Cubic critical

Percentage Accurate: 52.1% → 85.1%

Time: 13.9s

Alternatives: 10

Speedup: 11.6×

Specification

Math

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

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 3.0 a) c)))) (* 3.0 a)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c)))) / (3.0 * a);
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b, c)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8), intent (in) :: c
    code = (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0d0 * a) * c)))) / (3.0d0 * a)
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (-b + Math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c)))) / (3.0 * a);
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	return (-b + math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c)))) / (3.0 * a)

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	return Float64(Float64(Float64(-b) + sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(Float64(3.0 * a) * c)))) / Float64(3.0 * a))
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c)))) / (3.0 * a);
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := N[(N[((-b) + N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(N[(3.0 * a), $MachinePrecision] * c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(3.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]

Initial Program: 52.1% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

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

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 3.0 a) c)))) (* 3.0 a)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c)))) / (3.0 * a);
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b, c)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8), intent (in) :: c
    code = (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0d0 * a) * c)))) / (3.0d0 * a)
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (-b + Math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c)))) / (3.0 * a);
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	return (-b + math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c)))) / (3.0 * a)

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	return Float64(Float64(Float64(-b) + sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(Float64(3.0 * a) * c)))) / Float64(3.0 * a))
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c)))) / (3.0 * a);
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := N[(N[((-b) + N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(N[(3.0 * a), $MachinePrecision] * c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(3.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]

Alternative 1: 85.1% accurate, 0.5× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -5 \cdot 10^{+150}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b}{a \cdot -1.5}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 3.7 \cdot 10^{-25}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} \cdot -0.5\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -5e+150)
   (/ b (* a -1.5))
   (if (<= b 3.7e-25)
     (/ (- (sqrt (fma b b (* a (* c -3.0)))) b) (* a 3.0))
     (* (/ c b) -0.5))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -5e+150) {
		tmp = b / (a * -1.5);
	} else if (b <= 3.7e-25) {
		tmp = (sqrt(fma(b, b, (a * (c * -3.0)))) - b) / (a * 3.0);
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -5e+150)
		tmp = Float64(b / Float64(a * -1.5));
	elseif (b <= 3.7e-25)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(sqrt(fma(b, b, Float64(a * Float64(c * -3.0)))) - b) / Float64(a * 3.0));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(c / b) * -0.5);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -5e+150], N[(b / N[(a * -1.5), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 3.7e-25], N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(b * b + N[(a * N[(c * -3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] * -0.5), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -5.00000000000000009e150

   1. Initial program 44.5%

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

      1. neg-sub0 44.5%

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

      2. sqr-neg 44.5%

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

      3. associate-+l- 44.5%

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

      4. sub0-neg 44.5%

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

      5. sub-neg 44.5%

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

      6. distribute-neg-in 44.5%

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

      7. remove-double-neg 44.5%

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

      8. sqr-neg 44.5%

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

      9. associate-*l* 44.5%

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

   3. Simplified 44.5%

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

   6. Applied egg-rr 53.7%

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

   7. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 97.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a}} \]
   8. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 97.5%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{a} \cdot -0.6666666666666666} \]

      2. associate-*l/ 97.5%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b \cdot -0.6666666666666666}{a}} \]

      3. associate-/l* 97.5%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{-0.6666666666666666}{a}} \]

   9. Simplified 97.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{-0.6666666666666666}{a}} \]
   10. Step-by-step derivation

       1. clear-num 97.5%

          \[\leadsto b \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{1}{\frac{a}{-0.6666666666666666}}} \]

       2. un-div-inv 97.6%

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{\frac{a}{-0.6666666666666666}}} \]

       3. div-inv 97.6%

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{a \cdot \frac{1}{-0.6666666666666666}}} \]

       4. metadata-eval 97.6%

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{a \cdot \color{blue}{-1.5}} \]

   11. Applied egg-rr 97.6%

       \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{a \cdot -1.5}} \]

   if -5.00000000000000009e150 < b < 3.70000000000000009e-25

   1. Initial program 77.3%

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

      1. /-rgt-identity 77.3%

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

      2. metadata-eval 77.3%

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

   3. Simplified 77.3%

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

   if 3.70000000000000009e-25 < b

   1. Initial program 13.1%

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

      1. neg-sub0 13.1%

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

      2. sqr-neg 13.1%

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

      3. associate-+l- 13.1%

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

      4. sub0-neg 13.1%

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

      5. sub-neg 13.1%

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

      6. distribute-neg-in 13.1%

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

      7. remove-double-neg 13.1%

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

      8. sqr-neg 13.1%

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

      9. associate-*l* 13.1%

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

   3. Simplified 13.1%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around inf 95.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 95.0%

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

   7. Simplified 95.0%

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

4. Final simplification 86.5%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -5 \cdot 10^{+150}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b}{a \cdot -1.5}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 3.7 \cdot 10^{-25}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} \cdot -0.5\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 2: 85.1% accurate, 0.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1.25 \cdot 10^{+148}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b}{a \cdot -1.5}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 4.2 \cdot 10^{-22}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - 3 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} \cdot -0.5\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -1.25e+148)
   (/ b (* a -1.5))
   (if (<= b 4.2e-22)
     (/ (- (sqrt (- (* b b) (* 3.0 (* a c)))) b) (* a 3.0))
     (* (/ c b) -0.5))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -1.25e+148) {
		tmp = b / (a * -1.5);
	} else if (b <= 4.2e-22) {
		tmp = (sqrt(((b * b) - (3.0 * (a * c)))) - b) / (a * 3.0);
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5;
	}
	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 <= (-1.25d+148)) then
        tmp = b / (a * (-1.5d0))
    else if (b <= 4.2d-22) then
        tmp = (sqrt(((b * b) - (3.0d0 * (a * c)))) - b) / (a * 3.0d0)
    else
        tmp = (c / b) * (-0.5d0)
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -1.25e+148) {
		tmp = b / (a * -1.5);
	} else if (b <= 4.2e-22) {
		tmp = (Math.sqrt(((b * b) - (3.0 * (a * c)))) - b) / (a * 3.0);
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -1.25e+148:
		tmp = b / (a * -1.5)
	elif b <= 4.2e-22:
		tmp = (math.sqrt(((b * b) - (3.0 * (a * c)))) - b) / (a * 3.0)
	else:
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -1.25e+148)
		tmp = Float64(b / Float64(a * -1.5));
	elseif (b <= 4.2e-22)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(3.0 * Float64(a * c)))) - b) / Float64(a * 3.0));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(c / b) * -0.5);
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= -1.25e+148)
		tmp = b / (a * -1.5);
	elseif (b <= 4.2e-22)
		tmp = (sqrt(((b * b) - (3.0 * (a * c)))) - b) / (a * 3.0);
	else
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -1.25e+148], N[(b / N[(a * -1.5), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 4.2e-22], N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(3.0 * N[(a * c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] * -0.5), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -1.25000000000000006e148

   1. Initial program 44.5%

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

      1. neg-sub0 44.5%

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

      2. sqr-neg 44.5%

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

      3. associate-+l- 44.5%

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

      4. sub0-neg 44.5%

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

      5. sub-neg 44.5%

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

      6. distribute-neg-in 44.5%

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

      7. remove-double-neg 44.5%

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

      8. sqr-neg 44.5%

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

      9. associate-*l* 44.5%

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

   3. Simplified 44.5%

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

   6. Applied egg-rr 53.7%

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

   7. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 97.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a}} \]
   8. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 97.5%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{a} \cdot -0.6666666666666666} \]

      2. associate-*l/ 97.5%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b \cdot -0.6666666666666666}{a}} \]

      3. associate-/l* 97.5%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{-0.6666666666666666}{a}} \]

   9. Simplified 97.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{-0.6666666666666666}{a}} \]
   10. Step-by-step derivation

       1. clear-num 97.5%

          \[\leadsto b \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{1}{\frac{a}{-0.6666666666666666}}} \]

       2. un-div-inv 97.6%

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{\frac{a}{-0.6666666666666666}}} \]

       3. div-inv 97.6%

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{a \cdot \frac{1}{-0.6666666666666666}}} \]

       4. metadata-eval 97.6%

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{a \cdot \color{blue}{-1.5}} \]

   11. Applied egg-rr 97.6%

       \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{a \cdot -1.5}} \]

   if -1.25000000000000006e148 < b < 4.20000000000000016e-22

   1. Initial program 77.3%

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

      1. neg-sub0 77.3%

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

      2. sqr-neg 77.3%

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

      3. associate-+l- 77.3%

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

      4. sub0-neg 77.3%

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

      5. sub-neg 77.3%

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

      6. distribute-neg-in 77.3%

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

      7. remove-double-neg 77.3%

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

      8. sqr-neg 77.3%

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

      9. associate-*l* 77.3%

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

   3. Simplified 77.3%

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

   if 4.20000000000000016e-22 < b

   1. Initial program 13.1%

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

      1. neg-sub0 13.1%

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

      2. sqr-neg 13.1%

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

      3. associate-+l- 13.1%

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

      4. sub0-neg 13.1%

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

      5. sub-neg 13.1%

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

      6. distribute-neg-in 13.1%

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

      7. remove-double-neg 13.1%

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

      8. sqr-neg 13.1%

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

      9. associate-*l* 13.1%

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

   3. Simplified 13.1%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around inf 95.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 95.0%

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

   7. Simplified 95.0%

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

4. Final simplification 86.5%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1.25 \cdot 10^{+148}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b}{a \cdot -1.5}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 4.2 \cdot 10^{-22}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - 3 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} \cdot -0.5\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 3: 80.5% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1.35 \cdot 10^{-31}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a} + \frac{c}{b} \cdot 0.5\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 2.4 \cdot 10^{-25}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} \cdot -0.5\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -1.35e-31)
   (+ (* -0.6666666666666666 (/ b a)) (* (/ c b) 0.5))
   (if (<= b 2.4e-25)
     (/ (- (sqrt (* a (* c -3.0))) b) (* a 3.0))
     (* (/ c b) -0.5))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -1.35e-31) {
		tmp = (-0.6666666666666666 * (b / a)) + ((c / b) * 0.5);
	} else if (b <= 2.4e-25) {
		tmp = (sqrt((a * (c * -3.0))) - b) / (a * 3.0);
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5;
	}
	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 <= (-1.35d-31)) then
        tmp = ((-0.6666666666666666d0) * (b / a)) + ((c / b) * 0.5d0)
    else if (b <= 2.4d-25) then
        tmp = (sqrt((a * (c * (-3.0d0)))) - b) / (a * 3.0d0)
    else
        tmp = (c / b) * (-0.5d0)
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -1.35e-31) {
		tmp = (-0.6666666666666666 * (b / a)) + ((c / b) * 0.5);
	} else if (b <= 2.4e-25) {
		tmp = (Math.sqrt((a * (c * -3.0))) - b) / (a * 3.0);
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -1.35e-31:
		tmp = (-0.6666666666666666 * (b / a)) + ((c / b) * 0.5)
	elif b <= 2.4e-25:
		tmp = (math.sqrt((a * (c * -3.0))) - b) / (a * 3.0)
	else:
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -1.35e-31)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-0.6666666666666666 * Float64(b / a)) + Float64(Float64(c / b) * 0.5));
	elseif (b <= 2.4e-25)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(sqrt(Float64(a * Float64(c * -3.0))) - b) / Float64(a * 3.0));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(c / b) * -0.5);
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= -1.35e-31)
		tmp = (-0.6666666666666666 * (b / a)) + ((c / b) * 0.5);
	elseif (b <= 2.4e-25)
		tmp = (sqrt((a * (c * -3.0))) - b) / (a * 3.0);
	else
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -1.35e-31], N[(N[(-0.6666666666666666 * N[(b / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[(N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] * 0.5), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 2.4e-25], N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(a * N[(c * -3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] * -0.5), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -1.35000000000000007e-31

   1. Initial program 68.7%

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

      1. neg-sub0 68.7%

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

      2. sqr-neg 68.7%

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

      3. associate-+l- 68.7%

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

      4. sub0-neg 68.7%

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

      5. sub-neg 68.7%

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

      6. distribute-neg-in 68.7%

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

      7. remove-double-neg 68.7%

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

      8. sqr-neg 68.7%

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

      9. associate-*l* 68.7%

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

   3. Simplified 68.7%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 93.9%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{{b}^{2}} + 0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right)\right)} \]

   6. Taylor expanded in c around 0 94.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a} + 0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]

   if -1.35000000000000007e-31 < b < 2.40000000000000009e-25

   1. Initial program 69.5%

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

      1. neg-sub0 69.5%

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

      2. sqr-neg 69.5%

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

      3. associate-+l- 69.5%

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

      4. sub0-neg 69.5%

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

      5. sub-neg 69.5%

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

      6. distribute-neg-in 69.5%

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

      7. remove-double-neg 69.5%

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

      8. sqr-neg 69.5%

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

      9. associate-*l* 69.5%

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

   3. Simplified 69.5%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around 0 61.3%

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

      1. *-commutative 61.3%

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

      2. associate-*r* 61.3%

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

   7. Simplified 61.3%

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

   if 2.40000000000000009e-25 < b

   1. Initial program 13.1%

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

      1. neg-sub0 13.1%

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

      2. sqr-neg 13.1%

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

      3. associate-+l- 13.1%

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

      4. sub0-neg 13.1%

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

      5. sub-neg 13.1%

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

      6. distribute-neg-in 13.1%

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

      7. remove-double-neg 13.1%

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

      8. sqr-neg 13.1%

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

      9. associate-*l* 13.1%

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

   3. Simplified 13.1%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around inf 95.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 95.0%

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

   7. Simplified 95.0%

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

4. Final simplification 83.0%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1.35 \cdot 10^{-31}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a} + \frac{c}{b} \cdot 0.5\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 2.4 \cdot 10^{-25}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -3\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} \cdot -0.5\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 4: 80.5% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1.75 \cdot 10^{-31}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a} + \frac{c}{b} \cdot 0.5\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 2.4 \cdot 10^{-25}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{-3 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} \cdot -0.5\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -1.75e-31)
   (+ (* -0.6666666666666666 (/ b a)) (* (/ c b) 0.5))
   (if (<= b 2.4e-25)
     (/ (- (sqrt (* -3.0 (* a c))) b) (* a 3.0))
     (* (/ c b) -0.5))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -1.75e-31) {
		tmp = (-0.6666666666666666 * (b / a)) + ((c / b) * 0.5);
	} else if (b <= 2.4e-25) {
		tmp = (sqrt((-3.0 * (a * c))) - b) / (a * 3.0);
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5;
	}
	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 <= (-1.75d-31)) then
        tmp = ((-0.6666666666666666d0) * (b / a)) + ((c / b) * 0.5d0)
    else if (b <= 2.4d-25) then
        tmp = (sqrt(((-3.0d0) * (a * c))) - b) / (a * 3.0d0)
    else
        tmp = (c / b) * (-0.5d0)
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -1.75e-31) {
		tmp = (-0.6666666666666666 * (b / a)) + ((c / b) * 0.5);
	} else if (b <= 2.4e-25) {
		tmp = (Math.sqrt((-3.0 * (a * c))) - b) / (a * 3.0);
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -1.75e-31:
		tmp = (-0.6666666666666666 * (b / a)) + ((c / b) * 0.5)
	elif b <= 2.4e-25:
		tmp = (math.sqrt((-3.0 * (a * c))) - b) / (a * 3.0)
	else:
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -1.75e-31)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-0.6666666666666666 * Float64(b / a)) + Float64(Float64(c / b) * 0.5));
	elseif (b <= 2.4e-25)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(sqrt(Float64(-3.0 * Float64(a * c))) - b) / Float64(a * 3.0));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(c / b) * -0.5);
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= -1.75e-31)
		tmp = (-0.6666666666666666 * (b / a)) + ((c / b) * 0.5);
	elseif (b <= 2.4e-25)
		tmp = (sqrt((-3.0 * (a * c))) - b) / (a * 3.0);
	else
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -1.75e-31], N[(N[(-0.6666666666666666 * N[(b / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[(N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] * 0.5), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 2.4e-25], N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(-3.0 * N[(a * c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] * -0.5), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -1.74999999999999993e-31

   1. Initial program 68.7%

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

      1. neg-sub0 68.7%

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

      2. sqr-neg 68.7%

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

      3. associate-+l- 68.7%

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

      4. sub0-neg 68.7%

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

      5. sub-neg 68.7%

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

      6. distribute-neg-in 68.7%

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

      7. remove-double-neg 68.7%

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

      8. sqr-neg 68.7%

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

      9. associate-*l* 68.7%

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

   3. Simplified 68.7%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 93.9%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{{b}^{2}} + 0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right)\right)} \]

   6. Taylor expanded in c around 0 94.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a} + 0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]

   if -1.74999999999999993e-31 < b < 2.40000000000000009e-25

   1. Initial program 69.5%

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

      1. neg-sub0 69.5%

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

      2. sqr-neg 69.5%

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

      3. associate-+l- 69.5%

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

      4. sub0-neg 69.5%

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

      5. sub-neg 69.5%

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

      6. distribute-neg-in 69.5%

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

      7. remove-double-neg 69.5%

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

      8. sqr-neg 69.5%

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

      9. associate-*l* 69.5%

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

   3. Simplified 69.5%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around 0 61.3%

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

   if 2.40000000000000009e-25 < b

   1. Initial program 13.1%

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

      1. neg-sub0 13.1%

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

      2. sqr-neg 13.1%

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

      3. associate-+l- 13.1%

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

      4. sub0-neg 13.1%

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

      5. sub-neg 13.1%

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

      6. distribute-neg-in 13.1%

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

      7. remove-double-neg 13.1%

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

      8. sqr-neg 13.1%

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

      9. associate-*l* 13.1%

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

   3. Simplified 13.1%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around inf 95.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 95.0%

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

   7. Simplified 95.0%

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

4. Final simplification 82.9%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1.75 \cdot 10^{-31}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a} + \frac{c}{b} \cdot 0.5\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 2.4 \cdot 10^{-25}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{-3 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} \cdot -0.5\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 5: 67.9% accurate, 7.2× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -5 \cdot 10^{-310}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a} + \frac{c}{b} \cdot 0.5\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} \cdot -0.5\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -5e-310)
   (+ (* -0.6666666666666666 (/ b a)) (* (/ c b) 0.5))
   (* (/ c b) -0.5)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -5e-310) {
		tmp = (-0.6666666666666666 * (b / a)) + ((c / b) * 0.5);
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5;
	}
	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 = ((-0.6666666666666666d0) * (b / a)) + ((c / b) * 0.5d0)
    else
        tmp = (c / b) * (-0.5d0)
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -5e-310) {
		tmp = (-0.6666666666666666 * (b / a)) + ((c / b) * 0.5);
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -5e-310:
		tmp = (-0.6666666666666666 * (b / a)) + ((c / b) * 0.5)
	else:
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -5e-310)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-0.6666666666666666 * Float64(b / a)) + Float64(Float64(c / b) * 0.5));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(c / b) * -0.5);
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= -5e-310)
		tmp = (-0.6666666666666666 * (b / a)) + ((c / b) * 0.5);
	else
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -5e-310], N[(N[(-0.6666666666666666 * N[(b / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[(N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] * 0.5), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] * -0.5), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < -4.999999999999985e-310

   1. Initial program 73.0%

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

      1. neg-sub0 73.0%

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

      2. sqr-neg 73.0%

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

      3. associate-+l- 73.0%

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

      4. sub0-neg 73.0%

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

      5. sub-neg 73.0%

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

      6. distribute-neg-in 73.0%

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

      7. remove-double-neg 73.0%

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

      8. sqr-neg 73.0%

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

      9. associate-*l* 73.0%

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

   3. Simplified 73.0%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 68.4%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{{b}^{2}} + 0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right)\right)} \]

   6. Taylor expanded in c around 0 69.7%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a} + 0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]

   if -4.999999999999985e-310 < b

   1. Initial program 28.5%

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

      1. neg-sub0 28.5%

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

      2. sqr-neg 28.5%

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

      3. associate-+l- 28.5%

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

      4. sub0-neg 28.5%

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

      5. sub-neg 28.5%

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

      6. distribute-neg-in 28.5%

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

      7. remove-double-neg 28.5%

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

      8. sqr-neg 28.5%

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

      9. associate-*l* 28.5%

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

   3. Simplified 28.5%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around inf 71.4%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 71.4%

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

   7. Simplified 71.4%

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

4. Final simplification 70.5%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -5 \cdot 10^{-310}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a} + \frac{c}{b} \cdot 0.5\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} \cdot -0.5\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 6: 67.7% accurate, 9.7× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -5 \cdot 10^{-310}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{a \cdot \frac{-1.5}{b}}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} \cdot -0.5\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -5e-310) (/ 1.0 (* a (/ -1.5 b))) (* (/ c b) -0.5)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -5e-310) {
		tmp = 1.0 / (a * (-1.5 / b));
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5;
	}
	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 = 1.0d0 / (a * ((-1.5d0) / b))
    else
        tmp = (c / b) * (-0.5d0)
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -5e-310) {
		tmp = 1.0 / (a * (-1.5 / b));
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -5e-310:
		tmp = 1.0 / (a * (-1.5 / b))
	else:
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -5e-310)
		tmp = Float64(1.0 / Float64(a * Float64(-1.5 / b)));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(c / b) * -0.5);
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= -5e-310)
		tmp = 1.0 / (a * (-1.5 / b));
	else
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -5e-310], N[(1.0 / N[(a * N[(-1.5 / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] * -0.5), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < -4.999999999999985e-310

   1. Initial program 73.0%

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

      1. neg-sub0 73.0%

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

      2. sqr-neg 73.0%

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

      3. associate-+l- 73.0%

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

      4. sub0-neg 73.0%

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

      5. sub-neg 73.0%

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

      6. distribute-neg-in 73.0%

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

      7. remove-double-neg 73.0%

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

      8. sqr-neg 73.0%

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

      9. associate-*l* 73.0%

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

   3. Simplified 73.0%

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

   6. Applied egg-rr 66.7%

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

      1. associate-*r/ 66.7%

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

      2. sub-div 66.6%

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

      3. div-inv 66.6%

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

      4. metadata-eval 66.6%

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

   8. Applied egg-rr 66.6%

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

      1. clear-num 66.6%

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

      2. inv-pow 66.6%

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

      3. *-un-lft-identity 66.6%

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

      4. distribute-rgt-out-- 66.6%

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

      5. times-frac 66.5%

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

      6. metadata-eval 66.5%

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

   10. Applied egg-rr 66.5%

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

       1. unpow-1 66.5%

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

       2. associate-*r/ 66.7%

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

       3. *-commutative 66.7%

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

   12. Simplified 66.7%

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

   13. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 69.3%

       \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{-1.5 \cdot \frac{a}{b}}} \]
   14. Step-by-step derivation

       1. metadata-eval 69.3%

          \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{-1.5}{1}} \cdot \frac{a}{b}} \]

       2. times-frac 69.4%

          \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{-1.5 \cdot a}{1 \cdot b}}} \]

       3. *-commutative 69.4%

          \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{\color{blue}{a \cdot -1.5}}{1 \cdot b}} \]

       4. times-frac 69.4%

          \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{a}{1} \cdot \frac{-1.5}{b}}} \]

       5. /-rgt-identity 69.4%

          \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{a} \cdot \frac{-1.5}{b}} \]

   15. Simplified 69.4%

       \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{a \cdot \frac{-1.5}{b}}} \]

   if -4.999999999999985e-310 < b

   1. Initial program 28.5%

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

      1. neg-sub0 28.5%

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

      2. sqr-neg 28.5%

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

      3. associate-+l- 28.5%

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

      4. sub0-neg 28.5%

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

      5. sub-neg 28.5%

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

      6. distribute-neg-in 28.5%

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

      7. remove-double-neg 28.5%

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

      8. sqr-neg 28.5%

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

      9. associate-*l* 28.5%

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

   3. Simplified 28.5%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around inf 71.4%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 71.4%

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

   7. Simplified 71.4%

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

Alternative 7: 67.7% accurate, 11.6× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -5 \cdot 10^{-310}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b}{a \cdot -1.5}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} \cdot -0.5\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -5e-310) (/ b (* a -1.5)) (* (/ c b) -0.5)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -5e-310) {
		tmp = b / (a * -1.5);
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5;
	}
	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 = b / (a * (-1.5d0))
    else
        tmp = (c / b) * (-0.5d0)
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -5e-310) {
		tmp = b / (a * -1.5);
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -5e-310:
		tmp = b / (a * -1.5)
	else:
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -5e-310)
		tmp = Float64(b / Float64(a * -1.5));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(c / b) * -0.5);
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= -5e-310)
		tmp = b / (a * -1.5);
	else
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -5e-310], N[(b / N[(a * -1.5), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] * -0.5), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < -4.999999999999985e-310

   1. Initial program 73.0%

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

      1. neg-sub0 73.0%

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

      2. sqr-neg 73.0%

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

      3. associate-+l- 73.0%

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

      4. sub0-neg 73.0%

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

      5. sub-neg 73.0%

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

      6. distribute-neg-in 73.0%

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

      7. remove-double-neg 73.0%

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

      8. sqr-neg 73.0%

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

      9. associate-*l* 73.0%

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

   3. Simplified 73.0%

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

   6. Applied egg-rr 66.6%

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

   7. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 69.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a}} \]
   8. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 69.3%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{a} \cdot -0.6666666666666666} \]

      2. associate-*l/ 69.3%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b \cdot -0.6666666666666666}{a}} \]

      3. associate-/l* 69.3%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{-0.6666666666666666}{a}} \]

   9. Simplified 69.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{-0.6666666666666666}{a}} \]
   10. Step-by-step derivation

       1. clear-num 69.3%

          \[\leadsto b \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{1}{\frac{a}{-0.6666666666666666}}} \]

       2. un-div-inv 69.4%

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{\frac{a}{-0.6666666666666666}}} \]

       3. div-inv 69.4%

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{\color{blue}{a \cdot \frac{1}{-0.6666666666666666}}} \]

       4. metadata-eval 69.4%

          \[\leadsto \frac{b}{a \cdot \color{blue}{-1.5}} \]

   11. Applied egg-rr 69.4%

       \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{a \cdot -1.5}} \]

   if -4.999999999999985e-310 < b

   1. Initial program 28.5%

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

      1. neg-sub0 28.5%

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

      2. sqr-neg 28.5%

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

      3. associate-+l- 28.5%

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

      4. sub0-neg 28.5%

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

      5. sub-neg 28.5%

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

      6. distribute-neg-in 28.5%

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

      7. remove-double-neg 28.5%

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

      8. sqr-neg 28.5%

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

      9. associate-*l* 28.5%

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

   3. Simplified 28.5%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around inf 71.4%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 71.4%

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

   7. Simplified 71.4%

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

Alternative 8: 67.7% accurate, 11.6× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -5 \cdot 10^{-310}:\\ \;\;\;\;b \cdot \frac{-0.6666666666666666}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} \cdot -0.5\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -5e-310) (* b (/ -0.6666666666666666 a)) (* (/ c b) -0.5)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -5e-310) {
		tmp = b * (-0.6666666666666666 / a);
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5;
	}
	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 = b * ((-0.6666666666666666d0) / a)
    else
        tmp = (c / b) * (-0.5d0)
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -5e-310) {
		tmp = b * (-0.6666666666666666 / a);
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -5e-310:
		tmp = b * (-0.6666666666666666 / a)
	else:
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -5e-310)
		tmp = Float64(b * Float64(-0.6666666666666666 / a));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(c / b) * -0.5);
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= -5e-310)
		tmp = b * (-0.6666666666666666 / a);
	else
		tmp = (c / b) * -0.5;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -5e-310], N[(b * N[(-0.6666666666666666 / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] * -0.5), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < -4.999999999999985e-310

   1. Initial program 73.0%

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

      1. neg-sub0 73.0%

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

      2. sqr-neg 73.0%

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

      3. associate-+l- 73.0%

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

      4. sub0-neg 73.0%

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

      5. sub-neg 73.0%

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

      6. distribute-neg-in 73.0%

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

      7. remove-double-neg 73.0%

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

      8. sqr-neg 73.0%

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

      9. associate-*l* 73.0%

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

   3. Simplified 73.0%

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

   6. Applied egg-rr 66.6%

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

   7. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 69.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a}} \]
   8. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 69.3%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{a} \cdot -0.6666666666666666} \]

      2. associate-*l/ 69.3%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b \cdot -0.6666666666666666}{a}} \]

      3. associate-/l* 69.3%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{-0.6666666666666666}{a}} \]

   9. Simplified 69.3%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{-0.6666666666666666}{a}} \]

   if -4.999999999999985e-310 < b

   1. Initial program 28.5%

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

      1. neg-sub0 28.5%

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

      2. sqr-neg 28.5%

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

      3. associate-+l- 28.5%

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

      4. sub0-neg 28.5%

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

      5. sub-neg 28.5%

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

      6. distribute-neg-in 28.5%

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

      7. remove-double-neg 28.5%

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

      8. sqr-neg 28.5%

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

      9. associate-*l* 28.5%

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

   3. Simplified 28.5%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around inf 71.4%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
   6. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 71.4%

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

   7. Simplified 71.4%

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

Alternative 9: 42.2% accurate, 11.6× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 0.000125:\\ \;\;\;\;b \cdot \frac{-0.6666666666666666}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} \cdot 0.5\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b 0.000125) (* b (/ -0.6666666666666666 a)) (* (/ c b) 0.5)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 0.000125) {
		tmp = b * (-0.6666666666666666 / a);
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) * 0.5;
	}
	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 <= 0.000125d0) then
        tmp = b * ((-0.6666666666666666d0) / a)
    else
        tmp = (c / b) * 0.5d0
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 0.000125) {
		tmp = b * (-0.6666666666666666 / a);
	} else {
		tmp = (c / b) * 0.5;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= 0.000125:
		tmp = b * (-0.6666666666666666 / a)
	else:
		tmp = (c / b) * 0.5
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= 0.000125)
		tmp = Float64(b * Float64(-0.6666666666666666 / a));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(c / b) * 0.5);
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= 0.000125)
		tmp = b * (-0.6666666666666666 / a);
	else
		tmp = (c / b) * 0.5;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, 0.000125], N[(b * N[(-0.6666666666666666 / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] * 0.5), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < 1.25e-4

   1. Initial program 67.8%

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

      1. neg-sub0 67.8%

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

      2. sqr-neg 67.8%

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

      3. associate-+l- 67.8%

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

      4. sub0-neg 67.8%

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

      5. sub-neg 67.8%

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

      6. distribute-neg-in 67.8%

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

      7. remove-double-neg 67.8%

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

      8. sqr-neg 67.8%

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

      9. associate-*l* 67.8%

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

   3. Simplified 67.8%

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

   6. Applied egg-rr 63.1%

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

   7. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 51.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{b}{a}} \]
   8. Step-by-step derivation

      1. *-commutative 51.0%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b}{a} \cdot -0.6666666666666666} \]

      2. associate-*l/ 51.0%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b \cdot -0.6666666666666666}{a}} \]

      3. associate-/l* 51.0%

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{-0.6666666666666666}{a}} \]

   9. Simplified 51.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{b \cdot \frac{-0.6666666666666666}{a}} \]

   if 1.25e-4 < b

   1. Initial program 12.5%

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

      1. neg-sub0 12.5%

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

      2. sqr-neg 12.5%

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

      3. associate-+l- 12.5%

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

      4. sub0-neg 12.5%

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

      5. sub-neg 12.5%

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

      6. distribute-neg-in 12.5%

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

      7. remove-double-neg 12.5%

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

      8. sqr-neg 12.5%

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

      9. associate-*l* 12.5%

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

   3. Simplified 12.5%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 2.6%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{{b}^{2}} + 0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right)\right)} \]

   6. Taylor expanded in b around 0 34.6%

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

4. Final simplification 46.0%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 0.000125:\\ \;\;\;\;b \cdot \frac{-0.6666666666666666}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} \cdot 0.5\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 10: 10.3% accurate, 23.2× speedup

Math

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

FPCore

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

C

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

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) * 0.5d0
end function

Java

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

Python

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

Julia

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

MATLAB

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

Wolfram

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

Derivation

1. Initial program 50.7%

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

   1. neg-sub0 50.7%

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

   2. sqr-neg 50.7%

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

   3. associate-+l- 50.7%

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

   4. sub0-neg 50.7%

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

   5. sub-neg 50.7%

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

   6. distribute-neg-in 50.7%

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

   7. remove-double-neg 50.7%

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

   8. sqr-neg 50.7%

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

   9. associate-*l* 50.7%

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

3. Simplified 50.7%

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

5. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 35.4%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{{b}^{2}} + 0.6666666666666666 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right)\right)} \]

6. Taylor expanded in b around 0 12.9%

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

7. Final simplification 12.9%

   \[\leadsto \frac{c}{b} \cdot 0.5 \]
8. Add Preprocessing

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2024113 
(FPCore (a b c)
  :name "Cubic critical"
  :precision binary64
  (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 3.0 a) c)))) (* 3.0 a)))