quadm (p42, negative)

Percentage Accurate: 51.3% → 85.2%

Time: 11.6s

Alternatives: 11

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: 51.3% 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: 85.2% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1.15 \cdot 10^{-128}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 8.5 \cdot 10^{+123}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(c \cdot 4\right) \cdot a}}{a \cdot 2}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -1.15e-128)
   (/ (- c) b)
   (if (<= b 8.5e+123)
     (/ (- (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* c 4.0) a)))) (* a 2.0))
     (- (/ c b) (/ b a)))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -1.15e-128) {
		tmp = -c / b;
	} else if (b <= 8.5e+123) {
		tmp = (-b - sqrt(((b * b) - ((c * 4.0) * a)))) / (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 <= (-1.15d-128)) then
        tmp = -c / b
    else if (b <= 8.5d+123) then
        tmp = (-b - sqrt(((b * b) - ((c * 4.0d0) * a)))) / (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 <= -1.15e-128) {
		tmp = -c / b;
	} else if (b <= 8.5e+123) {
		tmp = (-b - Math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((c * 4.0) * a)))) / (a * 2.0);
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -1.15e-128:
		tmp = -c / b
	elif b <= 8.5e+123:
		tmp = (-b - math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((c * 4.0) * a)))) / (a * 2.0)
	else:
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a)
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -1.15e-128)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-c) / b);
	elseif (b <= 8.5e+123)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(Float64(-b) - sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(Float64(c * 4.0) * a)))) / 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 <= -1.15e-128)
		tmp = -c / b;
	elseif (b <= 8.5e+123)
		tmp = (-b - sqrt(((b * b) - ((c * 4.0) * a)))) / (a * 2.0);
	else
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a);
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -1.15e-128], N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 8.5e+123], 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[(N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(b / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -1.15e-128

   1. Initial program 16.6%

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

      1. *-commutative 16.6%

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

      2. sqr-neg 16.6%

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

      3. *-commutative 16.6%

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

      4. sqr-neg 16.6%

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

      5. *-commutative 16.6%

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

      6. associate-*r* 16.6%

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

      7. *-commutative 16.6%

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

   3. Simplified 16.6%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 84.2%

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

      1. mul-1-neg 84.2%

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

      2. distribute-neg-frac 84.2%

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

   6. Simplified 84.2%

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

   if -1.15e-128 < b < 8.5e123

   1. Initial program 83.6%

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

      1. *-commutative 83.6%

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

      2. sqr-neg 83.6%

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

      3. *-commutative 83.6%

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

      4. sqr-neg 83.6%

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

      5. *-commutative 83.6%

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

      6. associate-*r* 83.6%

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

      7. *-commutative 83.6%

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

   3. Simplified 83.6%

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

   if 8.5e123 < b

   1. Initial program 46.1%

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

      1. *-commutative 46.1%

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

      2. sqr-neg 46.1%

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

      3. *-commutative 46.1%

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

      4. sqr-neg 46.1%

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

      5. *-commutative 46.1%

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

      6. associate-*r* 46.1%

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

      7. *-commutative 46.1%

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

   3. Simplified 46.1%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 96.0%

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

      1. +-commutative 96.0%

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

      2. mul-1-neg 96.0%

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

      3. unsub-neg 96.0%

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

   6. Simplified 96.0%

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

4. Final simplification 86.0%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1.15 \cdot 10^{-128}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 8.5 \cdot 10^{+123}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(c \cdot 4\right) \cdot a}}{a \cdot 2}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 2: 85.2% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1.4 \cdot 10^{-128}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 8.4 \cdot 10^{+123}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)}}{a \cdot 2}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -1.4e-128)
   (/ (- c) b)
   (if (<= b 8.4e+123)
     (/ (- (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* 4.0 (* c a))))) (* a 2.0))
     (- (/ c b) (/ b a)))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -1.4e-128) {
		tmp = -c / b;
	} else if (b <= 8.4e+123) {
		tmp = (-b - sqrt(((b * b) - (4.0 * (c * a))))) / (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 <= (-1.4d-128)) then
        tmp = -c / b
    else if (b <= 8.4d+123) then
        tmp = (-b - sqrt(((b * b) - (4.0d0 * (c * a))))) / (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 <= -1.4e-128) {
		tmp = -c / b;
	} else if (b <= 8.4e+123) {
		tmp = (-b - Math.sqrt(((b * b) - (4.0 * (c * a))))) / (a * 2.0);
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -1.4e-128:
		tmp = -c / b
	elif b <= 8.4e+123:
		tmp = (-b - math.sqrt(((b * b) - (4.0 * (c * a))))) / (a * 2.0)
	else:
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a)
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -1.4e-128)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-c) / b);
	elseif (b <= 8.4e+123)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(Float64(-b) - sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(4.0 * Float64(c * a))))) / 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 <= -1.4e-128)
		tmp = -c / b;
	elseif (b <= 8.4e+123)
		tmp = (-b - sqrt(((b * b) - (4.0 * (c * a))))) / (a * 2.0);
	else
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a);
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -1.4e-128], N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 8.4e+123], 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[(N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(b / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -1.3999999999999999e-128

   1. Initial program 16.6%

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

      1. *-commutative 16.6%

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

      2. sqr-neg 16.6%

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

      3. *-commutative 16.6%

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

      4. sqr-neg 16.6%

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

      5. *-commutative 16.6%

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

      6. associate-*r* 16.6%

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

      7. *-commutative 16.6%

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

   3. Simplified 16.6%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 84.2%

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

      1. mul-1-neg 84.2%

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

      2. distribute-neg-frac 84.2%

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

   6. Simplified 84.2%

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

   if -1.3999999999999999e-128 < b < 8.39999999999999975e123

   1. Initial program 83.6%

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

   if 8.39999999999999975e123 < b

   1. Initial program 46.1%

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

      1. *-commutative 46.1%

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

      2. sqr-neg 46.1%

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

      3. *-commutative 46.1%

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

      4. sqr-neg 46.1%

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

      5. *-commutative 46.1%

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

      6. associate-*r* 46.1%

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

      7. *-commutative 46.1%

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

   3. Simplified 46.1%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 96.0%

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

      1. +-commutative 96.0%

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

      2. mul-1-neg 96.0%

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

      3. unsub-neg 96.0%

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

   6. Simplified 96.0%

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

4. Final simplification 86.0%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1.4 \cdot 10^{-128}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 8.4 \cdot 10^{+123}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)}}{a \cdot 2}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 3: 80.5% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1.15 \cdot 10^{-128}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 1.55 \cdot 10^{-40}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{\frac{a}{\frac{b + \sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)}}{-2}}}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -1.15e-128)
   (/ (- c) b)
   (if (<= b 1.55e-40)
     (/ 1.0 (/ a (/ (+ b (sqrt (* a (* c -4.0)))) -2.0)))
     (- (/ c b) (/ b a)))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -1.15e-128) {
		tmp = -c / b;
	} else if (b <= 1.55e-40) {
		tmp = 1.0 / (a / ((b + sqrt((a * (c * -4.0)))) / -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 <= (-1.15d-128)) then
        tmp = -c / b
    else if (b <= 1.55d-40) then
        tmp = 1.0d0 / (a / ((b + sqrt((a * (c * (-4.0d0))))) / (-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 <= -1.15e-128) {
		tmp = -c / b;
	} else if (b <= 1.55e-40) {
		tmp = 1.0 / (a / ((b + Math.sqrt((a * (c * -4.0)))) / -2.0));
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -1.15e-128:
		tmp = -c / b
	elif b <= 1.55e-40:
		tmp = 1.0 / (a / ((b + math.sqrt((a * (c * -4.0)))) / -2.0))
	else:
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a)
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -1.15e-128)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-c) / b);
	elseif (b <= 1.55e-40)
		tmp = Float64(1.0 / Float64(a / Float64(Float64(b + sqrt(Float64(a * Float64(c * -4.0)))) / -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 <= -1.15e-128)
		tmp = -c / b;
	elseif (b <= 1.55e-40)
		tmp = 1.0 / (a / ((b + sqrt((a * (c * -4.0)))) / -2.0));
	else
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a);
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -1.15e-128], N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 1.55e-40], N[(1.0 / N[(a / N[(N[(b + N[Sqrt[N[(a * N[(c * -4.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / -2.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(b / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -1.15e-128

   1. Initial program 16.6%

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

      1. *-commutative 16.6%

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

      2. sqr-neg 16.6%

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

      3. *-commutative 16.6%

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

      4. sqr-neg 16.6%

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

      5. *-commutative 16.6%

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

      6. associate-*r* 16.6%

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

      7. *-commutative 16.6%

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

   3. Simplified 16.6%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 84.2%

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

      1. mul-1-neg 84.2%

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

      2. distribute-neg-frac 84.2%

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

   6. Simplified 84.2%

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

   if -1.15e-128 < b < 1.55000000000000005e-40

   1. Initial program 78.4%

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

      1. *-commutative 78.4%

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

      2. sqr-neg 78.4%

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

      3. *-commutative 78.4%

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

      4. sqr-neg 78.4%

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

      5. *-commutative 78.4%

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

      6. associate-*r* 78.4%

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

      7. *-commutative 78.4%

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

   3. Simplified 78.4%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around 0 69.7%

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

      1. *-commutative 69.7%

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

      2. *-commutative 69.7%

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

      3. associate-*l* 69.8%

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

   6. Simplified 69.8%

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

      1. pow1/2 69.8%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \color{blue}{{\left(c \cdot \left(a \cdot -4\right)\right)}^{0.5}}}{a \cdot 2} \]

      2. *-commutative 69.8%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - {\color{blue}{\left(\left(a \cdot -4\right) \cdot c\right)}}^{0.5}}{a \cdot 2} \]

      3. *-commutative 69.8%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - {\left(\color{blue}{\left(-4 \cdot a\right)} \cdot c\right)}^{0.5}}{a \cdot 2} \]

      4. associate-*r* 69.7%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - {\color{blue}{\left(-4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)\right)}}^{0.5}}{a \cdot 2} \]

      5. metadata-eval 69.7%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - {\left(-4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)\right)}^{\color{blue}{\left(0.25 \cdot 2\right)}}}{a \cdot 2} \]

      6. pow-pow 69.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \color{blue}{{\left({\left(-4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)\right)}^{0.25}\right)}^{2}}}{a \cdot 2} \]

      7. clear-num 69.5%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{\frac{a \cdot 2}{\left(-b\right) - {\left({\left(-4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)\right)}^{0.25}\right)}^{2}}}} \]

      8. inv-pow 69.5%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(\frac{a \cdot 2}{\left(-b\right) - {\left({\left(-4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)\right)}^{0.25}\right)}^{2}}\right)}^{-1}} \]

   8. Applied egg-rr 69.8%

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

      1. unpow-1 69.8%

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

      2. associate-/l* 69.8%

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

   10. Simplified 69.8%

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

   if 1.55000000000000005e-40 < b

   1. Initial program 67.1%

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

      1. *-commutative 67.1%

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

      2. sqr-neg 67.1%

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

      3. *-commutative 67.1%

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

      4. sqr-neg 67.1%

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

      5. *-commutative 67.1%

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

      6. associate-*r* 67.1%

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

      7. *-commutative 67.1%

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

   3. Simplified 67.1%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 90.5%

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

      1. +-commutative 90.5%

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

      2. mul-1-neg 90.5%

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

      3. unsub-neg 90.5%

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

   6. Simplified 90.5%

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

4. Final simplification 82.8%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1.15 \cdot 10^{-128}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 1.55 \cdot 10^{-40}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{\frac{a}{\frac{b + \sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)}}{-2}}}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 4: 79.9% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -9.6 \cdot 10^{-119}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 1.8 \cdot 10^{-143}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(b - \sqrt{\left(c \cdot a\right) \cdot -4}\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -9.6e-119)
   (/ (- c) b)
   (if (<= b 1.8e-143)
     (* (/ 0.5 a) (- b (sqrt (* (* c a) -4.0))))
     (- (/ c b) (/ b a)))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -9.6e-119) {
		tmp = -c / b;
	} else if (b <= 1.8e-143) {
		tmp = (0.5 / a) * (b - sqrt(((c * a) * -4.0)));
	} 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 <= (-9.6d-119)) then
        tmp = -c / b
    else if (b <= 1.8d-143) then
        tmp = (0.5d0 / a) * (b - sqrt(((c * a) * (-4.0d0))))
    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 <= -9.6e-119) {
		tmp = -c / b;
	} else if (b <= 1.8e-143) {
		tmp = (0.5 / a) * (b - Math.sqrt(((c * a) * -4.0)));
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -9.6e-119:
		tmp = -c / b
	elif b <= 1.8e-143:
		tmp = (0.5 / a) * (b - math.sqrt(((c * a) * -4.0)))
	else:
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a)
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -9.6e-119)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-c) / b);
	elseif (b <= 1.8e-143)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(0.5 / a) * Float64(b - sqrt(Float64(Float64(c * a) * -4.0))));
	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 <= -9.6e-119)
		tmp = -c / b;
	elseif (b <= 1.8e-143)
		tmp = (0.5 / a) * (b - sqrt(((c * a) * -4.0)));
	else
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a);
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -9.6e-119], N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 1.8e-143], N[(N[(0.5 / a), $MachinePrecision] * N[(b - N[Sqrt[N[(N[(c * a), $MachinePrecision] * -4.0), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(b / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -9.60000000000000034e-119

   1. Initial program 16.0%

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

      1. *-commutative 16.0%

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

      2. sqr-neg 16.0%

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

      3. *-commutative 16.0%

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

      4. sqr-neg 16.0%

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

      5. *-commutative 16.0%

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

      6. associate-*r* 16.0%

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

      7. *-commutative 16.0%

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

   3. Simplified 16.0%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 84.8%

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

      1. mul-1-neg 84.8%

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

      2. distribute-neg-frac 84.8%

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

   6. Simplified 84.8%

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

   if -9.60000000000000034e-119 < b < 1.7999999999999999e-143

   1. Initial program 75.2%

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

      1. *-commutative 75.2%

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

      2. sqr-neg 75.2%

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

      3. *-commutative 75.2%

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

      4. sqr-neg 75.2%

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

      5. *-commutative 75.2%

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

      6. associate-*r* 75.3%

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

      7. *-commutative 75.3%

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

   3. Simplified 75.3%

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

      1. clear-num 75.2%

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

      2. associate-/r/ 75.2%

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

      3. *-commutative 75.2%

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

      4. associate-/r* 75.2%

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

      5. metadata-eval 75.2%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{0.5}}{a} \cdot \left(\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}\right) \]

      6. add-sqr-sqrt 45.2%

         \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\sqrt{-b} \cdot \sqrt{-b}} - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}\right) \]

      7. sqrt-unprod 74.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\sqrt{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)}} - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}\right) \]

      8. sqr-neg 74.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(\sqrt{\color{blue}{b \cdot b}} - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}\right) \]

      9. sqrt-prod 29.3%

         \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\sqrt{b} \cdot \sqrt{b}} - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}\right) \]

      10. add-sqr-sqrt 74.5%

          \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(\color{blue}{b} - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}\right) \]

      11. fma-neg 74.5%

          \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(b - \sqrt{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -\left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a\right)}}\right) \]

      12. *-commutative 74.5%

          \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(b - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -\color{blue}{a \cdot \left(4 \cdot c\right)}\right)}\right) \]

      13. distribute-rgt-neg-in 74.5%

          \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(b - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \color{blue}{a \cdot \left(-4 \cdot c\right)}\right)}\right) \]

      14. *-commutative 74.5%

          \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(b - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(-\color{blue}{c \cdot 4}\right)\right)}\right) \]

      15. distribute-rgt-neg-in 74.5%

          \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(b - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot \left(-4\right)\right)}\right)}\right) \]

      16. metadata-eval 74.5%

          \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(b - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot \color{blue}{-4}\right)\right)}\right) \]

   5. Applied egg-rr 74.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(b - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)\right)}\right)} \]

   6. Taylor expanded in b around 0 74.5%

      \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(b - \sqrt{\color{blue}{-4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}\right) \]

   if 1.7999999999999999e-143 < b

   1. Initial program 69.9%

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

      1. *-commutative 69.9%

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

      2. sqr-neg 69.9%

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

      3. *-commutative 69.9%

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

      4. sqr-neg 69.9%

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

      5. *-commutative 69.9%

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

      6. associate-*r* 69.9%

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

      7. *-commutative 69.9%

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

   3. Simplified 69.9%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 83.7%

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

      1. +-commutative 83.7%

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

      2. mul-1-neg 83.7%

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

      3. unsub-neg 83.7%

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

   6. Simplified 83.7%

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

4. Final simplification 82.4%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -9.6 \cdot 10^{-119}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 1.8 \cdot 10^{-143}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(b - \sqrt{\left(c \cdot a\right) \cdot -4}\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 5: 79.9% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -9.6 \cdot 10^{-119}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 9 \cdot 10^{-144}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(b - \sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)}\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -9.6e-119)
   (/ (- c) b)
   (if (<= b 9e-144)
     (* (/ 0.5 a) (- b (sqrt (* a (* c -4.0)))))
     (- (/ c b) (/ b a)))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -9.6e-119) {
		tmp = -c / b;
	} else if (b <= 9e-144) {
		tmp = (0.5 / a) * (b - sqrt((a * (c * -4.0))));
	} 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 <= (-9.6d-119)) then
        tmp = -c / b
    else if (b <= 9d-144) then
        tmp = (0.5d0 / a) * (b - sqrt((a * (c * (-4.0d0)))))
    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 <= -9.6e-119) {
		tmp = -c / b;
	} else if (b <= 9e-144) {
		tmp = (0.5 / a) * (b - Math.sqrt((a * (c * -4.0))));
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -9.6e-119:
		tmp = -c / b
	elif b <= 9e-144:
		tmp = (0.5 / a) * (b - math.sqrt((a * (c * -4.0))))
	else:
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a)
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -9.6e-119)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-c) / b);
	elseif (b <= 9e-144)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(0.5 / a) * Float64(b - sqrt(Float64(a * Float64(c * -4.0)))));
	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 <= -9.6e-119)
		tmp = -c / b;
	elseif (b <= 9e-144)
		tmp = (0.5 / a) * (b - sqrt((a * (c * -4.0))));
	else
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a);
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -9.6e-119], N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 9e-144], N[(N[(0.5 / a), $MachinePrecision] * N[(b - N[Sqrt[N[(a * N[(c * -4.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(b / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -9.60000000000000034e-119

   1. Initial program 16.0%

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

      1. *-commutative 16.0%

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

      2. sqr-neg 16.0%

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

      3. *-commutative 16.0%

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

      4. sqr-neg 16.0%

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

      5. *-commutative 16.0%

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

      6. associate-*r* 16.0%

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

      7. *-commutative 16.0%

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

   3. Simplified 16.0%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 84.8%

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

      1. mul-1-neg 84.8%

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

      2. distribute-neg-frac 84.8%

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

   6. Simplified 84.8%

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

   if -9.60000000000000034e-119 < b < 8.9999999999999996e-144

   1. Initial program 75.2%

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

      1. *-commutative 75.2%

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

      2. sqr-neg 75.2%

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

      3. *-commutative 75.2%

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

      4. sqr-neg 75.2%

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

      5. *-commutative 75.2%

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

      6. associate-*r* 75.3%

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

      7. *-commutative 75.3%

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

   3. Simplified 75.3%

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

      1. clear-num 75.2%

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

      2. associate-/r/ 75.2%

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

      3. *-commutative 75.2%

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

      4. associate-/r* 75.2%

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

      5. metadata-eval 75.2%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{0.5}}{a} \cdot \left(\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}\right) \]

      6. add-sqr-sqrt 45.2%

         \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\sqrt{-b} \cdot \sqrt{-b}} - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}\right) \]

      7. sqrt-unprod 74.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\sqrt{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)}} - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}\right) \]

      8. sqr-neg 74.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(\sqrt{\color{blue}{b \cdot b}} - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}\right) \]

      9. sqrt-prod 29.3%

         \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\sqrt{b} \cdot \sqrt{b}} - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}\right) \]

      10. add-sqr-sqrt 74.5%

          \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(\color{blue}{b} - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}\right) \]

      11. fma-neg 74.5%

          \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(b - \sqrt{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -\left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a\right)}}\right) \]

      12. *-commutative 74.5%

          \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(b - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -\color{blue}{a \cdot \left(4 \cdot c\right)}\right)}\right) \]

      13. distribute-rgt-neg-in 74.5%

          \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(b - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \color{blue}{a \cdot \left(-4 \cdot c\right)}\right)}\right) \]

      14. *-commutative 74.5%

          \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(b - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(-\color{blue}{c \cdot 4}\right)\right)}\right) \]

      15. distribute-rgt-neg-in 74.5%

          \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(b - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot \left(-4\right)\right)}\right)}\right) \]

      16. metadata-eval 74.5%

          \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(b - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot \color{blue}{-4}\right)\right)}\right) \]

   5. Applied egg-rr 74.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(b - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)\right)}\right)} \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

      1. add-cbrt-cube 40.3%

         \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(b - \sqrt{\color{blue}{\sqrt[3]{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)\right) \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)\right)\right) \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)\right)}}}\right) \]

      2. pow3 40.3%

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

   7. Applied egg-rr 40.3%

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

   8. Taylor expanded in b around 0 74.5%

      \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(b - \sqrt{\color{blue}{-4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}\right) \]
   9. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 74.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(b - \sqrt{\color{blue}{\left(a \cdot c\right) \cdot -4}}\right) \]

      2. associate-*r* 74.5%

         \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(b - \sqrt{\color{blue}{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)}}\right) \]

   10. Simplified 74.5%

       \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(b - \sqrt{\color{blue}{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)}}\right) \]

   if 8.9999999999999996e-144 < b

   1. Initial program 69.9%

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

      1. *-commutative 69.9%

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

      2. sqr-neg 69.9%

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

      3. *-commutative 69.9%

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

      4. sqr-neg 69.9%

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

      5. *-commutative 69.9%

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

      6. associate-*r* 69.9%

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

      7. *-commutative 69.9%

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

   3. Simplified 69.9%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 83.7%

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

      1. +-commutative 83.7%

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

      2. mul-1-neg 83.7%

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

      3. unsub-neg 83.7%

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

   6. Simplified 83.7%

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

4. Final simplification 82.4%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -9.6 \cdot 10^{-119}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 9 \cdot 10^{-144}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(b - \sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)}\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 6: 80.5% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1.4 \cdot 10^{-128}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 9.5 \cdot 10^{-41}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b + \sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)}}{a \cdot -2}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -1.4e-128)
   (/ (- c) b)
   (if (<= b 9.5e-41)
     (/ (+ 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 <= -1.4e-128) {
		tmp = -c / b;
	} else if (b <= 9.5e-41) {
		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 <= (-1.4d-128)) then
        tmp = -c / b
    else if (b <= 9.5d-41) 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 <= -1.4e-128) {
		tmp = -c / b;
	} else if (b <= 9.5e-41) {
		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 <= -1.4e-128:
		tmp = -c / b
	elif b <= 9.5e-41:
		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 <= -1.4e-128)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-c) / b);
	elseif (b <= 9.5e-41)
		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 <= -1.4e-128)
		tmp = -c / b;
	elseif (b <= 9.5e-41)
		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, -1.4e-128], N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 9.5e-41], 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 < -1.3999999999999999e-128

   1. Initial program 16.6%

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

      1. *-commutative 16.6%

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

      2. sqr-neg 16.6%

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

      3. *-commutative 16.6%

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

      4. sqr-neg 16.6%

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

      5. *-commutative 16.6%

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

      6. associate-*r* 16.6%

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

      7. *-commutative 16.6%

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

   3. Simplified 16.6%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 84.2%

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

      1. mul-1-neg 84.2%

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

      2. distribute-neg-frac 84.2%

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

   6. Simplified 84.2%

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

   if -1.3999999999999999e-128 < b < 9.4999999999999997e-41

   1. Initial program 78.4%

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

      1. *-commutative 78.4%

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

      2. sqr-neg 78.4%

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

      3. *-commutative 78.4%

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

      4. sqr-neg 78.4%

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

      5. *-commutative 78.4%

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

      6. associate-*r* 78.4%

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

      7. *-commutative 78.4%

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

   3. Simplified 78.4%

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

      1. add-sqr-sqrt 78.0%

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

      2. pow2 78.0%

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

      3. pow1/2 78.0%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - {\left(\sqrt{\color{blue}{{\left(b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a\right)}^{0.5}}}\right)}^{2}}{a \cdot 2} \]

      4. sqrt-pow1 78.1%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - {\color{blue}{\left({\left(b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a\right)}^{\left(\frac{0.5}{2}\right)}\right)}}^{2}}{a \cdot 2} \]

      5. fma-neg 78.1%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - {\left({\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -\left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a\right)\right)}}^{\left(\frac{0.5}{2}\right)}\right)}^{2}}{a \cdot 2} \]

      6. *-commutative 78.1%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - {\left({\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -\color{blue}{a \cdot \left(4 \cdot c\right)}\right)\right)}^{\left(\frac{0.5}{2}\right)}\right)}^{2}}{a \cdot 2} \]

      7. distribute-rgt-neg-in 78.1%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - {\left({\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \color{blue}{a \cdot \left(-4 \cdot c\right)}\right)\right)}^{\left(\frac{0.5}{2}\right)}\right)}^{2}}{a \cdot 2} \]

      8. *-commutative 78.1%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - {\left({\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(-\color{blue}{c \cdot 4}\right)\right)\right)}^{\left(\frac{0.5}{2}\right)}\right)}^{2}}{a \cdot 2} \]

      9. distribute-rgt-neg-in 78.1%

         \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - {\left({\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot \left(-4\right)\right)}\right)\right)}^{\left(\frac{0.5}{2}\right)}\right)}^{2}}{a \cdot 2} \]

      10. metadata-eval 78.1%

          \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - {\left({\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot \color{blue}{-4}\right)\right)\right)}^{\left(\frac{0.5}{2}\right)}\right)}^{2}}{a \cdot 2} \]

      11. metadata-eval 78.1%

          \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - {\left({\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)\right)\right)}^{\color{blue}{0.25}}\right)}^{2}}{a \cdot 2} \]

   5. Applied egg-rr 78.1%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - \color{blue}{{\left({\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)\right)\right)}^{0.25}\right)}^{2}}}{a \cdot 2} \]

   6. Taylor expanded in b around 0 69.5%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\right) - {\color{blue}{\left({\left(-4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)\right)}^{0.25}\right)}}^{2}}{a \cdot 2} \]

   7. Taylor expanded in a around 0 43.7%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \frac{b + {\left(e^{0.25 \cdot \left(\log a + \log \left(-4 \cdot c\right)\right)}\right)}^{2}}{a}} \]
   8. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 43.7%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b + {\left(e^{0.25 \cdot \left(\log a + \log \left(-4 \cdot c\right)\right)}\right)}^{2}}{a} \cdot -0.5} \]

   9. Simplified 69.8%

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

   if 9.4999999999999997e-41 < b

   1. Initial program 67.1%

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

      1. *-commutative 67.1%

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

      2. sqr-neg 67.1%

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

      3. *-commutative 67.1%

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

      4. sqr-neg 67.1%

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

      5. *-commutative 67.1%

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

      6. associate-*r* 67.1%

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

      7. *-commutative 67.1%

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

   3. Simplified 67.1%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 90.5%

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

      1. +-commutative 90.5%

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

      2. mul-1-neg 90.5%

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

      3. unsub-neg 90.5%

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

   6. Simplified 90.5%

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

4. Final simplification 82.8%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1.4 \cdot 10^{-128}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 9.5 \cdot 10^{-41}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b + \sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)}}{a \cdot -2}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 7: 67.8% accurate, 12.8× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1 \cdot 10^{-309}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -1e-309) (/ (- c) b) (- (/ c b) (/ b a))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -1e-309) {
		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 <= (-1d-309)) 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 <= -1e-309) {
		tmp = -c / b;
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -1e-309:
		tmp = -c / b
	else:
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a)
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -1e-309)
		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 <= -1e-309)
		tmp = -c / b;
	else
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a);
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -1e-309], N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(b / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < -1.000000000000002e-309

   1. Initial program 28.5%

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

      1. *-commutative 28.5%

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

      2. sqr-neg 28.5%

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

      3. *-commutative 28.5%

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

      4. sqr-neg 28.5%

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

      5. *-commutative 28.5%

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

      6. associate-*r* 28.5%

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

      7. *-commutative 28.5%

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

   3. Simplified 28.5%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 71.0%

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

      1. mul-1-neg 71.0%

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

      2. distribute-neg-frac 71.0%

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

   6. Simplified 71.0%

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

   if -1.000000000000002e-309 < b

   1. Initial program 70.4%

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

      1. *-commutative 70.4%

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

      2. sqr-neg 70.4%

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

      3. *-commutative 70.4%

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

      4. sqr-neg 70.4%

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

      5. *-commutative 70.4%

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

      6. associate-*r* 70.5%

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

      7. *-commutative 70.5%

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

   3. Simplified 70.5%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 70.7%

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

      1. +-commutative 70.7%

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

      2. mul-1-neg 70.7%

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

      3. unsub-neg 70.7%

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

   6. Simplified 70.7%

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

4. Final simplification 70.9%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1 \cdot 10^{-309}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 8: 42.5% accurate, 19.1× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -9.8 \cdot 10^{+42}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-b}{a}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c) :precision binary64 (if (<= b -9.8e+42) (/ c b) (/ (- b) a)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -9.8e+42) {
		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 <= (-9.8d+42)) 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 <= -9.8e+42) {
		tmp = c / b;
	} else {
		tmp = -b / a;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -9.8e+42:
		tmp = c / b
	else:
		tmp = -b / a
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -9.8e+42)
		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 <= -9.8e+42)
		tmp = c / b;
	else
		tmp = -b / a;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -9.8e+42], N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision], N[((-b) / a), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < -9.8000000000000004e42

   1. Initial program 11.7%

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

      1. *-commutative 11.7%

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

      2. sqr-neg 11.7%

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

      3. *-commutative 11.7%

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

      4. sqr-neg 11.7%

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

      5. *-commutative 11.7%

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

      6. associate-*r* 11.7%

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

      7. *-commutative 11.7%

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

   3. Simplified 11.7%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 2.1%

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

      1. +-commutative 2.1%

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

      2. mul-1-neg 2.1%

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

      3. unsub-neg 2.1%

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

   6. Simplified 2.1%

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

   7. Taylor expanded in c around inf 32.7%

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

   if -9.8000000000000004e42 < b

   1. Initial program 62.1%

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

      1. *-commutative 62.1%

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

      2. sqr-neg 62.1%

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

      3. *-commutative 62.1%

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

      4. sqr-neg 62.1%

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

      5. *-commutative 62.1%

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

      6. associate-*r* 62.1%

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

      7. *-commutative 62.1%

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

   3. Simplified 62.1%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 45.8%

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

      1. associate-*r/ 45.8%

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

      2. mul-1-neg 45.8%

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

   6. Simplified 45.8%

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

4. Final simplification 41.9%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -9.8 \cdot 10^{+42}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-b}{a}\\ \end{array} \]

Alternative 9: 67.7% accurate, 19.1× speedup

Math

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

FPCore

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

C

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

Python

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

Julia

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

Wolfram

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

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < -1.9999999999999988e-309

   1. Initial program 28.7%

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

      1. *-commutative 28.7%

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

      2. sqr-neg 28.7%

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

      3. *-commutative 28.7%

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

      4. sqr-neg 28.7%

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

      5. *-commutative 28.7%

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

      6. associate-*r* 28.7%

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

      7. *-commutative 28.7%

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

   3. Simplified 28.7%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 71.4%

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

      1. mul-1-neg 71.4%

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

      2. distribute-neg-frac 71.4%

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

   6. Simplified 71.4%

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

   if -1.9999999999999988e-309 < b

   1. Initial program 69.8%

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

      1. *-commutative 69.8%

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

      2. sqr-neg 69.8%

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

      3. *-commutative 69.8%

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

      4. sqr-neg 69.8%

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

      5. *-commutative 69.8%

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

      6. associate-*r* 69.9%

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

      7. *-commutative 69.9%

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

   3. Simplified 69.9%

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

   4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 69.6%

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

      1. associate-*r/ 69.6%

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

      2. mul-1-neg 69.6%

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

   6. Simplified 69.6%

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

4. Final simplification 70.6%

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

Alternative 10: 2.5% accurate, 38.7× speedup

Math

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

FPCore

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

C

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

Java

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

Python

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

Julia

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

MATLAB

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

Wolfram

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

Derivation

1. Initial program 47.3%

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

   1. *-commutative 47.3%

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

   2. sqr-neg 47.3%

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

   3. *-commutative 47.3%

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

   4. sqr-neg 47.3%

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

   5. *-commutative 47.3%

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

   6. associate-*r* 47.3%

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

   7. *-commutative 47.3%

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

3. Simplified 47.3%

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

   1. clear-num 47.3%

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

   2. associate-/r/ 47.2%

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

   3. *-commutative 47.2%

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

   4. associate-/r* 47.2%

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

   5. metadata-eval 47.2%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{0.5}}{a} \cdot \left(\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}\right) \]

   6. add-sqr-sqrt 15.2%

      \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\sqrt{-b} \cdot \sqrt{-b}} - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}\right) \]

   7. sqrt-unprod 24.7%

      \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\sqrt{\left(-b\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)}} - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}\right) \]

   8. sqr-neg 24.7%

      \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(\sqrt{\color{blue}{b \cdot b}} - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}\right) \]

   9. sqrt-prod 13.9%

      \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\sqrt{b} \cdot \sqrt{b}} - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}\right) \]

   10. add-sqr-sqrt 26.8%

       \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(\color{blue}{b} - \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a}\right) \]

   11. fma-neg 26.8%

       \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(b - \sqrt{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -\left(4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a\right)}}\right) \]

   12. *-commutative 26.8%

       \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(b - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -\color{blue}{a \cdot \left(4 \cdot c\right)}\right)}\right) \]

   13. distribute-rgt-neg-in 26.8%

       \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(b - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, \color{blue}{a \cdot \left(-4 \cdot c\right)}\right)}\right) \]

   14. *-commutative 26.8%

       \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(b - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(-\color{blue}{c \cdot 4}\right)\right)}\right) \]

   15. distribute-rgt-neg-in 26.8%

       \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(b - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot \left(-4\right)\right)}\right)}\right) \]

   16. metadata-eval 26.8%

       \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(b - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot \color{blue}{-4}\right)\right)}\right) \]

5. Applied egg-rr 26.8%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(b - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)\right)}\right)} \]

6. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 2.4%

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

7. Final simplification 2.4%

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

Alternative 11: 10.7% 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 47.3%

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

   1. *-commutative 47.3%

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

   2. sqr-neg 47.3%

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

   3. *-commutative 47.3%

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

   4. sqr-neg 47.3%

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

   5. *-commutative 47.3%

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

   6. associate-*r* 47.3%

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

   7. *-commutative 47.3%

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

3. Simplified 47.3%

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

4. Taylor expanded in b around inf 33.0%

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

   1. +-commutative 33.0%

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

   2. mul-1-neg 33.0%

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

   3. unsub-neg 33.0%

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

6. Simplified 33.0%

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

7. Taylor expanded in c around inf 11.7%

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

8. Final simplification 11.7%

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

Developer target: 99.7% accurate, 0.1× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := \left|\frac{b}{2}\right|\\ t_1 := \sqrt{\left|a\right|} \cdot \sqrt{\left|c\right|}\\ t_2 := \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\mathsf{copysign}\left(a, c\right) = a:\\ \;\;\;\;\sqrt{t_0 - t_1} \cdot \sqrt{t_0 + t_1}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{hypot}\left(\frac{b}{2}, t_1\right)\\ \end{array}\\ \mathbf{if}\;b < 0:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{t_2 - \frac{b}{2}}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\frac{b}{2} + t_2}{-a}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0 (fabs (/ b 2.0)))
        (t_1 (* (sqrt (fabs a)) (sqrt (fabs c))))
        (t_2
         (if (== (copysign a c) a)
           (* (sqrt (- t_0 t_1)) (sqrt (+ t_0 t_1)))
           (hypot (/ b 2.0) t_1))))
   (if (< b 0.0) (/ c (- t_2 (/ b 2.0))) (/ (+ (/ b 2.0) t_2) (- a)))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double t_0 = fabs((b / 2.0));
	double t_1 = sqrt(fabs(a)) * sqrt(fabs(c));
	double tmp;
	if (copysign(a, c) == a) {
		tmp = sqrt((t_0 - t_1)) * sqrt((t_0 + t_1));
	} else {
		tmp = hypot((b / 2.0), t_1);
	}
	double t_2 = tmp;
	double tmp_1;
	if (b < 0.0) {
		tmp_1 = c / (t_2 - (b / 2.0));
	} else {
		tmp_1 = ((b / 2.0) + t_2) / -a;
	}
	return tmp_1;
}

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double t_0 = Math.abs((b / 2.0));
	double t_1 = Math.sqrt(Math.abs(a)) * Math.sqrt(Math.abs(c));
	double tmp;
	if (Math.copySign(a, c) == a) {
		tmp = Math.sqrt((t_0 - t_1)) * Math.sqrt((t_0 + t_1));
	} else {
		tmp = Math.hypot((b / 2.0), t_1);
	}
	double t_2 = tmp;
	double tmp_1;
	if (b < 0.0) {
		tmp_1 = c / (t_2 - (b / 2.0));
	} else {
		tmp_1 = ((b / 2.0) + t_2) / -a;
	}
	return tmp_1;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	t_0 = math.fabs((b / 2.0))
	t_1 = math.sqrt(math.fabs(a)) * math.sqrt(math.fabs(c))
	tmp = 0
	if math.copysign(a, c) == a:
		tmp = math.sqrt((t_0 - t_1)) * math.sqrt((t_0 + t_1))
	else:
		tmp = math.hypot((b / 2.0), t_1)
	t_2 = tmp
	tmp_1 = 0
	if b < 0.0:
		tmp_1 = c / (t_2 - (b / 2.0))
	else:
		tmp_1 = ((b / 2.0) + t_2) / -a
	return tmp_1

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	t_0 = abs(Float64(b / 2.0))
	t_1 = Float64(sqrt(abs(a)) * sqrt(abs(c)))
	tmp = 0.0
	if (copysign(a, c) == a)
		tmp = Float64(sqrt(Float64(t_0 - t_1)) * sqrt(Float64(t_0 + t_1)));
	else
		tmp = hypot(Float64(b / 2.0), t_1);
	end
	t_2 = tmp
	tmp_1 = 0.0
	if (b < 0.0)
		tmp_1 = Float64(c / Float64(t_2 - Float64(b / 2.0)));
	else
		tmp_1 = Float64(Float64(Float64(b / 2.0) + t_2) / Float64(-a));
	end
	return tmp_1
end

MATLAB

function tmp_3 = code(a, b, c)
	t_0 = abs((b / 2.0));
	t_1 = sqrt(abs(a)) * sqrt(abs(c));
	tmp = 0.0;
	if ((sign(c) * abs(a)) == a)
		tmp = sqrt((t_0 - t_1)) * sqrt((t_0 + t_1));
	else
		tmp = hypot((b / 2.0), t_1);
	end
	t_2 = tmp;
	tmp_2 = 0.0;
	if (b < 0.0)
		tmp_2 = c / (t_2 - (b / 2.0));
	else
		tmp_2 = ((b / 2.0) + t_2) / -a;
	end
	tmp_3 = tmp_2;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := Block[{t$95$0 = N[Abs[N[(b / 2.0), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]}, Block[{t$95$1 = N[(N[Sqrt[N[Abs[a], $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] * N[Sqrt[N[Abs[c], $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]}, Block[{t$95$2 = If[Equal[N[With[{TMP1 = Abs[a], TMP2 = Sign[c]}, TMP1 * If[TMP2 == 0, 1, TMP2]], $MachinePrecision], a], N[(N[Sqrt[N[(t$95$0 - t$95$1), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] * N[Sqrt[N[(t$95$0 + t$95$1), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[Sqrt[N[(b / 2.0), $MachinePrecision] ^ 2 + t$95$1 ^ 2], $MachinePrecision]]}, If[Less[b, 0.0], N[(c / N[(t$95$2 - N[(b / 2.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(N[(b / 2.0), $MachinePrecision] + t$95$2), $MachinePrecision] / (-a)), $MachinePrecision]]]]]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2023320 
(FPCore (a b c)
  :name "quadm (p42, negative)"
  :precision binary64
  :herbie-expected 10

  :herbie-target
  (if (< b 0.0) (/ c (- (if (== (copysign a c) a) (* (sqrt (- (fabs (/ b 2.0)) (* (sqrt (fabs a)) (sqrt (fabs c))))) (sqrt (+ (fabs (/ b 2.0)) (* (sqrt (fabs a)) (sqrt (fabs c)))))) (hypot (/ b 2.0) (* (sqrt (fabs a)) (sqrt (fabs c))))) (/ b 2.0))) (/ (+ (/ b 2.0) (if (== (copysign a c) a) (* (sqrt (- (fabs (/ b 2.0)) (* (sqrt (fabs a)) (sqrt (fabs c))))) (sqrt (+ (fabs (/ b 2.0)) (* (sqrt (fabs a)) (sqrt (fabs c)))))) (hypot (/ b 2.0) (* (sqrt (fabs a)) (sqrt (fabs c)))))) (- a)))

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