quadm (p42, negative)

Percentage Accurate: 52.3% → 85.8%

Time: 16.3s

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: 52.3% 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: 85.8% accurate, 0.5× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -6.6 \cdot 10^{-68}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{-b}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 1.3 \cdot 10^{+106}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, c \cdot \left(-4 \cdot a\right)\right)}}{a \cdot 2}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-b}{a}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -6.6e-68)
   (/ c (- b))
   (if (<= b 1.3e+106)
     (/ (- (- b) (sqrt (fma b b (* c (* -4.0 a))))) (* a 2.0))
     (/ (- b) a))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -6.6e-68) {
		tmp = c / -b;
	} else if (b <= 1.3e+106) {
		tmp = (-b - sqrt(fma(b, b, (c * (-4.0 * a))))) / (a * 2.0);
	} else {
		tmp = -b / a;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -6.6e-68)
		tmp = Float64(c / Float64(-b));
	elseif (b <= 1.3e+106)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(Float64(-b) - sqrt(fma(b, b, Float64(c * Float64(-4.0 * a))))) / Float64(a * 2.0));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-b) / a);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -6.6e-68], N[(c / (-b)), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 1.3e+106], N[(N[((-b) - N[Sqrt[N[(b * b + N[(c * N[(-4.0 * 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 < -6.5999999999999997e-68

   1. Initial program 16.7%

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

      1. div-sub 12.6%

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

      2. sub-neg 12.6%

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

      3. neg-mul-1 12.6%

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

      4. *-commutative 12.6%

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

      5. associate-/l* 12.5%

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

      6. distribute-neg-frac 12.5%

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

      7. neg-mul-1 12.5%

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

      8. *-commutative 12.5%

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

      9. associate-/l* 12.6%

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

      10. distribute-rgt-out 16.7%

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

      11. associate-/r* 16.7%

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

      12. metadata-eval 16.7%

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

      13. sub-neg 16.7%

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

      14. +-commutative 16.7%

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

   3. Simplified 16.7%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 86.7%

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

      1. mul-1-neg 86.7%

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

      2. distribute-neg-frac2 86.7%

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

   7. Simplified 86.7%

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

   if -6.5999999999999997e-68 < b < 1.3000000000000001e106

   1. Initial program 80.4%

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

      1. *-commutative 80.4%

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

      2. fma-neg 80.4%

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

      3. *-commutative 80.4%

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

      4. associate-*r* 80.4%

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

      5. distribute-lft-neg-in 80.4%

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

      6. *-commutative 80.4%

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

      7. distribute-rgt-neg-in 80.4%

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

      8. associate-*r* 80.4%

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

      9. metadata-eval 80.4%

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

   3. Simplified 80.4%

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

   if 1.3000000000000001e106 < b

   1. Initial program 54.2%

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

      1. div-sub 54.2%

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

      2. sub-neg 54.2%

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

      3. neg-mul-1 54.2%

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

      4. *-commutative 54.2%

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

      5. associate-/l* 54.1%

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

      6. distribute-neg-frac 54.1%

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

      7. neg-mul-1 54.1%

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

      8. *-commutative 54.1%

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

      9. associate-/l* 54.1%

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

      10. distribute-rgt-out 54.1%

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

      11. associate-/r* 54.1%

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

      12. metadata-eval 54.1%

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

      13. sub-neg 54.1%

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

      14. +-commutative 54.1%

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

   3. Simplified 54.4%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in a around 0 95.9%

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

      1. associate-*r/ 95.9%

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

      2. mul-1-neg 95.9%

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

   7. Simplified 95.9%

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

4. Final simplification 85.3%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -6.6 \cdot 10^{-68}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{-b}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 1.3 \cdot 10^{+106}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, c \cdot \left(-4 \cdot a\right)\right)}}{a \cdot 2}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-b}{a}\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 2: 85.9% accurate, 0.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1.4 \cdot 10^{-57}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{-b}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 1.25 \cdot 10^{+104}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)}}{a \cdot 2}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-b}{a}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -1.4e-57)
   (/ c (- b))
   (if (<= b 1.25e+104)
     (/ (- (- 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 <= -1.4e-57) {
		tmp = c / -b;
	} else if (b <= 1.25e+104) {
		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 <= (-1.4d-57)) then
        tmp = c / -b
    else if (b <= 1.25d+104) 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 <= -1.4e-57) {
		tmp = c / -b;
	} else if (b <= 1.25e+104) {
		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 <= -1.4e-57:
		tmp = c / -b
	elif b <= 1.25e+104:
		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 <= -1.4e-57)
		tmp = Float64(c / Float64(-b));
	elseif (b <= 1.25e+104)
		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 <= -1.4e-57)
		tmp = c / -b;
	elseif (b <= 1.25e+104)
		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, -1.4e-57], N[(c / (-b)), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 1.25e+104], 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 < -1.4e-57

   1. Initial program 16.7%

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

      1. div-sub 12.6%

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

      2. sub-neg 12.6%

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

      3. neg-mul-1 12.6%

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

      4. *-commutative 12.6%

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

      5. associate-/l* 12.5%

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

      6. distribute-neg-frac 12.5%

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

      7. neg-mul-1 12.5%

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

      8. *-commutative 12.5%

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

      9. associate-/l* 12.6%

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

      10. distribute-rgt-out 16.7%

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

      11. associate-/r* 16.7%

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

      12. metadata-eval 16.7%

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

      13. sub-neg 16.7%

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

      14. +-commutative 16.7%

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

   3. Simplified 16.7%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 86.7%

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

      1. mul-1-neg 86.7%

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

      2. distribute-neg-frac2 86.7%

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

   7. Simplified 86.7%

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

   if -1.4e-57 < b < 1.2499999999999999e104

   1. Initial program 80.4%

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

   if 1.2499999999999999e104 < b

   1. Initial program 54.2%

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

      1. div-sub 54.2%

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

      2. sub-neg 54.2%

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

      3. neg-mul-1 54.2%

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

      4. *-commutative 54.2%

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

      5. associate-/l* 54.1%

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

      6. distribute-neg-frac 54.1%

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

      7. neg-mul-1 54.1%

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

      8. *-commutative 54.1%

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

      9. associate-/l* 54.1%

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

      10. distribute-rgt-out 54.1%

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

      11. associate-/r* 54.1%

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

      12. metadata-eval 54.1%

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

      13. sub-neg 54.1%

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

      14. +-commutative 54.1%

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

   3. Simplified 54.4%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in a around 0 95.9%

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

      1. associate-*r/ 95.9%

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

      2. mul-1-neg 95.9%

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

   7. Simplified 95.9%

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

4. Final simplification 85.2%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1.4 \cdot 10^{-57}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{-b}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 1.25 \cdot 10^{+104}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)}}{a \cdot 2}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-b}{a}\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 3: 80.9% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1.2 \cdot 10^{-73}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{-b}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 1.5 \cdot 10^{-59}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-0.5}{a} \cdot \left(b + \sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)}\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -1.2e-73)
   (/ c (- b))
   (if (<= b 1.5e-59)
     (* (/ -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 <= -1.2e-73) {
		tmp = c / -b;
	} else if (b <= 1.5e-59) {
		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 <= (-1.2d-73)) then
        tmp = c / -b
    else if (b <= 1.5d-59) 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 <= -1.2e-73) {
		tmp = c / -b;
	} else if (b <= 1.5e-59) {
		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 <= -1.2e-73:
		tmp = c / -b
	elif b <= 1.5e-59:
		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 <= -1.2e-73)
		tmp = Float64(c / Float64(-b));
	elseif (b <= 1.5e-59)
		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 <= -1.2e-73)
		tmp = c / -b;
	elseif (b <= 1.5e-59)
		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, -1.2e-73], N[(c / (-b)), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 1.5e-59], 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 < -1.20000000000000003e-73

   1. Initial program 18.1%

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

      1. div-sub 14.2%

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

      2. sub-neg 14.2%

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

      3. neg-mul-1 14.2%

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

      4. *-commutative 14.2%

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

      5. associate-/l* 14.1%

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

      6. distribute-neg-frac 14.1%

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

      7. neg-mul-1 14.1%

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

      8. *-commutative 14.1%

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

      9. associate-/l* 14.2%

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

      10. distribute-rgt-out 18.1%

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

      11. associate-/r* 18.1%

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

      12. metadata-eval 18.1%

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

      13. sub-neg 18.1%

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

      14. +-commutative 18.1%

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

   3. Simplified 18.1%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 85.5%

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

      1. mul-1-neg 85.5%

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

      2. distribute-neg-frac2 85.5%

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

   7. Simplified 85.5%

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

   if -1.20000000000000003e-73 < b < 1.5e-59

   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. div-sub 70.5%

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

      2. sub-neg 70.5%

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

      3. neg-mul-1 70.5%

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

      4. *-commutative 70.5%

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

      5. associate-/l* 70.7%

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

      6. distribute-neg-frac 70.7%

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

      7. neg-mul-1 70.7%

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

      8. *-commutative 70.7%

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

      9. associate-/l* 70.4%

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

      10. distribute-rgt-out 70.3%

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

      11. associate-/r* 70.3%

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

      12. metadata-eval 70.3%

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

      13. sub-neg 70.3%

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

      14. +-commutative 70.3%

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

   3. Simplified 70.3%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in a around inf 67.8%

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

      1. *-commutative 67.8%

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

      2. *-commutative 67.8%

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

      3. *-commutative 67.8%

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

      4. associate-*r* 67.8%

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

   7. Simplified 67.8%

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

   if 1.5e-59 < b

   1. Initial program 76.2%

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

      1. div-sub 76.2%

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

      2. sub-neg 76.2%

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

      3. neg-mul-1 76.2%

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

      4. *-commutative 76.2%

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

      5. associate-/l* 76.1%

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

      6. distribute-neg-frac 76.1%

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

      7. neg-mul-1 76.1%

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

      8. *-commutative 76.1%

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

      9. associate-/l* 76.0%

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

      10. distribute-rgt-out 76.0%

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

      11. associate-/r* 76.0%

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

      12. metadata-eval 76.0%

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

      13. sub-neg 76.0%

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

      14. +-commutative 76.0%

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

   3. Simplified 76.2%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in a around 0 87.0%

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

      1. +-commutative 87.0%

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

      2. mul-1-neg 87.0%

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

      3. unsub-neg 87.0%

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

   7. Simplified 87.0%

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

4. Final simplification 80.8%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1.2 \cdot 10^{-73}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{-b}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 1.5 \cdot 10^{-59}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-0.5}{a} \cdot \left(b + \sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)}\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 4: 68.0% accurate, 9.7× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -2 \cdot 10^{-310}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{-b}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -2e-310) (/ c (- b)) (- (/ c b) (/ b a))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -2e-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 <= (-2d-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 <= -2e-310) {
		tmp = c / -b;
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a);
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -2e-310:
		tmp = c / -b
	else:
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a)
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -2e-310)
		tmp = Float64(c / Float64(-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 <= -2e-310)
		tmp = c / -b;
	else
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a);
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -2e-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 < -1.999999999999994e-310

   1. Initial program 30.7%

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

      1. div-sub 27.9%

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

      2. sub-neg 27.9%

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

      3. neg-mul-1 27.9%

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

      4. *-commutative 27.9%

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

      5. associate-/l* 28.0%

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

      6. distribute-neg-frac 28.0%

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

      7. neg-mul-1 28.0%

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

      8. *-commutative 28.0%

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

      9. associate-/l* 27.9%

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

      10. distribute-rgt-out 30.6%

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

      11. associate-/r* 30.6%

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

      12. metadata-eval 30.6%

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

      13. sub-neg 30.6%

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

      14. +-commutative 30.6%

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

   3. Simplified 30.6%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 66.0%

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

      1. mul-1-neg 66.0%

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

      2. distribute-neg-frac2 66.0%

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

   7. Simplified 66.0%

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

   if -1.999999999999994e-310 < b

   1. Initial program 77.4%

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

      1. div-sub 77.4%

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

      2. sub-neg 77.4%

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

      3. neg-mul-1 77.4%

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

      4. *-commutative 77.4%

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

      5. associate-/l* 77.3%

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

      6. distribute-neg-frac 77.3%

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

      7. neg-mul-1 77.3%

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

      8. *-commutative 77.3%

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

      9. associate-/l* 77.2%

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

      10. distribute-rgt-out 77.2%

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

      11. associate-/r* 77.2%

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

      12. metadata-eval 77.2%

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

      13. sub-neg 77.2%

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

      14. +-commutative 77.2%

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

   3. Simplified 77.3%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in a around 0 64.8%

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

      1. +-commutative 64.8%

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

      2. mul-1-neg 64.8%

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

      3. unsub-neg 64.8%

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

   7. Simplified 64.8%

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

4. Final simplification 65.4%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -2 \cdot 10^{-310}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{-b}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 5: 67.8% accurate, 12.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -2 \cdot 10^{-310}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{-b}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-b}{a}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -2e-310) (/ c (- b)) (/ (- b) a)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -2e-310) {
		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-310)) 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-310) {
		tmp = c / -b;
	} else {
		tmp = -b / a;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -2e-310:
		tmp = c / -b
	else:
		tmp = -b / a
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -2e-310)
		tmp = Float64(c / Float64(-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-310)
		tmp = c / -b;
	else
		tmp = -b / a;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -2e-310], N[(c / (-b)), $MachinePrecision], N[((-b) / a), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < -1.999999999999994e-310

   1. Initial program 30.7%

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

      1. div-sub 27.9%

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

      2. sub-neg 27.9%

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

      3. neg-mul-1 27.9%

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

      4. *-commutative 27.9%

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

      5. associate-/l* 28.0%

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

      6. distribute-neg-frac 28.0%

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

      7. neg-mul-1 28.0%

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

      8. *-commutative 28.0%

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

      9. associate-/l* 27.9%

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

      10. distribute-rgt-out 30.6%

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

      11. associate-/r* 30.6%

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

      12. metadata-eval 30.6%

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

      13. sub-neg 30.6%

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

      14. +-commutative 30.6%

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

   3. Simplified 30.6%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 66.0%

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

      1. mul-1-neg 66.0%

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

      2. distribute-neg-frac2 66.0%

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

   7. Simplified 66.0%

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

   if -1.999999999999994e-310 < b

   1. Initial program 77.4%

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

      1. div-sub 77.4%

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

      2. sub-neg 77.4%

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

      3. neg-mul-1 77.4%

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

      4. *-commutative 77.4%

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

      5. associate-/l* 77.3%

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

      6. distribute-neg-frac 77.3%

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

      7. neg-mul-1 77.3%

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

      8. *-commutative 77.3%

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

      9. associate-/l* 77.2%

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

      10. distribute-rgt-out 77.2%

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

      11. associate-/r* 77.2%

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

      12. metadata-eval 77.2%

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

      13. sub-neg 77.2%

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

      14. +-commutative 77.2%

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

   3. Simplified 77.3%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in a around 0 64.3%

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

      1. associate-*r/ 64.3%

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

      2. mul-1-neg 64.3%

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

   7. Simplified 64.3%

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

4. Final simplification 65.1%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -2 \cdot 10^{-310}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{-b}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-b}{a}\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 6: 34.7% 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(c / Float64(-b))
end

MATLAB

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

Wolfram

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

Derivation

1. Initial program 54.8%

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

   1. div-sub 53.4%

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

   2. sub-neg 53.4%

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

   3. neg-mul-1 53.4%

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

   4. *-commutative 53.4%

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

   5. associate-/l* 53.4%

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

   6. distribute-neg-frac 53.4%

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

   7. neg-mul-1 53.4%

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

   8. *-commutative 53.4%

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

   9. associate-/l* 53.3%

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

   10. distribute-rgt-out 54.7%

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

   11. associate-/r* 54.7%

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

   12. metadata-eval 54.7%

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

   13. sub-neg 54.7%

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

   14. +-commutative 54.7%

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

3. Simplified 54.7%

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

5. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 33.2%

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

   1. mul-1-neg 33.2%

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

   2. distribute-neg-frac2 33.2%

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

7. Simplified 33.2%

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

8. Final simplification 33.2%

   \[\leadsto \frac{c}{-b} \]
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 54.8%

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

   1. *-commutative 54.8%

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

   2. *-commutative 54.8%

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

   3. sqr-neg 54.8%

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

   4. *-commutative 54.8%

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

   5. sqr-neg 54.8%

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

   6. *-commutative 54.8%

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

   7. associate-*r* 54.8%

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

3. Simplified 54.8%

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

6. Applied egg-rr 26.5%

   \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{{\left(\sqrt[3]{b - \mathsf{hypot}\left(b, \sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)}\right)}\right)}^{3}}}{a \cdot 2} \]

7. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 2.6%

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

8. Final simplification 2.6%

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

Alternative 8: 10.5% accurate, 38.7× speedup

Math

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

FPCore

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

C

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

Fortran

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

Java

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

Python

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

Julia

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

MATLAB

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

Wolfram

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

Derivation

1. Initial program 54.8%

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

   1. div-sub 53.4%

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

   2. sub-neg 53.4%

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

   3. neg-mul-1 53.4%

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

   4. *-commutative 53.4%

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

   5. associate-/l* 53.4%

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

   6. distribute-neg-frac 53.4%

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

   7. neg-mul-1 53.4%

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

   8. *-commutative 53.4%

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

   9. associate-/l* 53.3%

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

   10. distribute-rgt-out 54.7%

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

   11. associate-/r* 54.7%

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

   12. metadata-eval 54.7%

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

   13. sub-neg 54.7%

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

   14. +-commutative 54.7%

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

3. Simplified 54.7%

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

5. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 27.7%

   \[\leadsto \frac{-0.5}{a} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot \frac{a \cdot c}{b}\right)} \]
6. Step-by-step derivation

   1. *-commutative 27.7%

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

   2. associate-/l* 31.0%

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

7. Simplified 31.0%

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

   1. associate-*r/ 27.7%

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

   2. frac-2neg 27.7%

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

   3. add-sqr-sqrt 26.5%

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

   4. sqrt-unprod 23.5%

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

   5. sqr-neg 23.5%

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

   6. sqrt-unprod 1.7%

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

   7. add-sqr-sqrt 12.0%

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

9. Applied egg-rr 12.0%

   \[\leadsto \frac{-0.5}{a} \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\frac{-a \cdot c}{b}} \cdot 2\right) \]
10. Step-by-step derivation

    1. distribute-lft-neg-in 12.0%

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

    2. associate-*r/ 12.0%

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

11. Simplified 12.0%

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

12. Taylor expanded in a around 0 12.0%

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

13. Final simplification 12.0%

    \[\leadsto \frac{c}{b} \]
14. 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 2024043 
(FPCore (a b c)
  :name "quadm (p42, negative)"
  :precision binary64
  :herbie-expected 10

  :alt
  (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)))