quadm (p42, negative)

Percentage Accurate: 52.4% → 85.9%

Time: 15.6s

Alternatives: 8

Speedup: 12.9×

Specification

Math

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

FPCore

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

C

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

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b, c)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8), intent (in) :: c
    code = (-b - sqrt(((b * b) - (4.0d0 * (a * c))))) / (2.0d0 * a)
end function

Java

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

Python

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

Julia

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

MATLAB

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

Wolfram

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

Initial Program: 52.4% 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: 85.9% accurate, 0.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -2.5 \cdot 10^{-56}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 3.15 \cdot 10^{+150}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)}}{a \cdot 2}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-b}{a}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -2.5e-56)
   (/ (- c) b)
   (if (<= b 3.15e+150)
     (/ (- (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* 4.0 (* c a))))) (* a 2.0))
     (/ (- b) a))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -2.5e-56) {
		tmp = -c / b;
	} else if (b <= 3.15e+150) {
		tmp = (-b - sqrt(((b * b) - (4.0 * (c * a))))) / (a * 2.0);
	} else {
		tmp = -b / a;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b, c)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8), intent (in) :: c
    real(8) :: tmp
    if (b <= (-2.5d-56)) then
        tmp = -c / b
    else if (b <= 3.15d+150) then
        tmp = (-b - sqrt(((b * b) - (4.0d0 * (c * a))))) / (a * 2.0d0)
    else
        tmp = -b / a
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -2.5e-56) {
		tmp = -c / b;
	} else if (b <= 3.15e+150) {
		tmp = (-b - Math.sqrt(((b * b) - (4.0 * (c * a))))) / (a * 2.0);
	} else {
		tmp = -b / a;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -2.5e-56:
		tmp = -c / b
	elif b <= 3.15e+150:
		tmp = (-b - math.sqrt(((b * b) - (4.0 * (c * a))))) / (a * 2.0)
	else:
		tmp = -b / a
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -2.5e-56)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-c) / b);
	elseif (b <= 3.15e+150)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(Float64(-b) - sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(4.0 * Float64(c * a))))) / Float64(a * 2.0));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-b) / a);
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= -2.5e-56)
		tmp = -c / b;
	elseif (b <= 3.15e+150)
		tmp = (-b - sqrt(((b * b) - (4.0 * (c * a))))) / (a * 2.0);
	else
		tmp = -b / a;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -2.5e-56], N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 3.15e+150], N[(N[((-b) - N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(4.0 * N[(c * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * 2.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[((-b) / a), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -2.49999999999999999e-56

   1. Initial program 7.9%

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

      1. *-commutative 7.9%

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

      2. sqr-neg 7.9%

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

      3. *-commutative 7.9%

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

      4. sqr-neg 7.9%

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

      5. associate-*r* 7.9%

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

      6. *-commutative 7.9%

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

   3. Simplified 7.9%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 92.2%

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

      1. mul-1-neg 92.2%

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

   7. Simplified 92.2%

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

   if -2.49999999999999999e-56 < b < 3.15000000000000015e150

   1. Initial program 77.9%

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

   if 3.15000000000000015e150 < b

   1. Initial program 43.5%

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

      1. *-commutative 43.5%

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

      2. sqr-neg 43.5%

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

      3. *-commutative 43.5%

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

      4. sqr-neg 43.5%

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

      5. associate-*r* 43.5%

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

      6. *-commutative 43.5%

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

   3. Simplified 43.5%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around inf 100.0%

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

      1. associate-*r/ 100.0%

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

      2. mul-1-neg 100.0%

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

   7. Simplified 100.0%

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

4. Final simplification 85.8%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -2.5 \cdot 10^{-56}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 3.15 \cdot 10^{+150}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)}}{a \cdot 2}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-b}{a}\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 2: 80.7% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -5.2 \cdot 10^{-61}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 4.5 \cdot 10^{-28}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{b + {\left(a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)\right)}^{0.5}}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -5.2e-61)
   (/ (- c) b)
   (if (<= b 4.5e-28)
     (* -0.5 (/ (+ b (pow (* a (* c -4.0)) 0.5)) a))
     (- (/ c b) (/ b a)))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -5.2e-61) {
		tmp = -c / b;
	} else if (b <= 4.5e-28) {
		tmp = -0.5 * ((b + pow((a * (c * -4.0)), 0.5)) / a);
	} 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 <= (-5.2d-61)) then
        tmp = -c / b
    else if (b <= 4.5d-28) then
        tmp = (-0.5d0) * ((b + ((a * (c * (-4.0d0))) ** 0.5d0)) / a)
    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 <= -5.2e-61) {
		tmp = -c / b;
	} else if (b <= 4.5e-28) {
		tmp = -0.5 * ((b + Math.pow((a * (c * -4.0)), 0.5)) / a);
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -5.2e-61:
		tmp = -c / b
	elif b <= 4.5e-28:
		tmp = -0.5 * ((b + math.pow((a * (c * -4.0)), 0.5)) / a)
	else:
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a)
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -5.2e-61)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-c) / b);
	elseif (b <= 4.5e-28)
		tmp = Float64(-0.5 * Float64(Float64(b + (Float64(a * Float64(c * -4.0)) ^ 0.5)) / a));
	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 <= -5.2e-61)
		tmp = -c / b;
	elseif (b <= 4.5e-28)
		tmp = -0.5 * ((b + ((a * (c * -4.0)) ^ 0.5)) / a);
	else
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a);
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -5.2e-61], N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 4.5e-28], N[(-0.5 * N[(N[(b + N[Power[N[(a * N[(c * -4.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], 0.5], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(b / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -5.20000000000000021e-61

   1. Initial program 7.9%

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

      1. *-commutative 7.9%

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

      2. sqr-neg 7.9%

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

      3. *-commutative 7.9%

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

      4. sqr-neg 7.9%

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

      5. associate-*r* 7.9%

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

      6. *-commutative 7.9%

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

   3. Simplified 7.9%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 92.2%

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

      1. mul-1-neg 92.2%

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

   7. Simplified 92.2%

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

   if -5.20000000000000021e-61 < b < 4.4999999999999998e-28

   1. Initial program 70.5%

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

      1. sub-neg 70.5%

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

      2. distribute-neg-out 70.5%

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

      3. neg-mul-1 70.5%

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

      4. times-frac 70.5%

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

      5. metadata-eval 70.5%

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

      6. sub-neg 70.5%

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

      7. +-commutative 70.5%

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

      8. *-commutative 70.5%

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

      9. distribute-lft-neg-in 70.5%

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

      10. distribute-rgt-neg-out 70.5%

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

      11. associate-*l* 70.5%

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

      12. fma-def 70.5%

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

      13. distribute-lft-neg-in 70.5%

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

      14. distribute-rgt-neg-in 70.5%

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

      15. metadata-eval 70.5%

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

   3. Simplified 70.5%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in a around inf 63.8%

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

      1. *-commutative 63.8%

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

      2. associate-*r* 63.8%

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

   7. Simplified 63.8%

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

      1. pow1/2 63.8%

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

   9. Applied egg-rr 63.8%

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

   if 4.4999999999999998e-28 < b

   1. Initial program 70.3%

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

      1. *-commutative 70.3%

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

      2. sqr-neg 70.3%

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

      3. *-commutative 70.3%

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

      4. sqr-neg 70.3%

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

      5. associate-*r* 70.3%

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

      6. *-commutative 70.3%

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

   3. Simplified 70.3%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around inf 89.4%

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

      1. +-commutative 89.4%

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

      2. mul-1-neg 89.4%

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

      3. unsub-neg 89.4%

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

   7. Simplified 89.4%

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

4. Final simplification 81.9%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -5.2 \cdot 10^{-61}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 4.5 \cdot 10^{-28}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{b + {\left(a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)\right)}^{0.5}}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 3: 80.5% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1.3 \cdot 10^{-57}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 3.5 \cdot 10^{-24}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{b + \sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)}}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -1.3e-57)
   (/ (- c) b)
   (if (<= b 3.5e-24)
     (* -0.5 (/ (+ b (sqrt (* a (* c -4.0)))) a))
     (- (/ c b) (/ b a)))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -1.3e-57) {
		tmp = -c / b;
	} else if (b <= 3.5e-24) {
		tmp = -0.5 * ((b + sqrt((a * (c * -4.0)))) / a);
	} 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 <= (-1.3d-57)) then
        tmp = -c / b
    else if (b <= 3.5d-24) then
        tmp = (-0.5d0) * ((b + sqrt((a * (c * (-4.0d0))))) / a)
    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 <= -1.3e-57) {
		tmp = -c / b;
	} else if (b <= 3.5e-24) {
		tmp = -0.5 * ((b + Math.sqrt((a * (c * -4.0)))) / a);
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -1.3e-57:
		tmp = -c / b
	elif b <= 3.5e-24:
		tmp = -0.5 * ((b + math.sqrt((a * (c * -4.0)))) / a)
	else:
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a)
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -1.3e-57)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-c) / b);
	elseif (b <= 3.5e-24)
		tmp = Float64(-0.5 * Float64(Float64(b + sqrt(Float64(a * Float64(c * -4.0)))) / a));
	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 <= -1.3e-57)
		tmp = -c / b;
	elseif (b <= 3.5e-24)
		tmp = -0.5 * ((b + sqrt((a * (c * -4.0)))) / a);
	else
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a);
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -1.3e-57], N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 3.5e-24], N[(-0.5 * N[(N[(b + N[Sqrt[N[(a * N[(c * -4.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(b / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -1.29999999999999993e-57

   1. Initial program 7.9%

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

      1. *-commutative 7.9%

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

      2. sqr-neg 7.9%

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

      3. *-commutative 7.9%

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

      4. sqr-neg 7.9%

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

      5. associate-*r* 7.9%

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

      6. *-commutative 7.9%

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

   3. Simplified 7.9%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 92.2%

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

      1. mul-1-neg 92.2%

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

   7. Simplified 92.2%

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

   if -1.29999999999999993e-57 < b < 3.4999999999999996e-24

   1. Initial program 70.5%

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

      1. sub-neg 70.5%

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

      2. distribute-neg-out 70.5%

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

      3. neg-mul-1 70.5%

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

      4. times-frac 70.5%

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

      5. metadata-eval 70.5%

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

      6. sub-neg 70.5%

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

      7. +-commutative 70.5%

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

      8. *-commutative 70.5%

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

      9. distribute-lft-neg-in 70.5%

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

      10. distribute-rgt-neg-out 70.5%

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

      11. associate-*l* 70.5%

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

      12. fma-def 70.5%

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

      13. distribute-lft-neg-in 70.5%

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

      14. distribute-rgt-neg-in 70.5%

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

      15. metadata-eval 70.5%

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

   3. Simplified 70.5%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in a around inf 63.8%

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

      1. *-commutative 63.8%

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

      2. associate-*r* 63.8%

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

   7. Simplified 63.8%

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

   if 3.4999999999999996e-24 < b

   1. Initial program 70.3%

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

      1. *-commutative 70.3%

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

      2. sqr-neg 70.3%

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

      3. *-commutative 70.3%

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

      4. sqr-neg 70.3%

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

      5. associate-*r* 70.3%

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

      6. *-commutative 70.3%

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

   3. Simplified 70.3%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around inf 89.4%

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

      1. +-commutative 89.4%

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

      2. mul-1-neg 89.4%

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

      3. unsub-neg 89.4%

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

   7. Simplified 89.4%

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

4. Final simplification 81.9%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1.3 \cdot 10^{-57}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 3.5 \cdot 10^{-24}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{b + \sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)}}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 4: 67.2% accurate, 9.7× speedup

Math

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

FPCore

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

C

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

Fortran

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

Java

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

Python

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

Julia

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

MATLAB

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

Wolfram

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

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < -4.999999999999985e-310

   1. Initial program 28.4%

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

      1. *-commutative 28.4%

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

      2. sqr-neg 28.4%

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

      3. *-commutative 28.4%

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

      4. sqr-neg 28.4%

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

      5. associate-*r* 28.4%

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

      6. *-commutative 28.4%

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

   3. Simplified 28.4%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 67.0%

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

      1. mul-1-neg 67.0%

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

   7. Simplified 67.0%

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

   if -4.999999999999985e-310 < b

   1. Initial program 70.6%

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

      1. *-commutative 70.6%

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

      2. sqr-neg 70.6%

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

      3. *-commutative 70.6%

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

      4. sqr-neg 70.6%

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

      5. associate-*r* 70.6%

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

      6. *-commutative 70.6%

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

   3. Simplified 70.6%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around inf 66.9%

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

      1. +-commutative 66.9%

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

      2. mul-1-neg 66.9%

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

      3. unsub-neg 66.9%

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

   7. Simplified 66.9%

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

4. Final simplification 66.9%

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

Alternative 5: 67.0% accurate, 12.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1.55 \cdot 10^{-298}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-b}{a}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -1.55e-298) (/ (- c) b) (/ (- b) a)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -1.55e-298) {
		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 <= (-1.55d-298)) 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 <= -1.55e-298) {
		tmp = -c / b;
	} else {
		tmp = -b / a;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -1.55e-298:
		tmp = -c / b
	else:
		tmp = -b / a
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -1.55e-298)
		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 <= -1.55e-298)
		tmp = -c / b;
	else
		tmp = -b / a;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -1.55e-298], N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision], N[((-b) / a), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < -1.5500000000000001e-298

   1. Initial program 27.2%

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

      1. *-commutative 27.2%

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

      2. sqr-neg 27.2%

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

      3. *-commutative 27.2%

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

      4. sqr-neg 27.2%

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

      5. associate-*r* 27.2%

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

      6. *-commutative 27.2%

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

   3. Simplified 27.2%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 68.0%

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

      1. mul-1-neg 68.0%

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

   7. Simplified 68.0%

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

   if -1.5500000000000001e-298 < b

   1. Initial program 71.1%

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

      1. *-commutative 71.1%

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

      2. sqr-neg 71.1%

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

      3. *-commutative 71.1%

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

      4. sqr-neg 71.1%

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

      5. associate-*r* 71.1%

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

      6. *-commutative 71.1%

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

   3. Simplified 71.1%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around inf 65.4%

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

      1. associate-*r/ 65.4%

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

      2. mul-1-neg 65.4%

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

   7. Simplified 65.4%

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

4. Final simplification 66.6%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1.55 \cdot 10^{-298}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-b}{a}\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 6: 34.9% accurate, 29.0× 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(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 49.7%

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

   1. *-commutative 49.7%

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

   2. sqr-neg 49.7%

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

   3. *-commutative 49.7%

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

   4. sqr-neg 49.7%

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

   5. associate-*r* 49.7%

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

   6. *-commutative 49.7%

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

3. Simplified 49.7%

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

5. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 34.5%

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

   1. mul-1-neg 34.5%

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

7. Simplified 34.5%

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

8. Final simplification 34.5%

   \[\leadsto \frac{-c}{b} \]
9. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 7: 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 49.7%

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

   1. *-commutative 49.7%

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

   2. sqr-neg 49.7%

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

   3. *-commutative 49.7%

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

   4. sqr-neg 49.7%

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

   5. associate-*r* 49.7%

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

   6. *-commutative 49.7%

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

3. Simplified 49.7%

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

6. Applied egg-rr 29.4%

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

   1. unpow-1 29.4%

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

8. Simplified 29.4%

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

9. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 2.5%

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

10. Taylor expanded in a around 0 2.5%

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

11. Final simplification 2.5%

    \[\leadsto \frac{b}{a} \]
12. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 8: 10.8% 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 49.7%

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

   1. *-commutative 49.7%

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

   2. sqr-neg 49.7%

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

   3. *-commutative 49.7%

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

   4. sqr-neg 49.7%

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

   5. associate-*r* 49.7%

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

   6. *-commutative 49.7%

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

3. Simplified 49.7%

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

6. Applied egg-rr 29.4%

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

   1. unpow-1 29.4%

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

8. Simplified 29.4%

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

9. Taylor expanded in a around 0 8.9%

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

10. Final simplification 8.9%

    \[\leadsto \frac{c}{b} \]
11. Add Preprocessing

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 2024031 
(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)))