eval 63.6%

          \[\leadsto \frac{-1}{\color{blue}{1.5} \cdot \frac{a}{b}} \]

   12. Simplified 63.6%

       \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-1}{1.5 \cdot \frac{a}{b}}} \]

   if 6.9999999999999999e-289 < b

   1. Initial program 30.0%

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

      1. neg-sub0 30.0%

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

      2. associate-+l- 30.0%

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

      3. sub0-neg 30.0%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 30.0%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 30.0%

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

      6. *-commutative 30.0%

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

      7. metadata-eval 30.0%

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

      8. metadata-eval 30.0%

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

      9. times-frac 30.0%

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

      10. *-commutative 30.0%

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

      11. times-frac 30.0%

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

   3. Simplified 29.9%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 74.1%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
   5. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate-*r/ 74.2%

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

   6. Applied egg-rr 74.2%

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

4. Final simplification 68.9%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 7 \cdot 10^{-289}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-1}{\frac{a}{b} \cdot 1.5}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c \cdot -0.5}{b}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 10: 67.6% accurate, 16.4× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 3.15 \cdot 10^{-279}:\\ \;\;\;\;b \cdot \frac{-0.6666666666666666}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} \cdot -0.5\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b 3.15e-279) (* b (/ -0.6666666666666666 a)) (* (/ c b) -0.5)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 3.15e-279) {
		tmp = b * (-0.6666666666666666 / a);
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5;
	}
	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 <= 3.15d-279) then
        tmp = b * ((-0.6666666666666666d0) / a)
    else
        tmp = (c / b) * (-0.5d0)
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 3.15e-279) {
		tmp = b * (-0.6666666666666666 / a);
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= 3.15e-279:
		tmp = b * (-0.6666666666666666 / a)
	else:
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= 3.15e-279)
		tmp = Float64(b * Float64(-0.6666666666666666 / a));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(c / b) * -0.5);
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= 3.15e-279)
		tmp = b * (-0.6666666666666666 / a);
	else
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, 3.15e-279], N[(b * N[(-0.6666666666666666 / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] * -0.5), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < 3.1499999999999999e-279

   1. Initial program 67.7%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 67.7%

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

      2. metadata-eval 67.7%

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

      3. associate-/l* 67.7%

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

      4. associate-*r/ 67.6%

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

      5. *-commutative 67.6%

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

      6. associate-*l/ 67.7%

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

      7. associate-*r/ 67.7%

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

      8. metadata-eval 67.7%

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

      9. metadata-eval 67.7%

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

      10. times-frac 67.7%

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

      11. neg-mul-1 67.7%

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

      12. distribute-rgt-neg-in 67.7%

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

      13. times-frac 67.6%

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

      14. metadata-eval 67.6%

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

      15. neg-mul-1 67.6%

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

   3. Simplified 67.6%

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

      1. div-sub 67.6%

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

      2. fma-udef 67.6%

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

      3. add-sqr-sqrt 51.4%

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

      4. hypot-def 62.2%

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

   5. Applied egg-rr 62.2%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 63.6%

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

      1. *-commutative 63.6%

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

      2. associate-*l/ 63.6%

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

      3. associate-*r/ 63.6%

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

   8. Simplified 63.6%

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

   if 3.1499999999999999e-279 < b

   1. Initial program 30.0%

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

      1. neg-sub0 30.0%

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

      2. associate-+l- 30.0%

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

      3. sub0-neg 30.0%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 30.0%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 30.0%

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

      6. *-commutative 30.0%

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

      7. metadata-eval 30.0%

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

      8. metadata-eval 30.0%

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

      9. times-frac 30.0%

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

      10. *-commutative 30.0%

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

      11. times-frac 30.0%

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

   3. Simplified 29.9%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 74.1%

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

4. Final simplification 68.9%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 3.15 \cdot 10^{-279}:\\ \;\;\;\;b \cdot \frac{-0.6666666666666666}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} \cdot -0.5\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 11: 67.6% accurate, 16.4× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 7 \cdot 10^{-289}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-0.6666666666666666}{\frac{a}{b}}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} \cdot -0.5\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b 7e-289) (/ -0.6666666666666666 (/ a b)) (* (/ c b) -0.5)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 7e-289) {
		tmp = -0.6666666666666666 / (a / b);
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5;
	}
	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 <= 7d-289) then
        tmp = (-0.6666666666666666d0) / (a / b)
    else
        tmp = (c / b) * (-0.5d0)
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 7e-289) {
		tmp = -0.6666666666666666 / (a / b);
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= 7e-289:
		tmp = -0.6666666666666666 / (a / b)
	else:
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= 7e-289)
		tmp = Float64(-0.6666666666666666 / Float64(a / b));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(c / b) * -0.5);
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= 7e-289)
		tmp = -0.6666666666666666 / (a / b);
	else
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, 7e-289], N[(-0.6666666666666666 / N[(a / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] * -0.5), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < 6.9999999999999999e-289

   1. Initial program 67.7%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 67.7%

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

      2. metadata-eval 67.7%

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

      3. associate-/l* 67.7%

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

      4. associate-*r/ 67.6%

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

      5. *-commutative 67.6%

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

      6. associate-*l/ 67.7%

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

      7. associate-*r/ 67.7%

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

      8. metadata-eval 67.7%

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

      9. metadata-eval 67.7%

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

      10. times-frac 67.7%

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

      11. neg-mul-1 67.7%

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

      12. distribute-rgt-neg-in 67.7%

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

      13. times-frac 67.6%

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

      14. metadata-eval 67.6%

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

      15. neg-mul-1 67.6%

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

   3. Simplified 67.6%

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

      1. fma-udef 67.6%

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

   5. Applied egg-rr 67.6%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 63.6%

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

      1. associate-*r/ 63.6%

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

      2. associate-/l* 63.6%

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

   8. Simplified 63.6%

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

   if 6.9999999999999999e-289 < b

   1. Initial program 30.0%

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

      1. neg-sub0 30.0%

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

      2. associate-+l- 30.0%

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

      3. sub0-neg 30.0%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 30.0%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 30.0%

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

      6. *-commutative 30.0%

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

      7. metadata-eval 30.0%

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

      8. metadata-eval 30.0%

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

      9. times-frac 30.0%

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

      10. *-commutative 30.0%

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

      11. times-frac 30.0%

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

   3. Simplified 29.9%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 74.1%

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

4. Final simplification 68.9%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 7 \cdot 10^{-289}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-0.6666666666666666}{\frac{a}{b}}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} \cdot -0.5\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 12: 67.7% accurate, 16.4× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 7 \cdot 10^{-289}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b}{\frac{a}{-0.6666666666666666}}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} \cdot -0.5\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b 7e-289) (/ b (/ a -0.6666666666666666)) (* (/ c b) -0.5)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 7e-289) {
		tmp = b / (a / -0.6666666666666666);
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5;
	}
	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 <= 7d-289) then
        tmp = b / (a / (-0.6666666666666666d0))
    else
        tmp = (c / b) * (-0.5d0)
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 7e-289) {
		tmp = b / (a / -0.6666666666666666);
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= 7e-289:
		tmp = b / (a / -0.6666666666666666)
	else:
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= 7e-289)
		tmp = Float64(b / Float64(a / -0.6666666666666666));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(c / b) * -0.5);
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= 7e-289)
		tmp = b / (a / -0.6666666666666666);
	else
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, 7e-289], N[(b / N[(a / -0.6666666666666666), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] * -0.5), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < 6.9999999999999999e-289

   1. Initial program 67.7%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 67.7%

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

      2. metadata-eval 67.7%

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

      3. associate-/l* 67.7%

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

      4. associate-*r/ 67.6%

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

      5. *-commutative 67.6%

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

      6. associate-*l/ 67.7%

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

      7. associate-*r/ 67.7%

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

      8. metadata-eval 67.7%

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

      9. metadata-eval 67.7%

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

      10. times-frac 67.7%

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

      11. neg-mul-1 67.7%

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

      12. distribute-rgt-neg-in 67.7%

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

      13. times-frac 67.6%

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

      14. metadata-eval 67.6%

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

      15. neg-mul-1 67.6%

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

   3. Simplified 67.6%

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

      1. div-sub 67.6%

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

      2. fma-udef 67.6%

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

      3. add-sqr-sqrt 51.4%

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

      4. hypot-def 62.2%

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

   5. Applied egg-rr 62.2%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 63.6%

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

      1. *-commutative 63.6%

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

      2. associate-*l/ 63.6%

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

      3. associate-*r/ 63.6%

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

   8. Simplified 63.6%

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

   9. Taylor expanded in b around 0 63.6%

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

       1. associate-*r/ 63.6%

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

       2. *-commutative 63.6%

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

       3. associate-/l* 63.6%

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

   11. Simplified 63.6%

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

   if 6.9999999999999999e-289 < b

   1. Initial program 30.0%

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

      1. neg-sub0 30.0%

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

      2. associate-+l- 30.0%

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

      3. sub0-neg 30.0%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 30.0%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 30.0%

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

      6. *-commutative 30.0%

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

      7. metadata-eval 30.0%

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

      8. metadata-eval 30.0%

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

      9. times-frac 30.0%

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

      10. *-commutative 30.0%

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

      11. times-frac 30.0%

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

   3. Simplified 29.9%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 74.1%

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

4. Final simplification 68.9%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 7 \cdot 10^{-289}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b}{\frac{a}{-0.6666666666666666}}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} \cdot -0.5\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 13: 67.7% accurate, 16.4× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 7 \cdot 10^{-289}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b}{\frac{a}{-0.6666666666666666}}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c \cdot -0.5}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b 7e-289) (/ b (/ a -0.6666666666666666)) (/ (* c -0.5) b)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 7e-289) {
		tmp = b / (a / -0.6666666666666666);
	} else {
		tmp = (c * -0.5) / 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 <= 7d-289) then
        tmp = b / (a / (-0.6666666666666666d0))
    else
        tmp = (c * (-0.5d0)) / b
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 7e-289) {
		tmp = b / (a / -0.6666666666666666);
	} else {
		tmp = (c * -0.5) / b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= 7e-289:
		tmp = b / (a / -0.6666666666666666)
	else:
		tmp = (c * -0.5) / b
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= 7e-289)
		tmp = Float64(b / Float64(a / -0.6666666666666666));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(c * -0.5) / b);
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= 7e-289)
		tmp = b / (a / -0.6666666666666666);
	else
		tmp = (c * -0.5) / b;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, 7e-289], N[(b / N[(a / -0.6666666666666666), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(c * -0.5), $MachinePrecision] / b), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < 6.9999999999999999e-289

   1. Initial program 67.7%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 67.7%

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

      2. metadata-eval 67.7%

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

      3. associate-/l* 67.7%

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

      4. associate-*r/ 67.6%

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

      5. *-commutative 67.6%

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

      6. associate-*l/ 67.7%

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

      7. associate-*r/ 67.7%

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

      8. metadata-eval 67.7%

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

      9. metadata-eval 67.7%

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

      10. times-frac 67.7%

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

      11. neg-mul-1 67.7%

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

      12. distribute-rgt-neg-in 67.7%

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

      13. times-frac 67.6%

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

      14. metadata-eval 67.6%

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

      15. neg-mul-1 67.6%

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

   3. Simplified 67.6%

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

      1. div-sub 67.6%

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

      2. fma-udef 67.6%

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

      3. add-sqr-sqrt 51.4%

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

      4. hypot-def 62.2%

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

   5. Applied egg-rr 62.2%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 63.6%

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

      1. *-commutative 63.6%

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

      2. associate-*l/ 63.6%

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

      3. associate-*r/ 63.6%

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

   8. Simplified 63.6%

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

   9. Taylor expanded in b around 0 63.6%

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

       1. associate-*r/ 63.6%

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

       2. *-commutative 63.6%

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

       3. associate-/l* 63.6%

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

   11. Simplified 63.6%

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

   if 6.9999999999999999e-289 < b

   1. Initial program 30.0%

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

      1. neg-sub0 30.0%

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

      2. associate-+l- 30.0%

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

      3. sub0-neg 30.0%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 30.0%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 30.0%

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

      6. *-commutative 30.0%

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

      7. metadata-eval 30.0%

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

      8. metadata-eval 30.0%

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

      9. times-frac 30.0%

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

      10. *-commutative 30.0%

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

      11. times-frac 30.0%

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

   3. Simplified 29.9%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 74.1%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
   5. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate-*r/ 74.2%

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

   6. Applied egg-rr 74.2%

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

4. Final simplification 68.9%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 7 \cdot 10^{-289}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b}{\frac{a}{-0.6666666666666666}}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c \cdot -0.5}{b}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 14: 67.7% accurate, 16.4× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 7 \cdot 10^{-289}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b \cdot -0.6666666666666666}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c \cdot -0.5}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b 7e-289) (/ (* b -0.6666666666666666) a) (/ (* c -0.5) b)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 7e-289) {
		tmp = (b * -0.6666666666666666) / a;
	} else {
		tmp = (c * -0.5) / 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 <= 7d-289) then
        tmp = (b * (-0.6666666666666666d0)) / a
    else
        tmp = (c * (-0.5d0)) / b
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 7e-289) {
		tmp = (b * -0.6666666666666666) / a;
	} else {
		tmp = (c * -0.5) / b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= 7e-289:
		tmp = (b * -0.6666666666666666) / a
	else:
		tmp = (c * -0.5) / b
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= 7e-289)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(b * -0.6666666666666666) / a);
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(c * -0.5) / b);
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= 7e-289)
		tmp = (b * -0.6666666666666666) / a;
	else
		tmp = (c * -0.5) / b;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, 7e-289], N[(N[(b * -0.6666666666666666), $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(c * -0.5), $MachinePrecision] / b), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < 6.9999999999999999e-289

   1. Initial program 67.7%

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

      1. neg-sub0 67.7%

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

      2. associate-+l- 67.7%

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

      3. sub0-neg 67.7%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 67.7%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 67.7%

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

      6. *-commutative 67.7%

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

      7. metadata-eval 67.7%

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

      8. metadata-eval 67.7%

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

      9. times-frac 67.7%

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

      10. *-commutative 67.7%

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

      11. times-frac 67.6%

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

   3. Simplified 67.5%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 63.6%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(-2 \cdot b\right)} \cdot \frac{0.3333333333333333}{a} \]
   5. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 63.6%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(b \cdot -2\right)} \cdot \frac{0.3333333333333333}{a} \]

   6. Simplified 63.6%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(b \cdot -2\right)} \cdot \frac{0.3333333333333333}{a} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate-*r/ 63.6%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(b \cdot -2\right) \cdot 0.3333333333333333}{a}} \]

   8. Applied egg-rr 63.6%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(b \cdot -2\right) \cdot 0.3333333333333333}{a}} \]

   9. Taylor expanded in b around 0 63.6%

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

       1. *-commutative 63.6%

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

   11. Simplified 63.6%

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

   if 6.9999999999999999e-289 < b

   1. Initial program 30.0%

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

      1. neg-sub0 30.0%

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

      2. associate-+l- 30.0%

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

      3. sub0-neg 30.0%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 30.0%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 30.0%

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

      6. *-commutative 30.0%

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

      7. metadata-eval 30.0%

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

      8. metadata-eval 30.0%

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

      9. times-frac 30.0%

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

      10. *-commutative 30.0%

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

      11. times-frac 30.0%

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

   3. Simplified 29.9%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 74.1%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
   5. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate-*r/ 74.2%

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

   6. Applied egg-rr 74.2%

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

4. Final simplification 68.9%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 7 \cdot 10^{-289}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b \cdot -0.6666666666666666}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c \cdot -0.5}{b}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 15: 35.0% accurate, 23.2× speedup

Math

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

FPCore

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

C

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

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b, c)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8), intent (in) :: c
    code = (c / b) * (-0.5d0)
end function

Java

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

Python

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

Julia

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

MATLAB

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

Wolfram

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

Derivation

1. Initial program 48.7%

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

   1. neg-sub0 48.7%

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

   2. associate-+l- 48.7%

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

   3. sub0-neg 48.7%

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

   4. neg-mul-1 48.7%

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

   5. associate-*r/ 48.7%

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

   6. *-commutative 48.7%

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

   7. metadata-eval 48.7%

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

   8. metadata-eval 48.7%

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

   9. times-frac 48.7%

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

   10. *-commutative 48.7%

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

   11. times-frac 48.6%

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

3. Simplified 48.6%

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

4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 38.5%

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

5. Final simplification 38.5%

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2023229 
(FPCore (a b c)
  :name "Cubic critical"
  :precision binary64
  (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 3.0 a) c)))) (* 3.0 a)))