Cubic critical, narrow range

Percentage Accurate: 55.2% → 92.1%

Time: 14.6s

Alternatives: 11

Speedup: 23.2×

Specification

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

Math

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

FPCore

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

C

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

Fortran

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

Java

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

Python

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

Julia

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

MATLAB

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

Wolfram

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

Initial Program: 55.2% 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: 92.1% accurate, 0.1× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := \mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)\\ \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 0.043:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-0.3333333333333333 \cdot \frac{b \cdot b - t_0}{b + \sqrt{t_0}}}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, \frac{{c}^{3}}{\frac{{b}^{5}}{a \cdot a}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.16666666666666666, \frac{{\left(a \cdot c\right)}^{4}}{{b}^{7}} \cdot \frac{6.328125}{a}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, -0.375 \cdot \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}\right)\right)\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0 (fma b b (* a (* c -3.0)))))
   (if (<= b 0.043)
     (/ (* -0.3333333333333333 (/ (- (* b b) t_0) (+ b (sqrt t_0)))) a)
     (fma
      -0.5625
      (/ (pow c 3.0) (/ (pow b 5.0) (* a a)))
      (fma
       -0.16666666666666666
       (* (/ (pow (* a c) 4.0) (pow b 7.0)) (/ 6.328125 a))
       (fma -0.5 (/ c b) (* -0.375 (/ (* c c) (/ (pow b 3.0) a)))))))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double t_0 = fma(b, b, (a * (c * -3.0)));
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 0.043) {
		tmp = (-0.3333333333333333 * (((b * b) - t_0) / (b + sqrt(t_0)))) / a;
	} else {
		tmp = fma(-0.5625, (pow(c, 3.0) / (pow(b, 5.0) / (a * a))), fma(-0.16666666666666666, ((pow((a * c), 4.0) / pow(b, 7.0)) * (6.328125 / a)), fma(-0.5, (c / b), (-0.375 * ((c * c) / (pow(b, 3.0) / a))))));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	t_0 = fma(b, b, Float64(a * Float64(c * -3.0)))
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= 0.043)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-0.3333333333333333 * Float64(Float64(Float64(b * b) - t_0) / Float64(b + sqrt(t_0)))) / a);
	else
		tmp = fma(-0.5625, Float64((c ^ 3.0) / Float64((b ^ 5.0) / Float64(a * a))), fma(-0.16666666666666666, Float64(Float64((Float64(a * c) ^ 4.0) / (b ^ 7.0)) * Float64(6.328125 / a)), fma(-0.5, Float64(c / b), Float64(-0.375 * Float64(Float64(c * c) / Float64((b ^ 3.0) / a))))));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := Block[{t$95$0 = N[(b * b + N[(a * N[(c * -3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]}, If[LessEqual[b, 0.043], N[(N[(-0.3333333333333333 * N[(N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - t$95$0), $MachinePrecision] / N[(b + N[Sqrt[t$95$0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision], N[(-0.5625 * N[(N[Power[c, 3.0], $MachinePrecision] / N[(N[Power[b, 5.0], $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[(-0.16666666666666666 * N[(N[(N[Power[N[(a * c), $MachinePrecision], 4.0], $MachinePrecision] / N[Power[b, 7.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * N[(6.328125 / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[(-0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] + N[(-0.375 * N[(N[(c * c), $MachinePrecision] / N[(N[Power[b, 3.0], $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < 0.042999999999999997

   1. Initial program 91.4%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 91.4%

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

      2. metadata-eval 91.4%

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

      3. associate-/r/ 91.4%

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

      4. metadata-eval 91.4%

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

      5. metadata-eval 91.4%

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

      6. times-frac 91.4%

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

      7. *-commutative 91.4%

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

      8. times-frac 91.4%

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

      9. *-commutative 91.4%

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

      10. associate-/r* 91.4%

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

      11. associate-*l/ 91.3%

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

   3. Simplified 91.2%

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

      1. flip-- 91.0%

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

      2. add-sqr-sqrt 91.8%

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

      3. associate-*r* 92.0%

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

      4. associate-*r* 91.9%

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

   5. Applied egg-rr 91.9%

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

   if 0.042999999999999997 < b

   1. Initial program 52.1%

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

      1. neg-sub0 52.1%

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

      2. associate-+l- 52.1%

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

      3. sub0-neg 52.1%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 52.1%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 52.1%

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

      6. metadata-eval 52.1%

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

      7. metadata-eval 52.1%

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

      8. times-frac 52.1%

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

      9. *-commutative 52.1%

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

      10. times-frac 52.1%

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

      11. associate-*l/ 52.1%

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

   3. Simplified 52.3%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 91.1%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5625 \cdot \frac{{c}^{3} \cdot {a}^{2}}{{b}^{5}} + \left(-0.16666666666666666 \cdot \frac{{\left(-1.125 \cdot \left({c}^{2} \cdot {a}^{2}\right)\right)}^{2} + 5.0625 \cdot \left({c}^{4} \cdot {a}^{4}\right)}{a \cdot {b}^{7}} + \left(-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b} + -0.375 \cdot \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}}\right)\right)} \]
   5. Step-by-step derivation

      1. fma-def 91.1%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, \frac{{c}^{3} \cdot {a}^{2}}{{b}^{5}}, -0.16666666666666666 \cdot \frac{{\left(-1.125 \cdot \left({c}^{2} \cdot {a}^{2}\right)\right)}^{2} + 5.0625 \cdot \left({c}^{4} \cdot {a}^{4}\right)}{a \cdot {b}^{7}} + \left(-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b} + -0.375 \cdot \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}}\right)\right)} \]

      2. associate-/l* 91.1%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, \color{blue}{\frac{{c}^{3}}{\frac{{b}^{5}}{{a}^{2}}}}, -0.16666666666666666 \cdot \frac{{\left(-1.125 \cdot \left({c}^{2} \cdot {a}^{2}\right)\right)}^{2} + 5.0625 \cdot \left({c}^{4} \cdot {a}^{4}\right)}{a \cdot {b}^{7}} + \left(-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b} + -0.375 \cdot \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}}\right)\right) \]

      3. unpow2 91.1%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, \frac{{c}^{3}}{\frac{{b}^{5}}{\color{blue}{a \cdot a}}}, -0.16666666666666666 \cdot \frac{{\left(-1.125 \cdot \left({c}^{2} \cdot {a}^{2}\right)\right)}^{2} + 5.0625 \cdot \left({c}^{4} \cdot {a}^{4}\right)}{a \cdot {b}^{7}} + \left(-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b} + -0.375 \cdot \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}}\right)\right) \]

      4. fma-def 91.1%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, \frac{{c}^{3}}{\frac{{b}^{5}}{a \cdot a}}, \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.16666666666666666, \frac{{\left(-1.125 \cdot \left({c}^{2} \cdot {a}^{2}\right)\right)}^{2} + 5.0625 \cdot \left({c}^{4} \cdot {a}^{4}\right)}{a \cdot {b}^{7}}, -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b} + -0.375 \cdot \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}}\right)}\right) \]

   6. Simplified 91.1%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, \frac{{c}^{3}}{\frac{{b}^{5}}{a \cdot a}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.16666666666666666, \frac{{\left(-1.125 \cdot \left(\left(c \cdot c\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right)\right)\right)}^{2} + 5.0625 \cdot \left({c}^{4} \cdot {a}^{4}\right)}{a \cdot {b}^{7}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, -0.375 \cdot \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}\right)\right)\right)} \]

   7. Taylor expanded in c around 0 91.1%

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, \frac{{c}^{3}}{\frac{{b}^{5}}{a \cdot a}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.16666666666666666, \color{blue}{\frac{{c}^{4} \cdot \left(1.265625 \cdot {a}^{4} + 5.0625 \cdot {a}^{4}\right)}{a \cdot {b}^{7}}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, -0.375 \cdot \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}\right)\right)\right) \]
   8. Step-by-step derivation

      1. +-commutative 91.1%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, \frac{{c}^{3}}{\frac{{b}^{5}}{a \cdot a}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.16666666666666666, \frac{{c}^{4} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(5.0625 \cdot {a}^{4} + 1.265625 \cdot {a}^{4}\right)}}{a \cdot {b}^{7}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, -0.375 \cdot \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}\right)\right)\right) \]

      2. distribute-rgt-out 91.1%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, \frac{{c}^{3}}{\frac{{b}^{5}}{a \cdot a}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.16666666666666666, \frac{{c}^{4} \cdot \color{blue}{\left({a}^{4} \cdot \left(5.0625 + 1.265625\right)\right)}}{a \cdot {b}^{7}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, -0.375 \cdot \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}\right)\right)\right) \]

      3. associate-*r* 91.1%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, \frac{{c}^{3}}{\frac{{b}^{5}}{a \cdot a}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.16666666666666666, \frac{\color{blue}{\left({c}^{4} \cdot {a}^{4}\right) \cdot \left(5.0625 + 1.265625\right)}}{a \cdot {b}^{7}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, -0.375 \cdot \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}\right)\right)\right) \]

      4. *-commutative 91.1%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, \frac{{c}^{3}}{\frac{{b}^{5}}{a \cdot a}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.16666666666666666, \frac{\left({c}^{4} \cdot {a}^{4}\right) \cdot \left(5.0625 + 1.265625\right)}{\color{blue}{{b}^{7} \cdot a}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, -0.375 \cdot \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}\right)\right)\right) \]

      5. times-frac 91.1%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, \frac{{c}^{3}}{\frac{{b}^{5}}{a \cdot a}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.16666666666666666, \color{blue}{\frac{{c}^{4} \cdot {a}^{4}}{{b}^{7}} \cdot \frac{5.0625 + 1.265625}{a}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, -0.375 \cdot \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}\right)\right)\right) \]

   9. Simplified 91.1%

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, \frac{{c}^{3}}{\frac{{b}^{5}}{a \cdot a}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.16666666666666666, \color{blue}{\frac{{\left(c \cdot a\right)}^{4}}{{b}^{7}} \cdot \frac{6.328125}{a}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, -0.375 \cdot \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}\right)\right)\right) \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 91.2%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 0.043:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-0.3333333333333333 \cdot \frac{b \cdot b - \mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)}}}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, \frac{{c}^{3}}{\frac{{b}^{5}}{a \cdot a}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.16666666666666666, \frac{{\left(a \cdot c\right)}^{4}}{{b}^{7}} \cdot \frac{6.328125}{a}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, -0.375 \cdot \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}\right)\right)\right)\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 2: 89.6% accurate, 0.2× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := \mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)\\ \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 1.43:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-0.3333333333333333 \cdot \frac{b \cdot b - t_0}{b + \sqrt{t_0}}}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, \frac{{c}^{3}}{\frac{{b}^{5}}{a \cdot a}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \frac{\left(c \cdot c\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot -0.375\right)}{{b}^{3}}\right)\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0 (fma b b (* a (* c -3.0)))))
   (if (<= b 1.43)
     (/ (* -0.3333333333333333 (/ (- (* b b) t_0) (+ b (sqrt t_0)))) a)
     (fma
      -0.5625
      (/ (pow c 3.0) (/ (pow b 5.0) (* a a)))
      (fma -0.5 (/ c b) (/ (* (* c c) (* a -0.375)) (pow b 3.0)))))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double t_0 = fma(b, b, (a * (c * -3.0)));
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 1.43) {
		tmp = (-0.3333333333333333 * (((b * b) - t_0) / (b + sqrt(t_0)))) / a;
	} else {
		tmp = fma(-0.5625, (pow(c, 3.0) / (pow(b, 5.0) / (a * a))), fma(-0.5, (c / b), (((c * c) * (a * -0.375)) / pow(b, 3.0))));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	t_0 = fma(b, b, Float64(a * Float64(c * -3.0)))
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= 1.43)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-0.3333333333333333 * Float64(Float64(Float64(b * b) - t_0) / Float64(b + sqrt(t_0)))) / a);
	else
		tmp = fma(-0.5625, Float64((c ^ 3.0) / Float64((b ^ 5.0) / Float64(a * a))), fma(-0.5, Float64(c / b), Float64(Float64(Float64(c * c) * Float64(a * -0.375)) / (b ^ 3.0))));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := Block[{t$95$0 = N[(b * b + N[(a * N[(c * -3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]}, If[LessEqual[b, 1.43], N[(N[(-0.3333333333333333 * N[(N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - t$95$0), $MachinePrecision] / N[(b + N[Sqrt[t$95$0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision], N[(-0.5625 * N[(N[Power[c, 3.0], $MachinePrecision] / N[(N[Power[b, 5.0], $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[(-0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] + N[(N[(N[(c * c), $MachinePrecision] * N[(a * -0.375), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[Power[b, 3.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < 1.42999999999999994

   1. Initial program 85.4%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 85.4%

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

      2. metadata-eval 85.4%

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

      3. associate-/r/ 85.4%

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

      4. metadata-eval 85.4%

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

      5. metadata-eval 85.4%

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

      6. times-frac 85.4%

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

      7. *-commutative 85.4%

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

      8. times-frac 85.4%

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

      9. *-commutative 85.4%

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

      10. associate-/r* 85.3%

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

      11. associate-*l/ 85.3%

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

   3. Simplified 85.2%

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

      1. flip-- 84.9%

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

      2. add-sqr-sqrt 86.0%

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

      3. associate-*r* 86.1%

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

      4. associate-*r* 86.0%

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

   5. Applied egg-rr 86.0%

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

   if 1.42999999999999994 < b

   1. Initial program 49.4%

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

      1. neg-sub0 49.4%

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

      2. associate-+l- 49.4%

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

      3. sub0-neg 49.4%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 49.4%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 49.4%

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

      6. metadata-eval 49.4%

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

      7. metadata-eval 49.4%

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

      8. times-frac 49.4%

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

      9. *-commutative 49.4%

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

      10. times-frac 49.4%

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

      11. associate-*l/ 49.4%

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

   3. Simplified 49.7%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 89.6%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5625 \cdot \frac{{c}^{3} \cdot {a}^{2}}{{b}^{5}} + \left(-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b} + -0.375 \cdot \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}}\right)} \]
   5. Step-by-step derivation

      1. fma-def 89.6%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, \frac{{c}^{3} \cdot {a}^{2}}{{b}^{5}}, -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b} + -0.375 \cdot \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}}\right)} \]

      2. associate-/l* 89.6%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, \color{blue}{\frac{{c}^{3}}{\frac{{b}^{5}}{{a}^{2}}}}, -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b} + -0.375 \cdot \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}}\right) \]

      3. unpow2 89.6%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, \frac{{c}^{3}}{\frac{{b}^{5}}{\color{blue}{a \cdot a}}}, -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b} + -0.375 \cdot \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}}\right) \]

      4. fma-def 89.6%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, \frac{{c}^{3}}{\frac{{b}^{5}}{a \cdot a}}, \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, -0.375 \cdot \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}}\right)}\right) \]

      5. associate-*r/ 89.6%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, \frac{{c}^{3}}{\frac{{b}^{5}}{a \cdot a}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \color{blue}{\frac{-0.375 \cdot \left({c}^{2} \cdot a\right)}{{b}^{3}}}\right)\right) \]

      6. *-commutative 89.6%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, \frac{{c}^{3}}{\frac{{b}^{5}}{a \cdot a}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \frac{-0.375 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot {c}^{2}\right)}}{{b}^{3}}\right)\right) \]

      7. associate-*r* 89.6%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, \frac{{c}^{3}}{\frac{{b}^{5}}{a \cdot a}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \frac{\color{blue}{\left(-0.375 \cdot a\right) \cdot {c}^{2}}}{{b}^{3}}\right)\right) \]

      8. unpow2 89.6%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, \frac{{c}^{3}}{\frac{{b}^{5}}{a \cdot a}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \frac{\left(-0.375 \cdot a\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot c\right)}}{{b}^{3}}\right)\right) \]

   6. Simplified 89.6%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, \frac{{c}^{3}}{\frac{{b}^{5}}{a \cdot a}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \frac{\left(-0.375 \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(c \cdot c\right)}{{b}^{3}}\right)\right)} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 88.9%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 1.43:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-0.3333333333333333 \cdot \frac{b \cdot b - \mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)}}}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, \frac{{c}^{3}}{\frac{{b}^{5}}{a \cdot a}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \frac{\left(c \cdot c\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot -0.375\right)}{{b}^{3}}\right)\right)\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 3: 89.6% accurate, 0.2× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := \mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)\\ \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 1.43:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-0.3333333333333333 \cdot \frac{b \cdot b - t_0}{b + \sqrt{t_0}}}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375, a \cdot \frac{c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{c}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \frac{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(-0.5625 \cdot {c}^{3}\right)}{{b}^{5}}\right)\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0 (fma b b (* a (* c -3.0)))))
   (if (<= b 1.43)
     (/ (* -0.3333333333333333 (/ (- (* b b) t_0) (+ b (sqrt t_0)))) a)
     (fma
      -0.375
      (* a (/ c (/ (pow b 3.0) c)))
      (fma
       -0.5
       (/ c b)
       (/ (* (* a a) (* -0.5625 (pow c 3.0))) (pow b 5.0)))))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double t_0 = fma(b, b, (a * (c * -3.0)));
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 1.43) {
		tmp = (-0.3333333333333333 * (((b * b) - t_0) / (b + sqrt(t_0)))) / a;
	} else {
		tmp = fma(-0.375, (a * (c / (pow(b, 3.0) / c))), fma(-0.5, (c / b), (((a * a) * (-0.5625 * pow(c, 3.0))) / pow(b, 5.0))));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	t_0 = fma(b, b, Float64(a * Float64(c * -3.0)))
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= 1.43)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-0.3333333333333333 * Float64(Float64(Float64(b * b) - t_0) / Float64(b + sqrt(t_0)))) / a);
	else
		tmp = fma(-0.375, Float64(a * Float64(c / Float64((b ^ 3.0) / c))), fma(-0.5, Float64(c / b), Float64(Float64(Float64(a * a) * Float64(-0.5625 * (c ^ 3.0))) / (b ^ 5.0))));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := Block[{t$95$0 = N[(b * b + N[(a * N[(c * -3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]}, If[LessEqual[b, 1.43], N[(N[(-0.3333333333333333 * N[(N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - t$95$0), $MachinePrecision] / N[(b + N[Sqrt[t$95$0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision], N[(-0.375 * N[(a * N[(c / N[(N[Power[b, 3.0], $MachinePrecision] / c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[(-0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] + N[(N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * N[(-0.5625 * N[Power[c, 3.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[Power[b, 5.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < 1.42999999999999994

   1. Initial program 85.4%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 85.4%

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

      2. metadata-eval 85.4%

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

      3. associate-/r/ 85.4%

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

      4. metadata-eval 85.4%

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

      5. metadata-eval 85.4%

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

      6. times-frac 85.4%

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

      7. *-commutative 85.4%

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

      8. times-frac 85.4%

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

      9. *-commutative 85.4%

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

      10. associate-/r* 85.3%

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

      11. associate-*l/ 85.3%

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

   3. Simplified 85.2%

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

      1. flip-- 84.9%

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

      2. add-sqr-sqrt 86.0%

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

      3. associate-*r* 86.1%

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

      4. associate-*r* 86.0%

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

   5. Applied egg-rr 86.0%

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

   if 1.42999999999999994 < b

   1. Initial program 49.4%

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

      1. neg-sub0 49.4%

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

      2. associate-+l- 49.4%

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

      3. sub0-neg 49.4%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 49.4%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 49.4%

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

      6. *-commutative 49.4%

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

      7. metadata-eval 49.4%

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

      8. metadata-eval 49.4%

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

      9. times-frac 49.4%

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

      10. *-commutative 49.4%

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

      11. times-frac 49.4%

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

   3. Simplified 49.7%

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

      1. div-inv 49.6%

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

   5. Applied egg-rr 49.6%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around inf 89.6%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5625 \cdot \frac{{c}^{3} \cdot {a}^{2}}{{b}^{5}} + \left(-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b} + -0.375 \cdot \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}}\right)} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate-+r+ 89.6%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(-0.5625 \cdot \frac{{c}^{3} \cdot {a}^{2}}{{b}^{5}} + -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right) + -0.375 \cdot \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}}} \]

      2. +-commutative 89.6%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.375 \cdot \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}} + \left(-0.5625 \cdot \frac{{c}^{3} \cdot {a}^{2}}{{b}^{5}} + -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right)} \]

      3. fma-def 89.6%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375, \frac{{c}^{2} \cdot a}{{b}^{3}}, -0.5625 \cdot \frac{{c}^{3} \cdot {a}^{2}}{{b}^{5}} + -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right)} \]

      4. associate-/l* 89.6%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375, \color{blue}{\frac{{c}^{2}}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}}, -0.5625 \cdot \frac{{c}^{3} \cdot {a}^{2}}{{b}^{5}} + -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right) \]

      5. associate-/r/ 89.6%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375, \color{blue}{\frac{{c}^{2}}{{b}^{3}} \cdot a}, -0.5625 \cdot \frac{{c}^{3} \cdot {a}^{2}}{{b}^{5}} + -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right) \]

      6. unpow2 89.6%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375, \frac{\color{blue}{c \cdot c}}{{b}^{3}} \cdot a, -0.5625 \cdot \frac{{c}^{3} \cdot {a}^{2}}{{b}^{5}} + -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right) \]

      7. associate-/l* 89.6%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375, \color{blue}{\frac{c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{c}}} \cdot a, -0.5625 \cdot \frac{{c}^{3} \cdot {a}^{2}}{{b}^{5}} + -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right) \]

      8. +-commutative 89.6%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375, \frac{c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{c}} \cdot a, \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b} + -0.5625 \cdot \frac{{c}^{3} \cdot {a}^{2}}{{b}^{5}}}\right) \]

      9. fma-def 89.6%

         \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375, \frac{c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{c}} \cdot a, \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, -0.5625 \cdot \frac{{c}^{3} \cdot {a}^{2}}{{b}^{5}}\right)}\right) \]

      10. associate-*r/ 89.6%

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375, \frac{c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{c}} \cdot a, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \color{blue}{\frac{-0.5625 \cdot \left({c}^{3} \cdot {a}^{2}\right)}{{b}^{5}}}\right)\right) \]

      11. associate-*r* 89.6%

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375, \frac{c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{c}} \cdot a, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \frac{\color{blue}{\left(-0.5625 \cdot {c}^{3}\right) \cdot {a}^{2}}}{{b}^{5}}\right)\right) \]

      12. unpow2 89.6%

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375, \frac{c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{c}} \cdot a, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \frac{\left(-0.5625 \cdot {c}^{3}\right) \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot a\right)}}{{b}^{5}}\right)\right) \]

   8. Simplified 89.6%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375, \frac{c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{c}} \cdot a, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \frac{\left(-0.5625 \cdot {c}^{3}\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right)}{{b}^{5}}\right)\right)} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 88.9%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 1.43:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-0.3333333333333333 \cdot \frac{b \cdot b - \mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)}}}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375, a \cdot \frac{c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{c}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \frac{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \left(-0.5625 \cdot {c}^{3}\right)}{{b}^{5}}\right)\right)\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 4: 76.7% accurate, 0.4× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3} \leq -5 \cdot 10^{-6}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.3333333333333333 \cdot \frac{b - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)}}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (/ (- (sqrt (- (* b b) (* c (* a 3.0)))) b) (* a 3.0)) -5e-6)
   (* -0.3333333333333333 (/ (- b (sqrt (fma b b (* a (* c -3.0))))) a))
   (* -0.5 (/ c b))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (((sqrt(((b * b) - (c * (a * 3.0)))) - b) / (a * 3.0)) <= -5e-6) {
		tmp = -0.3333333333333333 * ((b - sqrt(fma(b, b, (a * (c * -3.0))))) / a);
	} else {
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(Float64(sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(c * Float64(a * 3.0)))) - b) / Float64(a * 3.0)) <= -5e-6)
		tmp = Float64(-0.3333333333333333 * Float64(Float64(b - sqrt(fma(b, b, Float64(a * Float64(c * -3.0))))) / a));
	else
		tmp = Float64(-0.5 * Float64(c / b));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(c * N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], -5e-6], N[(-0.3333333333333333 * N[(N[(b - N[Sqrt[N[(b * b + N[(a * N[(c * -3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(-0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (/.f64 (+.f64 (neg.f64 b) (sqrt.f64 (-.f64 (*.f64 b b) (*.f64 (*.f64 3 a) c)))) (*.f64 3 a)) < -5.00000000000000041e-6

   1. Initial program 74.8%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 74.8%

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

      2. metadata-eval 74.8%

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

      3. associate-/l* 74.8%

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

      4. associate-*r/ 74.8%

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

      5. *-commutative 74.8%

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

      6. associate-*l/ 74.8%

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

      7. associate-*r/ 74.8%

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

      8. metadata-eval 74.8%

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

      9. metadata-eval 74.8%

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

      10. times-frac 74.8%

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

      11. neg-mul-1 74.8%

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

      12. distribute-rgt-neg-in 74.8%

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

      13. times-frac 74.7%

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

      14. metadata-eval 74.7%

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

      15. neg-mul-1 74.7%

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

   3. Simplified 74.9%

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

   if -5.00000000000000041e-6 < (/.f64 (+.f64 (neg.f64 b) (sqrt.f64 (-.f64 (*.f64 b b) (*.f64 (*.f64 3 a) c)))) (*.f64 3 a))

   1. Initial program 35.3%

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

      1. neg-sub0 35.3%

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

      2. associate-+l- 35.3%

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

      3. sub0-neg 35.3%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 35.3%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 35.3%

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

      6. metadata-eval 35.3%

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

      7. metadata-eval 35.3%

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

      8. times-frac 35.3%

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

      9. *-commutative 35.3%

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

      10. times-frac 35.3%

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

      11. associate-*l/ 35.3%

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

   3. Simplified 35.5%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 81.5%

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

4. Final simplification 77.9%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3} \leq -5 \cdot 10^{-6}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.3333333333333333 \cdot \frac{b - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)}}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 5: 76.7% accurate, 0.4× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3} \leq -5 \cdot 10^{-6}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (/ (- (sqrt (- (* b b) (* c (* a 3.0)))) b) (* a 3.0)) -5e-6)
   (* (- (sqrt (fma b b (* a (* c -3.0)))) b) (/ 0.3333333333333333 a))
   (* -0.5 (/ c b))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (((sqrt(((b * b) - (c * (a * 3.0)))) - b) / (a * 3.0)) <= -5e-6) {
		tmp = (sqrt(fma(b, b, (a * (c * -3.0)))) - b) * (0.3333333333333333 / a);
	} else {
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(Float64(sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(c * Float64(a * 3.0)))) - b) / Float64(a * 3.0)) <= -5e-6)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(sqrt(fma(b, b, Float64(a * Float64(c * -3.0)))) - b) * Float64(0.3333333333333333 / a));
	else
		tmp = Float64(-0.5 * Float64(c / b));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(c * N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], -5e-6], N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(b * b + N[(a * N[(c * -3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] * N[(0.3333333333333333 / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(-0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (/.f64 (+.f64 (neg.f64 b) (sqrt.f64 (-.f64 (*.f64 b b) (*.f64 (*.f64 3 a) c)))) (*.f64 3 a)) < -5.00000000000000041e-6

   1. Initial program 74.8%

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

      1. neg-sub0 74.8%

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

      2. associate-+l- 74.8%

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

      3. sub0-neg 74.8%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 74.8%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 74.8%

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

      6. *-commutative 74.8%

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

      7. metadata-eval 74.8%

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

      8. metadata-eval 74.8%

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

      9. times-frac 74.8%

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

      10. *-commutative 74.8%

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

      11. times-frac 74.8%

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

   3. Simplified 74.9%

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

   if -5.00000000000000041e-6 < (/.f64 (+.f64 (neg.f64 b) (sqrt.f64 (-.f64 (*.f64 b b) (*.f64 (*.f64 3 a) c)))) (*.f64 3 a))

   1. Initial program 35.3%

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

      1. neg-sub0 35.3%

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

      2. associate-+l- 35.3%

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

      3. sub0-neg 35.3%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 35.3%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 35.3%

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

      6. metadata-eval 35.3%

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

      7. metadata-eval 35.3%

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

      8. times-frac 35.3%

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

      9. *-commutative 35.3%

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

      10. times-frac 35.3%

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

      11. associate-*l/ 35.3%

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

   3. Simplified 35.5%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 81.5%

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

4. Final simplification 77.9%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3} \leq -5 \cdot 10^{-6}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 6: 76.7% accurate, 0.4× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3} \leq -5 \cdot 10^{-6}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (/ (- (sqrt (- (* b b) (* c (* a 3.0)))) b) (* a 3.0)) -5e-6)
   (/ (- (sqrt (fma b b (* a (* c -3.0)))) b) (* a 3.0))
   (* -0.5 (/ c b))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (((sqrt(((b * b) - (c * (a * 3.0)))) - b) / (a * 3.0)) <= -5e-6) {
		tmp = (sqrt(fma(b, b, (a * (c * -3.0)))) - b) / (a * 3.0);
	} else {
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(Float64(sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(c * Float64(a * 3.0)))) - b) / Float64(a * 3.0)) <= -5e-6)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(sqrt(fma(b, b, Float64(a * Float64(c * -3.0)))) - b) / Float64(a * 3.0));
	else
		tmp = Float64(-0.5 * Float64(c / b));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(c * N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], -5e-6], N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(b * b + N[(a * N[(c * -3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(-0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (/.f64 (+.f64 (neg.f64 b) (sqrt.f64 (-.f64 (*.f64 b b) (*.f64 (*.f64 3 a) c)))) (*.f64 3 a)) < -5.00000000000000041e-6

   1. Initial program 74.8%

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

      1. neg-sub0 74.8%

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

      2. associate-+l- 74.8%

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

      3. sub0-neg 74.8%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 74.8%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 74.8%

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

      6. metadata-eval 74.8%

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

      7. metadata-eval 74.8%

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

      8. times-frac 74.8%

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

      9. *-commutative 74.8%

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

      10. times-frac 74.8%

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

      11. associate-*l/ 74.8%

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

   3. Simplified 75.0%

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

   if -5.00000000000000041e-6 < (/.f64 (+.f64 (neg.f64 b) (sqrt.f64 (-.f64 (*.f64 b b) (*.f64 (*.f64 3 a) c)))) (*.f64 3 a))

   1. Initial program 35.3%

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

      1. neg-sub0 35.3%

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

      2. associate-+l- 35.3%

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

      3. sub0-neg 35.3%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 35.3%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 35.3%

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

      6. metadata-eval 35.3%

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

      7. metadata-eval 35.3%

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

      8. times-frac 35.3%

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

      9. *-commutative 35.3%

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

      10. times-frac 35.3%

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

      11. associate-*l/ 35.3%

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

   3. Simplified 35.5%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 81.5%

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

4. Final simplification 77.9%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3} \leq -5 \cdot 10^{-6}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 7: 84.8% accurate, 0.4× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := \mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)\\ \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 250:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-0.3333333333333333 \cdot \frac{b \cdot b - t_0}{b + \sqrt{t_0}}}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \frac{\left(c \cdot c\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot -0.375\right)}{{b}^{3}}\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0 (fma b b (* a (* c -3.0)))))
   (if (<= b 250.0)
     (/ (* -0.3333333333333333 (/ (- (* b b) t_0) (+ b (sqrt t_0)))) a)
     (fma -0.5 (/ c b) (/ (* (* c c) (* a -0.375)) (pow b 3.0))))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double t_0 = fma(b, b, (a * (c * -3.0)));
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 250.0) {
		tmp = (-0.3333333333333333 * (((b * b) - t_0) / (b + sqrt(t_0)))) / a;
	} else {
		tmp = fma(-0.5, (c / b), (((c * c) * (a * -0.375)) / pow(b, 3.0)));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	t_0 = fma(b, b, Float64(a * Float64(c * -3.0)))
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= 250.0)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-0.3333333333333333 * Float64(Float64(Float64(b * b) - t_0) / Float64(b + sqrt(t_0)))) / a);
	else
		tmp = fma(-0.5, Float64(c / b), Float64(Float64(Float64(c * c) * Float64(a * -0.375)) / (b ^ 3.0)));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := Block[{t$95$0 = N[(b * b + N[(a * N[(c * -3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]}, If[LessEqual[b, 250.0], N[(N[(-0.3333333333333333 * N[(N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - t$95$0), $MachinePrecision] / N[(b + N[Sqrt[t$95$0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision], N[(-0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] + N[(N[(N[(c * c), $MachinePrecision] * N[(a * -0.375), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[Power[b, 3.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < 250

   1. Initial program 79.3%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 79.3%

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

      2. metadata-eval 79.3%

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

      3. associate-/r/ 79.3%

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

      4. metadata-eval 79.3%

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

      5. metadata-eval 79.3%

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

      6. times-frac 79.3%

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

      7. *-commutative 79.3%

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

      8. times-frac 79.3%

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

      9. *-commutative 79.3%

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

      10. associate-/r* 79.2%

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

      11. associate-*l/ 79.2%

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

   3. Simplified 79.3%

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

      1. flip-- 79.1%

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

      2. add-sqr-sqrt 80.4%

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

      3. associate-*r* 80.5%

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

      4. associate-*r* 80.4%

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

   5. Applied egg-rr 80.4%

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

   if 250 < b

   1. Initial program 45.1%

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

      1. neg-sub0 45.1%

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

      2. associate-+l- 45.1%

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

      3. sub0-neg 45.1%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 45.1%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 45.1%

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

      6. metadata-eval 45.1%

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

      7. metadata-eval 45.1%

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

      8. times-frac 45.1%

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

      9. *-commutative 45.1%

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

      10. times-frac 45.1%

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

      11. associate-*l/ 45.1%

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

   3. Simplified 45.3%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 88.7%

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

      1. fma-def 88.7%

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

      2. associate-*r/ 88.7%

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

      3. *-commutative 88.7%

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

      4. associate-*r* 88.7%

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

      5. unpow2 88.7%

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

   6. Simplified 88.7%

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

4. Final simplification 85.9%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 250:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-0.3333333333333333 \cdot \frac{b \cdot b - \mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)}}}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \frac{\left(c \cdot c\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot -0.375\right)}{{b}^{3}}\right)\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 8: 76.6% accurate, 0.5× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := \frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3}\\ \mathbf{if}\;t_0 \leq -5 \cdot 10^{-6}:\\ \;\;\;\;t_0\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0 (/ (- (sqrt (- (* b b) (* c (* a 3.0)))) b) (* a 3.0))))
   (if (<= t_0 -5e-6) t_0 (* -0.5 (/ c b)))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double t_0 = (sqrt(((b * b) - (c * (a * 3.0)))) - b) / (a * 3.0);
	double tmp;
	if (t_0 <= -5e-6) {
		tmp = t_0;
	} else {
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b, c)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8), intent (in) :: c
    real(8) :: t_0
    real(8) :: tmp
    t_0 = (sqrt(((b * b) - (c * (a * 3.0d0)))) - b) / (a * 3.0d0)
    if (t_0 <= (-5d-6)) then
        tmp = t_0
    else
        tmp = (-0.5d0) * (c / b)
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double t_0 = (Math.sqrt(((b * b) - (c * (a * 3.0)))) - b) / (a * 3.0);
	double tmp;
	if (t_0 <= -5e-6) {
		tmp = t_0;
	} else {
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	t_0 = (math.sqrt(((b * b) - (c * (a * 3.0)))) - b) / (a * 3.0)
	tmp = 0
	if t_0 <= -5e-6:
		tmp = t_0
	else:
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b)
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	t_0 = Float64(Float64(sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(c * Float64(a * 3.0)))) - b) / Float64(a * 3.0))
	tmp = 0.0
	if (t_0 <= -5e-6)
		tmp = t_0;
	else
		tmp = Float64(-0.5 * Float64(c / b));
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	t_0 = (sqrt(((b * b) - (c * (a * 3.0)))) - b) / (a * 3.0);
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (t_0 <= -5e-6)
		tmp = t_0;
	else
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := Block[{t$95$0 = N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(c * N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]}, If[LessEqual[t$95$0, -5e-6], t$95$0, N[(-0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (/.f64 (+.f64 (neg.f64 b) (sqrt.f64 (-.f64 (*.f64 b b) (*.f64 (*.f64 3 a) c)))) (*.f64 3 a)) < -5.00000000000000041e-6

   1. Initial program 74.8%

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

   if -5.00000000000000041e-6 < (/.f64 (+.f64 (neg.f64 b) (sqrt.f64 (-.f64 (*.f64 b b) (*.f64 (*.f64 3 a) c)))) (*.f64 3 a))

   1. Initial program 35.3%

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

      1. neg-sub0 35.3%

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

      2. associate-+l- 35.3%

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

      3. sub0-neg 35.3%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 35.3%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 35.3%

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

      6. metadata-eval 35.3%

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

      7. metadata-eval 35.3%

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

      8. times-frac 35.3%

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

      9. *-commutative 35.3%

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

      10. times-frac 35.3%

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

      11. associate-*l/ 35.3%

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

   3. Simplified 35.5%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 81.5%

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

4. Final simplification 77.8%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3} \leq -5 \cdot 10^{-6}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 9: 84.5% accurate, 0.5× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 250:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \frac{\left(c \cdot c\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot -0.375\right)}{{b}^{3}}\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b 250.0)
   (/ (- (sqrt (fma b b (* a (* c -3.0)))) b) (* a 3.0))
   (fma -0.5 (/ c b) (/ (* (* c c) (* a -0.375)) (pow b 3.0)))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 250.0) {
		tmp = (sqrt(fma(b, b, (a * (c * -3.0)))) - b) / (a * 3.0);
	} else {
		tmp = fma(-0.5, (c / b), (((c * c) * (a * -0.375)) / pow(b, 3.0)));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= 250.0)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(sqrt(fma(b, b, Float64(a * Float64(c * -3.0)))) - b) / Float64(a * 3.0));
	else
		tmp = fma(-0.5, Float64(c / b), Float64(Float64(Float64(c * c) * Float64(a * -0.375)) / (b ^ 3.0)));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, 250.0], N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(b * b + N[(a * N[(c * -3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(-0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] + N[(N[(N[(c * c), $MachinePrecision] * N[(a * -0.375), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[Power[b, 3.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < 250

   1. Initial program 79.3%

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

      1. neg-sub0 79.3%

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

      2. associate-+l- 79.3%

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

      3. sub0-neg 79.3%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 79.3%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 79.3%

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

      6. metadata-eval 79.3%

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

      7. metadata-eval 79.3%

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

      8. times-frac 79.3%

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

      9. *-commutative 79.3%

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

      10. times-frac 79.3%

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

      11. associate-*l/ 79.3%

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

   3. Simplified 79.4%

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

   if 250 < b

   1. Initial program 45.1%

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

      1. neg-sub0 45.1%

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

      2. associate-+l- 45.1%

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

      3. sub0-neg 45.1%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 45.1%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 45.1%

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

      6. metadata-eval 45.1%

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

      7. metadata-eval 45.1%

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

      8. times-frac 45.1%

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

      9. *-commutative 45.1%

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

      10. times-frac 45.1%

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

      11. associate-*l/ 45.1%

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

   3. Simplified 45.3%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 88.7%

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

      1. fma-def 88.7%

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

      2. associate-*r/ 88.7%

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

      3. *-commutative 88.7%

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

      4. associate-*r* 88.7%

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

      5. unpow2 88.7%

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

   6. Simplified 88.7%

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

4. Final simplification 85.6%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 250:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \frac{\left(c \cdot c\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot -0.375\right)}{{b}^{3}}\right)\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 10: 74.2% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 650:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - 3 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b 650.0)
   (/ (- (sqrt (- (* b b) (* 3.0 (* a c)))) b) (* a 3.0))
   (* -0.5 (/ c b))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 650.0) {
		tmp = (sqrt(((b * b) - (3.0 * (a * c)))) - b) / (a * 3.0);
	} else {
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b, c)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8), intent (in) :: c
    real(8) :: tmp
    if (b <= 650.0d0) then
        tmp = (sqrt(((b * b) - (3.0d0 * (a * c)))) - b) / (a * 3.0d0)
    else
        tmp = (-0.5d0) * (c / b)
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 650.0) {
		tmp = (Math.sqrt(((b * b) - (3.0 * (a * c)))) - b) / (a * 3.0);
	} else {
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= 650.0:
		tmp = (math.sqrt(((b * b) - (3.0 * (a * c)))) - b) / (a * 3.0)
	else:
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b)
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= 650.0)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(3.0 * Float64(a * c)))) - b) / Float64(a * 3.0));
	else
		tmp = Float64(-0.5 * Float64(c / b));
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= 650.0)
		tmp = (sqrt(((b * b) - (3.0 * (a * c)))) - b) / (a * 3.0);
	else
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, 650.0], N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(3.0 * N[(a * c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(-0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < 650

   1. Initial program 78.5%

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

      1. neg-sub0 78.5%

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

      2. associate-+l- 78.5%

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

      3. sub0-neg 78.5%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 78.5%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 78.5%

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

      6. metadata-eval 78.5%

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

      7. metadata-eval 78.5%

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

      8. times-frac 78.5%

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

      9. *-commutative 78.5%

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

      10. times-frac 78.5%

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

      11. associate-*l/ 78.5%

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

   3. Simplified 78.5%

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

   if 650 < b

   1. Initial program 44.5%

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

      1. neg-sub0 44.5%

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

      2. associate-+l- 44.5%

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

      3. sub0-neg 44.5%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 44.5%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 44.5%

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

      6. metadata-eval 44.5%

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

      7. metadata-eval 44.5%

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

      8. times-frac 44.5%

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

      9. *-commutative 44.5%

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

      10. times-frac 44.5%

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

      11. associate-*l/ 44.5%

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

   3. Simplified 44.8%

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

   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 75.6%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 650:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - 3 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 11: 64.6% accurate, 23.2× speedup

Math

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

FPCore

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

C

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

Fortran

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

Java

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

Python

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

Julia

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

MATLAB

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

Wolfram

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

Derivation

1. Initial program 56.6%

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

   1. neg-sub0 56.6%

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

   2. associate-+l- 56.6%

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

   3. sub0-neg 56.6%

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

   4. neg-mul-1 56.6%

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

   5. associate-*r/ 56.6%

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

   6. metadata-eval 56.6%

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

   7. metadata-eval 56.6%

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

   8. times-frac 56.6%

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

   9. *-commutative 56.6%

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

   10. times-frac 56.6%

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

   11. associate-*l/ 56.6%

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

3. Simplified 56.8%

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

4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 63.4%

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

5. Final simplification 63.4%

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2023240 
(FPCore (a b c)
  :name "Cubic critical, narrow range"
  :precision binary64
  :pre (and (and (and (< 1.0536712127723509e-8 a) (< a 94906265.62425156)) (and (< 1.0536712127723509e-8 b) (< b 94906265.62425156))) (and (< 1.0536712127723509e-8 c) (< c 94906265.62425156)))
  (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 3.0 a) c)))) (* 3.0 a)))