Cubic critical, narrow range

Percentage Accurate: 55.5% → 91.2%

Time: 13.6s

Alternatives: 10

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: 55.5% 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: 91.2% accurate, 0.1× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c\\ t_1 := \sqrt{b \cdot b - t_0}\\ \mathbf{if}\;\frac{t_1 - b}{3 \cdot a} \leq -0.073:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\frac{{\left(-b\right)}^{2} + \left(t_0 - b \cdot b\right)}{\left(-b\right) - t_1}}{3 \cdot a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, a \cdot \frac{a \cdot {c}^{3}}{{b}^{5}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \mathsf{fma}\left(a, \left(c \cdot \frac{c}{{b}^{3}}\right) \cdot -0.375, \frac{-1.0546875 \cdot \frac{{\left(a \cdot c\right)}^{4}}{a}}{{b}^{7}}\right)\right)\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0 (* (* 3.0 a) c)) (t_1 (sqrt (- (* b b) t_0))))
   (if (<= (/ (- t_1 b) (* 3.0 a)) -0.073)
     (/ (/ (+ (pow (- b) 2.0) (- t_0 (* b b))) (- (- b) t_1)) (* 3.0 a))
     (fma
      -0.5625
      (* a (/ (* a (pow c 3.0)) (pow b 5.0)))
      (fma
       -0.5
       (/ c b)
       (fma
        a
        (* (* c (/ c (pow b 3.0))) -0.375)
        (/ (* -1.0546875 (/ (pow (* a c) 4.0) a)) (pow b 7.0))))))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double t_0 = (3.0 * a) * c;
	double t_1 = sqrt(((b * b) - t_0));
	double tmp;
	if (((t_1 - b) / (3.0 * a)) <= -0.073) {
		tmp = ((pow(-b, 2.0) + (t_0 - (b * b))) / (-b - t_1)) / (3.0 * a);
	} else {
		tmp = fma(-0.5625, (a * ((a * pow(c, 3.0)) / pow(b, 5.0))), fma(-0.5, (c / b), fma(a, ((c * (c / pow(b, 3.0))) * -0.375), ((-1.0546875 * (pow((a * c), 4.0) / a)) / pow(b, 7.0)))));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	t_0 = Float64(Float64(3.0 * a) * c)
	t_1 = sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - t_0))
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(Float64(t_1 - b) / Float64(3.0 * a)) <= -0.073)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(Float64((Float64(-b) ^ 2.0) + Float64(t_0 - Float64(b * b))) / Float64(Float64(-b) - t_1)) / Float64(3.0 * a));
	else
		tmp = fma(-0.5625, Float64(a * Float64(Float64(a * (c ^ 3.0)) / (b ^ 5.0))), fma(-0.5, Float64(c / b), fma(a, Float64(Float64(c * Float64(c / (b ^ 3.0))) * -0.375), Float64(Float64(-1.0546875 * Float64((Float64(a * c) ^ 4.0) / a)) / (b ^ 7.0)))));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := Block[{t$95$0 = N[(N[(3.0 * a), $MachinePrecision] * c), $MachinePrecision]}, Block[{t$95$1 = N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - t$95$0), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]}, If[LessEqual[N[(N[(t$95$1 - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(3.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], -0.073], N[(N[(N[(N[Power[(-b), 2.0], $MachinePrecision] + N[(t$95$0 - N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[((-b) - t$95$1), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(3.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(-0.5625 * N[(a * N[(N[(a * N[Power[c, 3.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[Power[b, 5.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[(-0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] + N[(a * N[(N[(c * N[(c / N[Power[b, 3.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * -0.375), $MachinePrecision] + N[(N[(-1.0546875 * N[(N[Power[N[(a * c), $MachinePrecision], 4.0], $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[Power[b, 7.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (/.f64 (+.f64 (neg.f64 b) (sqrt.f64 (-.f64 (*.f64 b b) (*.f64 (*.f64 3 a) c)))) (*.f64 3 a)) < -0.0729999999999999954

   1. Initial program 84.0%

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

      1. flip-+ 83.7%

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

      2. pow2 83.7%

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

      3. add-sqr-sqrt 85.4%

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

      4. *-commutative 85.4%

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

      5. *-commutative 85.4%

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

      6. *-commutative 85.4%

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

      7. *-commutative 85.4%

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

   3. Applied egg-rr 85.4%

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

   if -0.0729999999999999954 < (/.f64 (+.f64 (neg.f64 b) (sqrt.f64 (-.f64 (*.f64 b b) (*.f64 (*.f64 3 a) c)))) (*.f64 3 a))

   1. Initial program 44.9%

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

      1. neg-sub0 44.9%

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

      2. associate-+l- 44.9%

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

      3. sub0-neg 44.9%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 44.9%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 44.9%

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

      6. *-commutative 44.9%

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

      7. metadata-eval 44.9%

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

      8. metadata-eval 44.9%

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

      9. times-frac 44.9%

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

      10. *-commutative 44.9%

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

      11. times-frac 44.9%

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

   3. Simplified 44.9%

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

      1. add-cube-cbrt 44.9%

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

      2. pow3 44.9%

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

   5. Applied egg-rr 44.9%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in b around inf 96.5%

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

   8. Simplified 96.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, a \cdot \frac{{c}^{3} \cdot a}{{b}^{5}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \mathsf{fma}\left(a, \left(\frac{c}{{b}^{3}} \cdot c\right) \cdot -0.375, -0.16666666666666666 \cdot \frac{\frac{{\left(c \cdot a\right)}^{4}}{\frac{a}{6.328125}}}{{b}^{7}}\right)\right)\right)} \]
   9. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate-*r/ 96.5%

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

      2. associate-/r/ 96.5%

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

   10. Applied egg-rr 96.5%

       \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, a \cdot \frac{{c}^{3} \cdot a}{{b}^{5}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \mathsf{fma}\left(a, \left(\frac{c}{{b}^{3}} \cdot c\right) \cdot -0.375, \color{blue}{\frac{-0.16666666666666666 \cdot \left(\frac{{\left(c \cdot a\right)}^{4}}{a} \cdot 6.328125\right)}{{b}^{7}}}\right)\right)\right) \]
   11. Step-by-step derivation

       1. *-commutative 96.5%

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

       2. associate-*r* 96.5%

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

       3. metadata-eval 96.5%

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, a \cdot \frac{{c}^{3} \cdot a}{{b}^{5}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \mathsf{fma}\left(a, \left(\frac{c}{{b}^{3}} \cdot c\right) \cdot -0.375, \frac{\color{blue}{-1.0546875} \cdot \frac{{\left(c \cdot a\right)}^{4}}{a}}{{b}^{7}}\right)\right)\right) \]

   12. Simplified 96.5%

       \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, a \cdot \frac{{c}^{3} \cdot a}{{b}^{5}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \mathsf{fma}\left(a, \left(\frac{c}{{b}^{3}} \cdot c\right) \cdot -0.375, \color{blue}{\frac{-1.0546875 \cdot \frac{{\left(c \cdot a\right)}^{4}}{a}}{{b}^{7}}}\right)\right)\right) \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 94.3%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b}{3 \cdot a} \leq -0.073:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\frac{{\left(-b\right)}^{2} + \left(\left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c - b \cdot b\right)}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}}{3 \cdot a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, a \cdot \frac{a \cdot {c}^{3}}{{b}^{5}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5, \frac{c}{b}, \mathsf{fma}\left(a, \left(c \cdot \frac{c}{{b}^{3}}\right) \cdot -0.375, \frac{-1.0546875 \cdot \frac{{\left(a \cdot c\right)}^{4}}{a}}{{b}^{7}}\right)\right)\right)\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 2: 89.5% accurate, 0.2× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c\\ t_1 := \sqrt{b \cdot b - t_0}\\ \mathbf{if}\;\frac{t_1 - b}{3 \cdot a} \leq -0.073:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\frac{{\left(-b\right)}^{2} + \left(t_0 - b \cdot b\right)}{\left(-b\right) - t_1}}{3 \cdot a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, \frac{{c}^{3}}{\frac{{b}^{5}}{a \cdot a}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375, \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}, -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right)\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0 (* (* 3.0 a) c)) (t_1 (sqrt (- (* b b) t_0))))
   (if (<= (/ (- t_1 b) (* 3.0 a)) -0.073)
     (/ (/ (+ (pow (- b) 2.0) (- t_0 (* b b))) (- (- b) t_1)) (* 3.0 a))
     (fma
      -0.5625
      (/ (pow c 3.0) (/ (pow b 5.0) (* a a)))
      (fma -0.375 (/ (* c c) (/ (pow b 3.0) a)) (* -0.5 (/ c b)))))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double t_0 = (3.0 * a) * c;
	double t_1 = sqrt(((b * b) - t_0));
	double tmp;
	if (((t_1 - b) / (3.0 * a)) <= -0.073) {
		tmp = ((pow(-b, 2.0) + (t_0 - (b * b))) / (-b - t_1)) / (3.0 * a);
	} else {
		tmp = fma(-0.5625, (pow(c, 3.0) / (pow(b, 5.0) / (a * a))), fma(-0.375, ((c * c) / (pow(b, 3.0) / a)), (-0.5 * (c / b))));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	t_0 = Float64(Float64(3.0 * a) * c)
	t_1 = sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - t_0))
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(Float64(t_1 - b) / Float64(3.0 * a)) <= -0.073)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(Float64((Float64(-b) ^ 2.0) + Float64(t_0 - Float64(b * b))) / Float64(Float64(-b) - t_1)) / Float64(3.0 * a));
	else
		tmp = fma(-0.5625, Float64((c ^ 3.0) / Float64((b ^ 5.0) / Float64(a * a))), fma(-0.375, Float64(Float64(c * c) / Float64((b ^ 3.0) / a)), Float64(-0.5 * Float64(c / b))));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := Block[{t$95$0 = N[(N[(3.0 * a), $MachinePrecision] * c), $MachinePrecision]}, Block[{t$95$1 = N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - t$95$0), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]}, If[LessEqual[N[(N[(t$95$1 - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(3.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], -0.073], N[(N[(N[(N[Power[(-b), 2.0], $MachinePrecision] + N[(t$95$0 - N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[((-b) - t$95$1), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(3.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $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[(-0.375 * N[(N[(c * c), $MachinePrecision] / N[(N[Power[b, 3.0], $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[(-0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (/.f64 (+.f64 (neg.f64 b) (sqrt.f64 (-.f64 (*.f64 b b) (*.f64 (*.f64 3 a) c)))) (*.f64 3 a)) < -0.0729999999999999954

   1. Initial program 84.0%

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

      1. flip-+ 83.7%

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

      2. pow2 83.7%

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

      3. add-sqr-sqrt 85.4%

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

      4. *-commutative 85.4%

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

      5. *-commutative 85.4%

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

      6. *-commutative 85.4%

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

      7. *-commutative 85.4%

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

   3. Applied egg-rr 85.4%

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

   if -0.0729999999999999954 < (/.f64 (+.f64 (neg.f64 b) (sqrt.f64 (-.f64 (*.f64 b b) (*.f64 (*.f64 3 a) c)))) (*.f64 3 a))

   1. Initial program 44.9%

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

      1. neg-sub0 44.9%

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

      2. associate-+l- 44.9%

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

      3. sub0-neg 44.9%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 44.9%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 44.9%

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

      6. *-commutative 44.9%

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

      7. metadata-eval 44.9%

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

      8. metadata-eval 44.9%

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

      9. times-frac 44.9%

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

      10. *-commutative 44.9%

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

      11. times-frac 44.9%

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

   3. Simplified 44.9%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 94.2%

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

      1. fma-def 94.2%

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

      2. associate-/l* 94.2%

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

      3. unpow2 94.2%

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

      4. +-commutative 94.2%

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

      5. fma-def 94.2%

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

      6. associate-/l* 94.2%

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

      7. unpow2 94.2%

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

   6. Simplified 94.2%

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

4. Final simplification 92.5%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b}{3 \cdot a} \leq -0.073:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\frac{{\left(-b\right)}^{2} + \left(\left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c - b \cdot b\right)}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}}{3 \cdot a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, \frac{{c}^{3}}{\frac{{b}^{5}}{a \cdot a}}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375, \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}, -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right)\right)\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 3: 85.7% accurate, 0.3× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c\\ t_1 := \sqrt{b \cdot b - t_0}\\ \mathbf{if}\;\frac{t_1 - b}{3 \cdot a} \leq -0.0035:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\frac{{\left(-b\right)}^{2} + \left(t_0 - b \cdot b\right)}{\left(-b\right) - t_1}}{3 \cdot a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375, \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}, -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0 (* (* 3.0 a) c)) (t_1 (sqrt (- (* b b) t_0))))
   (if (<= (/ (- t_1 b) (* 3.0 a)) -0.0035)
     (/ (/ (+ (pow (- b) 2.0) (- t_0 (* b b))) (- (- b) t_1)) (* 3.0 a))
     (fma -0.375 (/ (* c c) (/ (pow b 3.0) a)) (* -0.5 (/ c b))))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double t_0 = (3.0 * a) * c;
	double t_1 = sqrt(((b * b) - t_0));
	double tmp;
	if (((t_1 - b) / (3.0 * a)) <= -0.0035) {
		tmp = ((pow(-b, 2.0) + (t_0 - (b * b))) / (-b - t_1)) / (3.0 * a);
	} else {
		tmp = fma(-0.375, ((c * c) / (pow(b, 3.0) / a)), (-0.5 * (c / b)));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	t_0 = Float64(Float64(3.0 * a) * c)
	t_1 = sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - t_0))
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(Float64(t_1 - b) / Float64(3.0 * a)) <= -0.0035)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(Float64((Float64(-b) ^ 2.0) + Float64(t_0 - Float64(b * b))) / Float64(Float64(-b) - t_1)) / Float64(3.0 * a));
	else
		tmp = fma(-0.375, Float64(Float64(c * c) / Float64((b ^ 3.0) / a)), Float64(-0.5 * Float64(c / b)));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := Block[{t$95$0 = N[(N[(3.0 * a), $MachinePrecision] * c), $MachinePrecision]}, Block[{t$95$1 = N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - t$95$0), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]}, If[LessEqual[N[(N[(t$95$1 - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(3.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], -0.0035], N[(N[(N[(N[Power[(-b), 2.0], $MachinePrecision] + N[(t$95$0 - N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[((-b) - t$95$1), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(3.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(-0.375 * N[(N[(c * c), $MachinePrecision] / N[(N[Power[b, 3.0], $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[(-0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (/.f64 (+.f64 (neg.f64 b) (sqrt.f64 (-.f64 (*.f64 b b) (*.f64 (*.f64 3 a) c)))) (*.f64 3 a)) < -0.00350000000000000007

   1. Initial program 81.1%

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

      1. flip-+ 81.0%

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

      2. pow2 81.0%

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

      3. add-sqr-sqrt 82.7%

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

      4. *-commutative 82.7%

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

      5. *-commutative 82.7%

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

      6. *-commutative 82.7%

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

      7. *-commutative 82.7%

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

   3. Applied egg-rr 82.7%

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

   if -0.00350000000000000007 < (/.f64 (+.f64 (neg.f64 b) (sqrt.f64 (-.f64 (*.f64 b b) (*.f64 (*.f64 3 a) c)))) (*.f64 3 a))

   1. Initial program 42.0%

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

      1. neg-sub0 42.0%

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

      2. associate-+l- 42.0%

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

      3. sub0-neg 42.0%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 42.0%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 42.0%

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

      6. *-commutative 42.0%

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

      7. metadata-eval 42.0%

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

      8. metadata-eval 42.0%

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

      9. times-frac 42.0%

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

      10. *-commutative 42.0%

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

      11. times-frac 42.0%

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

   3. Simplified 42.0%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 90.8%

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

      1. +-commutative 90.8%

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

      2. fma-def 90.8%

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

      3. associate-/l* 90.8%

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

      4. unpow2 90.8%

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

   6. Simplified 90.8%

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

4. Final simplification 88.6%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b}{3 \cdot a} \leq -0.0035:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\frac{{\left(-b\right)}^{2} + \left(\left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c - b \cdot b\right)}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}}{3 \cdot a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375, \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}, -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right)\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 4: 85.2% accurate, 0.4× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b}{3 \cdot a} \leq -0.01:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375, \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}, -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right)\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (/ (- (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 3.0 a) c))) b) (* 3.0 a)) -0.01)
   (* (- (sqrt (fma b b (* a (* c -3.0)))) b) (/ 0.3333333333333333 a))
   (fma -0.375 (/ (* c c) (/ (pow b 3.0) a)) (* -0.5 (/ c b)))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (((sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c))) - b) / (3.0 * a)) <= -0.01) {
		tmp = (sqrt(fma(b, b, (a * (c * -3.0)))) - b) * (0.3333333333333333 / a);
	} else {
		tmp = fma(-0.375, ((c * c) / (pow(b, 3.0) / a)), (-0.5 * (c / b)));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(Float64(sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(Float64(3.0 * a) * c))) - b) / Float64(3.0 * a)) <= -0.01)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(sqrt(fma(b, b, Float64(a * Float64(c * -3.0)))) - b) * Float64(0.3333333333333333 / a));
	else
		tmp = fma(-0.375, Float64(Float64(c * c) / Float64((b ^ 3.0) / a)), Float64(-0.5 * Float64(c / b)));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(N[(3.0 * a), $MachinePrecision] * c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(3.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], -0.01], 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[(-0.375 * N[(N[(c * c), $MachinePrecision] / N[(N[Power[b, 3.0], $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[(-0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if (/.f64 (+.f64 (neg.f64 b) (sqrt.f64 (-.f64 (*.f64 b b) (*.f64 (*.f64 3 a) c)))) (*.f64 3 a)) < -0.0100000000000000002

   1. Initial program 82.2%

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

      1. neg-sub0 82.2%

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

      2. associate-+l- 82.2%

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

      3. sub0-neg 82.2%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 82.2%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 82.2%

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

      6. *-commutative 82.2%

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

      7. metadata-eval 82.2%

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

      8. metadata-eval 82.2%

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

      9. times-frac 82.2%

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

      10. *-commutative 82.2%

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

      11. times-frac 82.2%

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

   3. Simplified 82.3%

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

   if -0.0100000000000000002 < (/.f64 (+.f64 (neg.f64 b) (sqrt.f64 (-.f64 (*.f64 b b) (*.f64 (*.f64 3 a) c)))) (*.f64 3 a))

   1. Initial program 43.4%

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

      1. neg-sub0 43.4%

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

      2. associate-+l- 43.4%

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

      3. sub0-neg 43.4%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 43.4%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 43.4%

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

      6. *-commutative 43.4%

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

      7. metadata-eval 43.4%

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

      8. metadata-eval 43.4%

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

      9. times-frac 43.4%

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

      10. *-commutative 43.4%

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

      11. times-frac 43.4%

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

   3. Simplified 43.5%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 90.1%

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

      1. +-commutative 90.1%

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

      2. fma-def 90.1%

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

      3. associate-/l* 90.1%

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

      4. unpow2 90.1%

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

   6. Simplified 90.1%

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

4. Final simplification 88.2%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b}{3 \cdot a} \leq -0.01:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375, \frac{c \cdot c}{\frac{{b}^{3}}{a}}, -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right)\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 5: 76.7% accurate, 0.4× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b}{3 \cdot a} \leq -4 \cdot 10^{-6}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.3333333333333333 \cdot \frac{b - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)}}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (/ (- (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 3.0 a) c))) b) (* 3.0 a)) -4e-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) - ((3.0 * a) * c))) - b) / (3.0 * a)) <= -4e-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(Float64(3.0 * a) * c))) - b) / Float64(3.0 * a)) <= -4e-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[(N[(3.0 * a), $MachinePrecision] * c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(3.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], -4e-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)) < -3.99999999999999982e-6

   1. Initial program 74.9%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 74.9%

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

      2. metadata-eval 74.9%

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

      3. associate-/l* 74.9%

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

      4. associate-*r/ 74.9%

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

      5. *-commutative 74.9%

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

      6. associate-*l/ 74.9%

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

      7. associate-*r/ 74.9%

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

      8. metadata-eval 74.9%

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

      9. metadata-eval 74.9%

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

      10. times-frac 74.9%

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

      11. neg-mul-1 74.9%

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

      12. distribute-rgt-neg-in 74.9%

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

      13. times-frac 74.9%

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

      14. metadata-eval 74.9%

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

      15. neg-mul-1 74.9%

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

   3. Simplified 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 -3.99999999999999982e-6 < (/.f64 (+.f64 (neg.f64 b) (sqrt.f64 (-.f64 (*.f64 b b) (*.f64 (*.f64 3 a) c)))) (*.f64 3 a))

   1. Initial program 33.4%

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

      1. neg-sub0 33.4%

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

      2. associate-+l- 33.4%

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

      3. sub0-neg 33.4%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 33.4%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 33.4%

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

      6. *-commutative 33.4%

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

      7. metadata-eval 33.4%

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

      8. metadata-eval 33.4%

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

      9. times-frac 33.4%

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

      10. *-commutative 33.4%

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

      11. times-frac 33.4%

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

   3. Simplified 33.4%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 81.7%

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

4. Final simplification 78.5%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b}{3 \cdot a} \leq -4 \cdot 10^{-6}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.3333333333333333 \cdot \frac{b - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)}}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 6: 76.7% accurate, 0.4× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b}{3 \cdot a} \leq -4 \cdot 10^{-6}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (/ (- (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 3.0 a) c))) b) (* 3.0 a)) -4e-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) - ((3.0 * a) * c))) - b) / (3.0 * a)) <= -4e-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(Float64(3.0 * a) * c))) - b) / Float64(3.0 * a)) <= -4e-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[(N[(3.0 * a), $MachinePrecision] * c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(3.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], -4e-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)) < -3.99999999999999982e-6

   1. Initial program 74.9%

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

      1. neg-sub0 74.9%

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

      2. associate-+l- 74.9%

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

      3. sub0-neg 74.9%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 74.9%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 74.9%

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

      6. *-commutative 74.9%

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

      7. metadata-eval 74.9%

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

      8. metadata-eval 74.9%

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

      9. times-frac 74.9%

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

      10. *-commutative 74.9%

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

      11. times-frac 74.9%

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

   3. Simplified 75.0%

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

   if -3.99999999999999982e-6 < (/.f64 (+.f64 (neg.f64 b) (sqrt.f64 (-.f64 (*.f64 b b) (*.f64 (*.f64 3 a) c)))) (*.f64 3 a))

   1. Initial program 33.4%

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

      1. neg-sub0 33.4%

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

      2. associate-+l- 33.4%

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

      3. sub0-neg 33.4%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 33.4%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 33.4%

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

      6. *-commutative 33.4%

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

      7. metadata-eval 33.4%

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

      8. metadata-eval 33.4%

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

      9. times-frac 33.4%

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

      10. *-commutative 33.4%

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

      11. times-frac 33.4%

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

   3. Simplified 33.4%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 81.7%

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

4. Final simplification 78.5%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b}{3 \cdot a} \leq -4 \cdot 10^{-6}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.3333333333333333}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 7: 76.6% accurate, 0.5× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b\\ \mathbf{if}\;\frac{t_0}{3 \cdot a} \leq -4 \cdot 10^{-6}:\\ \;\;\;\;t_0 \cdot \frac{1}{3 \cdot a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0 (- (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 3.0 a) c))) b)))
   (if (<= (/ t_0 (* 3.0 a)) -4e-6)
     (* t_0 (/ 1.0 (* 3.0 a)))
     (* -0.5 (/ c b)))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double t_0 = sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c))) - b;
	double tmp;
	if ((t_0 / (3.0 * a)) <= -4e-6) {
		tmp = t_0 * (1.0 / (3.0 * a));
	} else {
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b, c)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8), intent (in) :: c
    real(8) :: t_0
    real(8) :: tmp
    t_0 = sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0d0 * a) * c))) - b
    if ((t_0 / (3.0d0 * a)) <= (-4d-6)) then
        tmp = t_0 * (1.0d0 / (3.0d0 * a))
    else
        tmp = (-0.5d0) * (c / b)
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double t_0 = Math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c))) - b;
	double tmp;
	if ((t_0 / (3.0 * a)) <= -4e-6) {
		tmp = t_0 * (1.0 / (3.0 * a));
	} else {
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	t_0 = math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c))) - b
	tmp = 0
	if (t_0 / (3.0 * a)) <= -4e-6:
		tmp = t_0 * (1.0 / (3.0 * a))
	else:
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b)
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	t_0 = Float64(sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(Float64(3.0 * a) * c))) - b)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(t_0 / Float64(3.0 * a)) <= -4e-6)
		tmp = Float64(t_0 * Float64(1.0 / Float64(3.0 * a)));
	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) - ((3.0 * a) * c))) - b;
	tmp = 0.0;
	if ((t_0 / (3.0 * a)) <= -4e-6)
		tmp = t_0 * (1.0 / (3.0 * a));
	else
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := Block[{t$95$0 = N[(N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(N[(3.0 * a), $MachinePrecision] * c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision]}, If[LessEqual[N[(t$95$0 / N[(3.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], -4e-6], N[(t$95$0 * N[(1.0 / N[(3.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $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)) < -3.99999999999999982e-6

   1. Initial program 74.9%

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

      1. div-inv 74.9%

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

      2. neg-mul-1 74.9%

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

      3. fma-def 74.9%

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

      4. *-commutative 74.9%

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

      5. *-commutative 74.9%

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

      6. *-commutative 74.9%

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

   3. Applied egg-rr 74.9%

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

      1. fma-udef 74.9%

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

   5. Applied egg-rr 74.9%

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

   if -3.99999999999999982e-6 < (/.f64 (+.f64 (neg.f64 b) (sqrt.f64 (-.f64 (*.f64 b b) (*.f64 (*.f64 3 a) c)))) (*.f64 3 a))

   1. Initial program 33.4%

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

      1. neg-sub0 33.4%

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

      2. associate-+l- 33.4%

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

      3. sub0-neg 33.4%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 33.4%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 33.4%

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

      6. *-commutative 33.4%

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

      7. metadata-eval 33.4%

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

      8. metadata-eval 33.4%

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

      9. times-frac 33.4%

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

      10. *-commutative 33.4%

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

      11. times-frac 33.4%

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

   3. Simplified 33.4%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 81.7%

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

4. Final simplification 78.5%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b}{3 \cdot a} \leq -4 \cdot 10^{-6}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b\right) \cdot \frac{1}{3 \cdot a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 8: 76.6% accurate, 0.5× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := \frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b}{3 \cdot a}\\ \mathbf{if}\;t_0 \leq -4 \cdot 10^{-6}:\\ \;\;\;\;t_0\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0 (/ (- (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 3.0 a) c))) b) (* 3.0 a))))
   (if (<= t_0 -4e-6) t_0 (* -0.5 (/ c b)))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double t_0 = (sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c))) - b) / (3.0 * a);
	double tmp;
	if (t_0 <= -4e-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) - ((3.0d0 * a) * c))) - b) / (3.0d0 * a)
    if (t_0 <= (-4d-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) - ((3.0 * a) * c))) - b) / (3.0 * a);
	double tmp;
	if (t_0 <= -4e-6) {
		tmp = t_0;
	} else {
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	t_0 = (math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c))) - b) / (3.0 * a)
	tmp = 0
	if t_0 <= -4e-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(Float64(3.0 * a) * c))) - b) / Float64(3.0 * a))
	tmp = 0.0
	if (t_0 <= -4e-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) - ((3.0 * a) * c))) - b) / (3.0 * a);
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (t_0 <= -4e-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[(N[(3.0 * a), $MachinePrecision] * c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(3.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]}, If[LessEqual[t$95$0, -4e-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)) < -3.99999999999999982e-6

   1. Initial program 74.9%

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

   if -3.99999999999999982e-6 < (/.f64 (+.f64 (neg.f64 b) (sqrt.f64 (-.f64 (*.f64 b b) (*.f64 (*.f64 3 a) c)))) (*.f64 3 a))

   1. Initial program 33.4%

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

      1. neg-sub0 33.4%

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

      2. associate-+l- 33.4%

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

      3. sub0-neg 33.4%

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

      4. neg-mul-1 33.4%

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

      5. associate-*r/ 33.4%

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

      6. *-commutative 33.4%

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

      7. metadata-eval 33.4%

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

      8. metadata-eval 33.4%

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

      9. times-frac 33.4%

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

      10. *-commutative 33.4%

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

      11. times-frac 33.4%

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

   3. Simplified 33.4%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 81.7%

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

4. Final simplification 78.5%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b}{3 \cdot a} \leq -4 \cdot 10^{-6}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b}{3 \cdot a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 9: 64.3% accurate, 23.2× speedup

Math

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

FPCore

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

C

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

Fortran

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

Java

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

Python

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

Julia

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

MATLAB

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

Wolfram

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

Derivation

1. Initial program 52.7%

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

   1. neg-sub0 52.7%

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

   2. associate-+l- 52.7%

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

   3. sub0-neg 52.7%

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

   4. neg-mul-1 52.7%

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

   5. associate-*r/ 52.7%

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

   6. *-commutative 52.7%

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

   7. metadata-eval 52.7%

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

   8. metadata-eval 52.7%

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

   9. times-frac 52.7%

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

   10. *-commutative 52.7%

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

   11. times-frac 52.7%

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

3. Simplified 52.7%

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

4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 66.1%

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

5. Final simplification 66.1%

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

Alternative 10: 3.2% accurate, 38.7× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{0}{a} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c) :precision binary64 (/ 0.0 a))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return 0.0 / 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 = 0.0d0 / a
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return 0.0 / a;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	return 0.0 / a

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	return Float64(0.0 / a)
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0 / a;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := N[(0.0 / a), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 52.7%

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

   1. div-inv 52.7%

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

   2. neg-mul-1 52.7%

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

   3. fma-def 52.7%

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

   4. *-commutative 52.7%

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

   5. *-commutative 52.7%

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

   6. *-commutative 52.7%

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

3. Applied egg-rr 52.7%

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

4. Taylor expanded in c around 0 3.2%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{0.3333333333333333 \cdot \frac{b + -1 \cdot b}{a}} \]
5. Step-by-step derivation

   1. associate-*r/ 3.2%

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

   2. distribute-rgt1-in 3.2%

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

   3. metadata-eval 3.2%

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

   4. mul0-lft 3.2%

      \[\leadsto \frac{0.3333333333333333 \cdot \color{blue}{0}}{a} \]

   5. metadata-eval 3.2%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{0}}{a} \]

6. Simplified 3.2%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{0}{a}} \]

7. Final simplification 3.2%

   \[\leadsto \frac{0}{a} \]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2023249 
(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)))