The quadratic formula (r2)

Percentage Accurate: 52.6% → 83.9%

Time: 11.1s

Alternatives: 7

Speedup: 19.1×

Specification

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (/ (- (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* 4.0 (* a c))))) (* 2.0 a)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (-b - sqrt(((b * b) - (4.0 * (a * c))))) / (2.0 * 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) - (4.0d0 * (a * c))))) / (2.0d0 * a)
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (-b - Math.sqrt(((b * b) - (4.0 * (a * c))))) / (2.0 * a);
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	return (-b - math.sqrt(((b * b) - (4.0 * (a * c))))) / (2.0 * a)

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	return Float64(Float64(Float64(-b) - sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(4.0 * Float64(a * c))))) / Float64(2.0 * a))
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = (-b - sqrt(((b * b) - (4.0 * (a * c))))) / (2.0 * a);
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := N[(N[((-b) - N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(4.0 * N[(a * c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(2.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]

Initial Program: 52.6% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (/ (- (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* 4.0 (* a c))))) (* 2.0 a)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (-b - sqrt(((b * b) - (4.0 * (a * c))))) / (2.0 * 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) - (4.0d0 * (a * c))))) / (2.0d0 * a)
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (-b - Math.sqrt(((b * b) - (4.0 * (a * c))))) / (2.0 * a);
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	return (-b - math.sqrt(((b * b) - (4.0 * (a * c))))) / (2.0 * a)

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	return Float64(Float64(Float64(-b) - sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(4.0 * Float64(a * c))))) / Float64(2.0 * a))
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = (-b - sqrt(((b * b) - (4.0 * (a * c))))) / (2.0 * a);
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := N[(N[((-b) - N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(4.0 * N[(a * c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(2.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]

Alternative 1: 83.9% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -3.6 \cdot 10^{-170}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 5.2 \cdot 10^{+103}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(c \cdot 4\right) \cdot a}}{a \cdot 2}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-b}{a}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -3.6e-170)
   (/ (- c) b)
   (if (<= b 5.2e+103)
     (/ (- (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* c 4.0) a)))) (* a 2.0))
     (/ (- b) a))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -3.6e-170) {
		tmp = -c / b;
	} else if (b <= 5.2e+103) {
		tmp = (-b - sqrt(((b * b) - ((c * 4.0) * a)))) / (a * 2.0);
	} else {
		tmp = -b / a;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b, c)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8), intent (in) :: c
    real(8) :: tmp
    if (b <= (-3.6d-170)) then
        tmp = -c / b
    else if (b <= 5.2d+103) then
        tmp = (-b - sqrt(((b * b) - ((c * 4.0d0) * a)))) / (a * 2.0d0)
    else
        tmp = -b / a
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -3.6e-170) {
		tmp = -c / b;
	} else if (b <= 5.2e+103) {
		tmp = (-b - Math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((c * 4.0) * a)))) / (a * 2.0);
	} else {
		tmp = -b / a;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -3.6e-170:
		tmp = -c / b
	elif b <= 5.2e+103:
		tmp = (-b - math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((c * 4.0) * a)))) / (a * 2.0)
	else:
		tmp = -b / a
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -3.6e-170)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-c) / b);
	elseif (b <= 5.2e+103)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(Float64(-b) - sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(Float64(c * 4.0) * a)))) / Float64(a * 2.0));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-b) / a);
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= -3.6e-170)
		tmp = -c / b;
	elseif (b <= 5.2e+103)
		tmp = (-b - sqrt(((b * b) - ((c * 4.0) * a)))) / (a * 2.0);
	else
		tmp = -b / a;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -3.6e-170], N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 5.2e+103], N[(N[((-b) - N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(N[(c * 4.0), $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * 2.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[((-b) / a), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -3.6000000000000003e-170

   1. Initial program 22.5%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 22.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      2. sqr-neg 22.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)} - 4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      3. *-commutative 22.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right) - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot c\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      4. sqr-neg 22.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{b \cdot b} - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      5. *-commutative 22.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      6. associate-*r* 22.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      7. *-commutative 22.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}{\color{blue}{a \cdot 2}} \]

   3. Simplified 22.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}{a \cdot 2}} \]

   4. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 81.9%

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

      1. mul-1-neg 81.9%

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

      2. distribute-neg-frac 81.9%

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

   6. Simplified 81.9%

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

   if -3.6000000000000003e-170 < b < 5.2000000000000003e103

   1. Initial program 86.2%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 86.2%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      2. sqr-neg 86.2%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)} - 4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      3. *-commutative 86.2%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right) - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot c\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      4. sqr-neg 86.2%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{b \cdot b} - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      5. *-commutative 86.2%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      6. associate-*r* 86.3%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      7. *-commutative 86.3%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}{\color{blue}{a \cdot 2}} \]

   3. Simplified 86.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}{a \cdot 2}} \]

   if 5.2000000000000003e103 < b

   1. Initial program 51.4%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 51.4%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      2. sqr-neg 51.4%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)} - 4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      3. *-commutative 51.4%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right) - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot c\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      4. sqr-neg 51.4%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{b \cdot b} - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      5. *-commutative 51.4%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      6. associate-*r* 51.4%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      7. *-commutative 51.4%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}{\color{blue}{a \cdot 2}} \]

   3. Simplified 51.4%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}{a \cdot 2}} \]

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 96.9%

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

      1. associate-*r/ 96.9%

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

      2. mul-1-neg 96.9%

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

   6. Simplified 96.9%

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

4. Final simplification 87.1%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -3.6 \cdot 10^{-170}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 5.2 \cdot 10^{+103}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(c \cdot 4\right) \cdot a}}{a \cdot 2}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-b}{a}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 2: 83.9% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -3.6 \cdot 10^{-170}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 6 \cdot 10^{+103}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)}}{a \cdot 2}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-b}{a}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -3.6e-170)
   (/ (- c) b)
   (if (<= b 6e+103)
     (/ (- (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* 4.0 (* c a))))) (* a 2.0))
     (/ (- b) a))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -3.6e-170) {
		tmp = -c / b;
	} else if (b <= 6e+103) {
		tmp = (-b - sqrt(((b * b) - (4.0 * (c * a))))) / (a * 2.0);
	} else {
		tmp = -b / a;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b, c)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8), intent (in) :: c
    real(8) :: tmp
    if (b <= (-3.6d-170)) then
        tmp = -c / b
    else if (b <= 6d+103) then
        tmp = (-b - sqrt(((b * b) - (4.0d0 * (c * a))))) / (a * 2.0d0)
    else
        tmp = -b / a
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -3.6e-170) {
		tmp = -c / b;
	} else if (b <= 6e+103) {
		tmp = (-b - Math.sqrt(((b * b) - (4.0 * (c * a))))) / (a * 2.0);
	} else {
		tmp = -b / a;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -3.6e-170:
		tmp = -c / b
	elif b <= 6e+103:
		tmp = (-b - math.sqrt(((b * b) - (4.0 * (c * a))))) / (a * 2.0)
	else:
		tmp = -b / a
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -3.6e-170)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-c) / b);
	elseif (b <= 6e+103)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(Float64(-b) - sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(4.0 * Float64(c * a))))) / Float64(a * 2.0));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-b) / a);
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= -3.6e-170)
		tmp = -c / b;
	elseif (b <= 6e+103)
		tmp = (-b - sqrt(((b * b) - (4.0 * (c * a))))) / (a * 2.0);
	else
		tmp = -b / a;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -3.6e-170], N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 6e+103], N[(N[((-b) - N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(4.0 * N[(c * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * 2.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[((-b) / a), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -3.6000000000000003e-170

   1. Initial program 22.5%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 22.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      2. sqr-neg 22.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)} - 4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      3. *-commutative 22.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right) - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot c\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      4. sqr-neg 22.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{b \cdot b} - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      5. *-commutative 22.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      6. associate-*r* 22.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      7. *-commutative 22.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}{\color{blue}{a \cdot 2}} \]

   3. Simplified 22.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}{a \cdot 2}} \]

   4. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 81.9%

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

      1. mul-1-neg 81.9%

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

      2. distribute-neg-frac 81.9%

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

   6. Simplified 81.9%

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

   if -3.6000000000000003e-170 < b < 6e103

   1. Initial program 86.2%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]

   if 6e103 < b

   1. Initial program 51.4%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 51.4%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      2. sqr-neg 51.4%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)} - 4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      3. *-commutative 51.4%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right) - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot c\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      4. sqr-neg 51.4%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{b \cdot b} - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      5. *-commutative 51.4%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      6. associate-*r* 51.4%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      7. *-commutative 51.4%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}{\color{blue}{a \cdot 2}} \]

   3. Simplified 51.4%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}{a \cdot 2}} \]

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 96.9%

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

      1. associate-*r/ 96.9%

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

      2. mul-1-neg 96.9%

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

   6. Simplified 96.9%

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

4. Final simplification 87.0%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -3.6 \cdot 10^{-170}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 6 \cdot 10^{+103}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)}}{a \cdot 2}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-b}{a}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 3: 78.3% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -3.6 \cdot 10^{-170}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 1.55 \cdot 10^{-142}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b + \sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)}}{a \cdot -2}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -3.6e-170)
   (/ (- c) b)
   (if (<= b 1.55e-142)
     (/ (+ b (sqrt (* a (* c -4.0)))) (* a -2.0))
     (- (/ c b) (/ b a)))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -3.6e-170) {
		tmp = -c / b;
	} else if (b <= 1.55e-142) {
		tmp = (b + sqrt((a * (c * -4.0)))) / (a * -2.0);
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b, c)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8), intent (in) :: c
    real(8) :: tmp
    if (b <= (-3.6d-170)) then
        tmp = -c / b
    else if (b <= 1.55d-142) then
        tmp = (b + sqrt((a * (c * (-4.0d0))))) / (a * (-2.0d0))
    else
        tmp = (c / b) - (b / a)
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -3.6e-170) {
		tmp = -c / b;
	} else if (b <= 1.55e-142) {
		tmp = (b + Math.sqrt((a * (c * -4.0)))) / (a * -2.0);
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -3.6e-170:
		tmp = -c / b
	elif b <= 1.55e-142:
		tmp = (b + math.sqrt((a * (c * -4.0)))) / (a * -2.0)
	else:
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a)
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -3.6e-170)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-c) / b);
	elseif (b <= 1.55e-142)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(b + sqrt(Float64(a * Float64(c * -4.0)))) / Float64(a * -2.0));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(c / b) - Float64(b / a));
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= -3.6e-170)
		tmp = -c / b;
	elseif (b <= 1.55e-142)
		tmp = (b + sqrt((a * (c * -4.0)))) / (a * -2.0);
	else
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a);
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -3.6e-170], N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 1.55e-142], N[(N[(b + N[Sqrt[N[(a * N[(c * -4.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * -2.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(b / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -3.6000000000000003e-170

   1. Initial program 22.5%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 22.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      2. sqr-neg 22.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)} - 4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      3. *-commutative 22.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right) - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot c\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      4. sqr-neg 22.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{b \cdot b} - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      5. *-commutative 22.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      6. associate-*r* 22.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      7. *-commutative 22.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}{\color{blue}{a \cdot 2}} \]

   3. Simplified 22.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}{a \cdot 2}} \]

   4. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 81.9%

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

      1. mul-1-neg 81.9%

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

      2. distribute-neg-frac 81.9%

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

   6. Simplified 81.9%

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

   if -3.6000000000000003e-170 < b < 1.55e-142

   1. Initial program 75.5%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 75.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      2. sqr-neg 75.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)} - 4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      3. *-commutative 75.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right) - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot c\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      4. sqr-neg 75.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{b \cdot b} - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      5. *-commutative 75.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      6. associate-*r* 75.7%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      7. *-commutative 75.7%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}{\color{blue}{a \cdot 2}} \]

   3. Simplified 75.7%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}{a \cdot 2}} \]

   4. Taylor expanded in b around 0 74.8%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{-4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}}{a \cdot 2} \]
   5. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 74.8%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot c\right) \cdot -4}}}{a \cdot 2} \]

      2. *-commutative 74.8%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right)} \cdot -4}}{a \cdot 2} \]

      3. associate-*l* 75.0%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{c \cdot \left(a \cdot -4\right)}}}{a \cdot 2} \]

   6. Simplified 75.0%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{c \cdot \left(a \cdot -4\right)}}}{a \cdot 2} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

      1. frac-2neg 75.0%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-\left(\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{c \cdot \left(a \cdot -4\right)}\right)}{-a \cdot 2}} \]

      2. div-inv 74.5%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(-\left(\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{c \cdot \left(a \cdot -4\right)}\right)\right) \cdot \frac{1}{-a \cdot 2}} \]

      3. neg-sub0 74.5%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(0 - \left(\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{c \cdot \left(a \cdot -4\right)}\right)\right)} \cdot \frac{1}{-a \cdot 2} \]

      4. add-sqr-sqrt 42.2%

         \[\leadsto \left(0 - \left(\color{blue}{\sqrt{-b} \cdot \sqrt{-b}} - \sqrt{c \cdot \left(a \cdot -4\right)}\right)\right) \cdot \frac{1}{-a \cdot 2} \]

      5. sqrt-unprod 74.0%

         \[\leadsto \left(0 - \left(\color{blue}{\sqrt{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)}} - \sqrt{c \cdot \left(a \cdot -4\right)}\right)\right) \cdot \frac{1}{-a \cdot 2} \]

      6. sqr-neg 74.0%

         \[\leadsto \left(0 - \left(\sqrt{\color{blue}{b \cdot b}} - \sqrt{c \cdot \left(a \cdot -4\right)}\right)\right) \cdot \frac{1}{-a \cdot 2} \]

      7. sqrt-unprod 31.6%

         \[\leadsto \left(0 - \left(\color{blue}{\sqrt{b} \cdot \sqrt{b}} - \sqrt{c \cdot \left(a \cdot -4\right)}\right)\right) \cdot \frac{1}{-a \cdot 2} \]

      8. add-sqr-sqrt 74.4%

         \[\leadsto \left(0 - \left(\color{blue}{b} - \sqrt{c \cdot \left(a \cdot -4\right)}\right)\right) \cdot \frac{1}{-a \cdot 2} \]

      9. associate-+l- 74.4%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\left(0 - b\right) + \sqrt{c \cdot \left(a \cdot -4\right)}\right)} \cdot \frac{1}{-a \cdot 2} \]

      10. neg-sub0 74.4%

          \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{\left(-b\right)} + \sqrt{c \cdot \left(a \cdot -4\right)}\right) \cdot \frac{1}{-a \cdot 2} \]

      11. add-sqr-sqrt 42.7%

          \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{\sqrt{-b} \cdot \sqrt{-b}} + \sqrt{c \cdot \left(a \cdot -4\right)}\right) \cdot \frac{1}{-a \cdot 2} \]

      12. sqrt-unprod 74.4%

          \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{\sqrt{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)}} + \sqrt{c \cdot \left(a \cdot -4\right)}\right) \cdot \frac{1}{-a \cdot 2} \]

      13. sqr-neg 74.4%

          \[\leadsto \left(\sqrt{\color{blue}{b \cdot b}} + \sqrt{c \cdot \left(a \cdot -4\right)}\right) \cdot \frac{1}{-a \cdot 2} \]

      14. sqrt-unprod 32.3%

          \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{\sqrt{b} \cdot \sqrt{b}} + \sqrt{c \cdot \left(a \cdot -4\right)}\right) \cdot \frac{1}{-a \cdot 2} \]

      15. add-sqr-sqrt 74.5%

          \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{b} + \sqrt{c \cdot \left(a \cdot -4\right)}\right) \cdot \frac{1}{-a \cdot 2} \]

      16. associate-*r* 74.4%

          \[\leadsto \left(b + \sqrt{\color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right) \cdot -4}}\right) \cdot \frac{1}{-a \cdot 2} \]

      17. *-commutative 74.4%

          \[\leadsto \left(b + \sqrt{\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot c\right)} \cdot -4}\right) \cdot \frac{1}{-a \cdot 2} \]

      18. associate-*r* 74.5%

          \[\leadsto \left(b + \sqrt{\color{blue}{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)}}\right) \cdot \frac{1}{-a \cdot 2} \]

      19. distribute-rgt-neg-in 74.5%

          \[\leadsto \left(b + \sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)}\right) \cdot \frac{1}{\color{blue}{a \cdot \left(-2\right)}} \]

      20. metadata-eval 74.5%

          \[\leadsto \left(b + \sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)}\right) \cdot \frac{1}{a \cdot \color{blue}{-2}} \]

   8. Applied egg-rr 74.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(b + \sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)}\right) \cdot \frac{1}{a \cdot -2}} \]
   9. Step-by-step derivation

      1. associate-*r/ 75.0%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(b + \sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)}\right) \cdot 1}{a \cdot -2}} \]

      2. *-rgt-identity 75.0%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b + \sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)}}}{a \cdot -2} \]

   10. Simplified 75.0%

       \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b + \sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)}}{a \cdot -2}} \]

   if 1.55e-142 < b

   1. Initial program 72.3%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 72.3%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      2. sqr-neg 72.3%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)} - 4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      3. *-commutative 72.3%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right) - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot c\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      4. sqr-neg 72.3%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{b \cdot b} - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      5. *-commutative 72.3%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      6. associate-*r* 72.3%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      7. *-commutative 72.3%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}{\color{blue}{a \cdot 2}} \]

   3. Simplified 72.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}{a \cdot 2}} \]

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 85.6%

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

      1. +-commutative 85.6%

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

      2. mul-1-neg 85.6%

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

      3. unsub-neg 85.6%

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

   6. Simplified 85.6%

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

4. Final simplification 82.0%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -3.6 \cdot 10^{-170}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 1.55 \cdot 10^{-142}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b + \sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)}}{a \cdot -2}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 4: 67.4% accurate, 12.8× speedup

Math

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

FPCore

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

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -5e-310) {
		tmp = -c / b;
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b, c)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8), intent (in) :: c
    real(8) :: tmp
    if (b <= (-5d-310)) then
        tmp = -c / b
    else
        tmp = (c / b) - (b / a)
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -5e-310) {
		tmp = -c / b;
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

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

Julia

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

MATLAB

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

Wolfram

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

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < -4.999999999999985e-310

   1. Initial program 34.9%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 34.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      2. sqr-neg 34.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)} - 4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      3. *-commutative 34.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right) - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot c\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      4. sqr-neg 34.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{b \cdot b} - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      5. *-commutative 34.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      6. associate-*r* 35.0%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      7. *-commutative 35.0%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}{\color{blue}{a \cdot 2}} \]

   3. Simplified 35.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}{a \cdot 2}} \]

   4. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 65.0%

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

      1. mul-1-neg 65.0%

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

      2. distribute-neg-frac 65.0%

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

   6. Simplified 65.0%

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

   if -4.999999999999985e-310 < b

   1. Initial program 73.0%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 73.0%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      2. sqr-neg 73.0%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)} - 4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      3. *-commutative 73.0%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right) - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot c\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      4. sqr-neg 73.0%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{b \cdot b} - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      5. *-commutative 73.0%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      6. associate-*r* 73.0%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      7. *-commutative 73.0%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}{\color{blue}{a \cdot 2}} \]

   3. Simplified 73.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}{a \cdot 2}} \]

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 72.8%

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

      1. +-commutative 72.8%

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

      2. mul-1-neg 72.8%

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

      3. unsub-neg 72.8%

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

   6. Simplified 72.8%

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

4. Final simplification 69.0%

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

Alternative 5: 43.2% accurate, 19.1× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -8 \cdot 10^{-89}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-b}{a}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c) :precision binary64 (if (<= b -8e-89) (/ c b) (/ (- b) a)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -8e-89) {
		tmp = c / b;
	} else {
		tmp = -b / a;
	}
	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 <= (-8d-89)) then
        tmp = c / b
    else
        tmp = -b / a
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -8e-89) {
		tmp = c / b;
	} else {
		tmp = -b / a;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -8e-89:
		tmp = c / b
	else:
		tmp = -b / a
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -8e-89)
		tmp = Float64(c / b);
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-b) / a);
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= -8e-89)
		tmp = c / b;
	else
		tmp = -b / a;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -8e-89], N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision], N[((-b) / a), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < -8.00000000000000031e-89

   1. Initial program 19.0%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 19.0%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      2. sqr-neg 19.0%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)} - 4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      3. *-commutative 19.0%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right) - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot c\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      4. sqr-neg 19.0%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{b \cdot b} - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      5. *-commutative 19.0%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      6. associate-*r* 19.0%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      7. *-commutative 19.0%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}{\color{blue}{a \cdot 2}} \]

   3. Simplified 19.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}{a \cdot 2}} \]

   4. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 67.0%

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

      1. frac-2neg 67.0%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{--2 \cdot \frac{a \cdot c}{b}}{-a \cdot 2}} \]

      2. distribute-rgt-neg-in 67.0%

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

      3. metadata-eval 67.0%

         \[\leadsto \frac{--2 \cdot \frac{a \cdot c}{b}}{a \cdot \color{blue}{-2}} \]

      4. distribute-frac-neg 67.0%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-\frac{-2 \cdot \frac{a \cdot c}{b}}{a \cdot -2}} \]

      5. add-sqr-sqrt 37.4%

         \[\leadsto -\frac{-2 \cdot \frac{a \cdot c}{b}}{\color{blue}{\sqrt{a \cdot -2} \cdot \sqrt{a \cdot -2}}} \]

      6. sqrt-unprod 30.9%

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

      7. swap-sqr 30.9%

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

      8. metadata-eval 30.9%

         \[\leadsto -\frac{-2 \cdot \frac{a \cdot c}{b}}{\sqrt{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \color{blue}{4}}} \]

      9. metadata-eval 30.9%

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

      10. swap-sqr 30.9%

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

      11. sqrt-unprod 13.2%

          \[\leadsto -\frac{-2 \cdot \frac{a \cdot c}{b}}{\color{blue}{\sqrt{a \cdot 2} \cdot \sqrt{a \cdot 2}}} \]

      12. add-sqr-sqrt 30.2%

          \[\leadsto -\frac{-2 \cdot \frac{a \cdot c}{b}}{\color{blue}{a \cdot 2}} \]

      13. *-commutative 30.2%

          \[\leadsto -\frac{-2 \cdot \frac{a \cdot c}{b}}{\color{blue}{2 \cdot a}} \]

      14. times-frac 30.2%

          \[\leadsto -\color{blue}{\frac{-2}{2} \cdot \frac{\frac{a \cdot c}{b}}{a}} \]

      15. metadata-eval 30.2%

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

      16. associate-/l* 30.4%

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

   6. Applied egg-rr 30.4%

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

      1. mul-1-neg 30.4%

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

      2. remove-double-neg 30.4%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{a}{\frac{b}{c}}}{a}} \]

      3. associate-/l/ 30.3%

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

   8. Simplified 30.3%

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

   9. Taylor expanded in a around 0 30.1%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{c}{b}} \]

   if -8.00000000000000031e-89 < b

   1. Initial program 70.3%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 70.3%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      2. sqr-neg 70.3%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)} - 4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      3. *-commutative 70.3%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right) - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot c\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      4. sqr-neg 70.3%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{b \cdot b} - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      5. *-commutative 70.3%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      6. associate-*r* 70.3%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      7. *-commutative 70.3%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}{\color{blue}{a \cdot 2}} \]

   3. Simplified 70.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}{a \cdot 2}} \]

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 54.4%

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

      1. associate-*r/ 54.4%

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

      2. mul-1-neg 54.4%

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

   6. Simplified 54.4%

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

4. Final simplification 46.8%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -8 \cdot 10^{-89}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-b}{a}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 6: 67.2% accurate, 19.1× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -4.5 \cdot 10^{-303}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-b}{a}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -4.5e-303) (/ (- c) b) (/ (- b) a)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -4.5e-303) {
		tmp = -c / b;
	} else {
		tmp = -b / a;
	}
	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 <= (-4.5d-303)) then
        tmp = -c / b
    else
        tmp = -b / a
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -4.5e-303) {
		tmp = -c / b;
	} else {
		tmp = -b / a;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -4.5e-303:
		tmp = -c / b
	else:
		tmp = -b / a
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -4.5e-303)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-c) / b);
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-b) / a);
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= -4.5e-303)
		tmp = -c / b;
	else
		tmp = -b / a;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -4.5e-303], N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision], N[((-b) / a), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < -4.5000000000000001e-303

   1. Initial program 33.9%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 33.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      2. sqr-neg 33.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)} - 4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      3. *-commutative 33.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right) - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot c\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      4. sqr-neg 33.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{b \cdot b} - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      5. *-commutative 33.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      6. associate-*r* 33.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      7. *-commutative 33.9%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}{\color{blue}{a \cdot 2}} \]

   3. Simplified 33.9%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}{a \cdot 2}} \]

   4. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 66.0%

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

      1. mul-1-neg 66.0%

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

      2. distribute-neg-frac 66.0%

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

   6. Simplified 66.0%

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

   if -4.5000000000000001e-303 < b

   1. Initial program 73.4%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   2. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 73.4%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      2. sqr-neg 73.4%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)} - 4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      3. *-commutative 73.4%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right) - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot c\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      4. sqr-neg 73.4%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{b \cdot b} - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      5. *-commutative 73.4%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      6. associate-*r* 73.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

      7. *-commutative 73.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}{\color{blue}{a \cdot 2}} \]

   3. Simplified 73.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}{a \cdot 2}} \]

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 71.6%

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

      1. associate-*r/ 71.6%

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

      2. mul-1-neg 71.6%

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

   6. Simplified 71.6%

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

4. Final simplification 68.9%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -4.5 \cdot 10^{-303}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-b}{a}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 7: 10.9% accurate, 38.7× speedup

Math

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

FPCore

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

C

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

Java

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

Python

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

Julia

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

MATLAB

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

Wolfram

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

Derivation

1. Initial program 54.3%

   \[\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]
2. Step-by-step derivation

   1. *-commutative 54.3%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

   2. sqr-neg 54.3%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)} - 4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]

   3. *-commutative 54.3%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right) - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot c\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

   4. sqr-neg 54.3%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{b \cdot b} - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]

   5. *-commutative 54.3%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot a\right)}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

   6. associate-*r* 54.3%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}}{2 \cdot a} \]

   7. *-commutative 54.3%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}{\color{blue}{a \cdot 2}} \]

3. Simplified 54.3%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}}{a \cdot 2}} \]

4. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 23.7%

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

   1. frac-2neg 23.7%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{--2 \cdot \frac{a \cdot c}{b}}{-a \cdot 2}} \]

   2. distribute-rgt-neg-in 23.7%

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

   3. metadata-eval 23.7%

      \[\leadsto \frac{--2 \cdot \frac{a \cdot c}{b}}{a \cdot \color{blue}{-2}} \]

   4. distribute-frac-neg 23.7%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-\frac{-2 \cdot \frac{a \cdot c}{b}}{a \cdot -2}} \]

   5. add-sqr-sqrt 13.0%

      \[\leadsto -\frac{-2 \cdot \frac{a \cdot c}{b}}{\color{blue}{\sqrt{a \cdot -2} \cdot \sqrt{a \cdot -2}}} \]

   6. sqrt-unprod 12.3%

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

   7. swap-sqr 12.3%

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

   8. metadata-eval 12.3%

      \[\leadsto -\frac{-2 \cdot \frac{a \cdot c}{b}}{\sqrt{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot \color{blue}{4}}} \]

   9. metadata-eval 12.3%

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

   10. swap-sqr 12.3%

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

   11. sqrt-unprod 5.0%

       \[\leadsto -\frac{-2 \cdot \frac{a \cdot c}{b}}{\color{blue}{\sqrt{a \cdot 2} \cdot \sqrt{a \cdot 2}}} \]

   12. add-sqr-sqrt 11.5%

       \[\leadsto -\frac{-2 \cdot \frac{a \cdot c}{b}}{\color{blue}{a \cdot 2}} \]

   13. *-commutative 11.5%

       \[\leadsto -\frac{-2 \cdot \frac{a \cdot c}{b}}{\color{blue}{2 \cdot a}} \]

   14. times-frac 11.5%

       \[\leadsto -\color{blue}{\frac{-2}{2} \cdot \frac{\frac{a \cdot c}{b}}{a}} \]

   15. metadata-eval 11.5%

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

   16. associate-/l* 11.5%

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

6. Applied egg-rr 11.5%

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

   1. mul-1-neg 11.5%

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

   2. remove-double-neg 11.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{a}{\frac{b}{c}}}{a}} \]

   3. associate-/l/ 11.4%

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

8. Simplified 11.4%

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

9. Taylor expanded in a around 0 11.5%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{c}{b}} \]

10. Final simplification 11.5%

    \[\leadsto \frac{c}{b} \]

Developer target: 71.5% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}\\ \mathbf{if}\;b < 0:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{a \cdot \frac{\left(-b\right) + t_0}{2 \cdot a}}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\left(-b\right) - t_0}{2 \cdot a}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0 (sqrt (- (* b b) (* 4.0 (* a c))))))
   (if (< b 0.0)
     (/ c (* a (/ (+ (- b) t_0) (* 2.0 a))))
     (/ (- (- b) t_0) (* 2.0 a)))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double t_0 = sqrt(((b * b) - (4.0 * (a * c))));
	double tmp;
	if (b < 0.0) {
		tmp = c / (a * ((-b + t_0) / (2.0 * a)));
	} else {
		tmp = (-b - t_0) / (2.0 * a);
	}
	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) - (4.0d0 * (a * c))))
    if (b < 0.0d0) then
        tmp = c / (a * ((-b + t_0) / (2.0d0 * a)))
    else
        tmp = (-b - t_0) / (2.0d0 * a)
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double t_0 = Math.sqrt(((b * b) - (4.0 * (a * c))));
	double tmp;
	if (b < 0.0) {
		tmp = c / (a * ((-b + t_0) / (2.0 * a)));
	} else {
		tmp = (-b - t_0) / (2.0 * a);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	t_0 = math.sqrt(((b * b) - (4.0 * (a * c))))
	tmp = 0
	if b < 0.0:
		tmp = c / (a * ((-b + t_0) / (2.0 * a)))
	else:
		tmp = (-b - t_0) / (2.0 * a)
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	t_0 = sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(4.0 * Float64(a * c))))
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b < 0.0)
		tmp = Float64(c / Float64(a * Float64(Float64(Float64(-b) + t_0) / Float64(2.0 * a))));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(Float64(-b) - t_0) / Float64(2.0 * a));
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	t_0 = sqrt(((b * b) - (4.0 * (a * c))));
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b < 0.0)
		tmp = c / (a * ((-b + t_0) / (2.0 * a)));
	else
		tmp = (-b - t_0) / (2.0 * a);
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := Block[{t$95$0 = N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(4.0 * N[(a * c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]}, If[Less[b, 0.0], N[(c / N[(a * N[(N[((-b) + t$95$0), $MachinePrecision] / N[(2.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[((-b) - t$95$0), $MachinePrecision] / N[(2.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2023311 
(FPCore (a b c)
  :name "The quadratic formula (r2)"
  :precision binary64

  :herbie-target
  (if (< b 0.0) (/ c (* a (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* 4.0 (* a c))))) (* 2.0 a)))) (/ (- (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* 4.0 (* a c))))) (* 2.0 a)))

  (/ (- (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* 4.0 (* a c))))) (* 2.0 a)))