quadp (p42, positive)

Percentage Accurate: 51.4% → 84.7%

Time: 13.8s

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: 51.4% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

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

FPCore

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

C

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

Fortran

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

Java

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

Python

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

Julia

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

MATLAB

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

Wolfram

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

Alternative 1: 84.7% accurate, 0.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -2 \cdot 10^{+124}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b}{-a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 1.02 \cdot 10^{-103}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)} - b}{a \cdot 2}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -2e+124)
   (/ b (- a))
   (if (<= b 1.02e-103)
     (/ (- (sqrt (- (* b b) (* 4.0 (* a c)))) b) (* a 2.0))
     (/ (- c) b))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -2e+124) {
		tmp = b / -a;
	} else if (b <= 1.02e-103) {
		tmp = (sqrt(((b * b) - (4.0 * (a * c)))) - b) / (a * 2.0);
	} else {
		tmp = -c / b;
	}
	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+124)) then
        tmp = b / -a
    else if (b <= 1.02d-103) then
        tmp = (sqrt(((b * b) - (4.0d0 * (a * c)))) - b) / (a * 2.0d0)
    else
        tmp = -c / b
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -2e+124) {
		tmp = b / -a;
	} else if (b <= 1.02e-103) {
		tmp = (Math.sqrt(((b * b) - (4.0 * (a * c)))) - b) / (a * 2.0);
	} else {
		tmp = -c / b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -2e+124:
		tmp = b / -a
	elif b <= 1.02e-103:
		tmp = (math.sqrt(((b * b) - (4.0 * (a * c)))) - b) / (a * 2.0)
	else:
		tmp = -c / b
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -2e+124)
		tmp = Float64(b / Float64(-a));
	elseif (b <= 1.02e-103)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(4.0 * Float64(a * c)))) - b) / Float64(a * 2.0));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-c) / b);
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= -2e+124)
		tmp = b / -a;
	elseif (b <= 1.02e-103)
		tmp = (sqrt(((b * b) - (4.0 * (a * c)))) - b) / (a * 2.0);
	else
		tmp = -c / b;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -2e+124], N[(b / (-a)), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 1.02e-103], N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(4.0 * N[(a * c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * 2.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -1.9999999999999999e124

   1. Initial program 54.3%

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

      1. *-commutative 54.3%

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

      2. +-commutative 54.3%

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

      3. unsub-neg 54.3%

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

      4. fmm-def 54.3%

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

      5. *-commutative 54.3%

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

      6. associate-*r* 54.3%

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

      7. distribute-lft-neg-in 54.3%

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

      8. *-commutative 54.3%

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

      9. distribute-rgt-neg-in 54.3%

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

      10. associate-*r* 54.3%

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

      11. metadata-eval 54.3%

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

   3. Simplified 54.3%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 96.4%

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

      1. associate-*r/ 96.4%

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

      2. mul-1-neg 96.4%

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

   7. Simplified 96.4%

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

   if -1.9999999999999999e124 < b < 1.01999999999999998e-103

   1. Initial program 79.2%

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

   if 1.01999999999999998e-103 < b

   1. Initial program 16.6%

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

      1. *-commutative 16.6%

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

      2. +-commutative 16.6%

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

      3. unsub-neg 16.6%

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

      4. fmm-def 16.6%

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

      5. *-commutative 16.6%

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

      6. associate-*r* 16.6%

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

      7. distribute-lft-neg-in 16.6%

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

      8. *-commutative 16.6%

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

      9. distribute-rgt-neg-in 16.6%

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

      10. associate-*r* 16.6%

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

      11. metadata-eval 16.6%

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

   3. Simplified 16.6%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around inf 91.1%

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

      1. mul-1-neg 91.1%

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

      2. distribute-neg-frac2 91.1%

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

   7. Simplified 91.1%

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

4. Final simplification 87.2%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -2 \cdot 10^{+124}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b}{-a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 1.02 \cdot 10^{-103}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - 4 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)} - b}{a \cdot 2}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 2: 79.8% accurate, 0.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -4.6 \cdot 10^{-78}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b}{-a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 1.15 \cdot 10^{-103}:\\ \;\;\;\;0.5 \cdot \left(\frac{\sqrt{\left(a \cdot c\right) \cdot -4}}{a} - \frac{b}{a}\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -4.6e-78)
   (/ b (- a))
   (if (<= b 1.15e-103)
     (* 0.5 (- (/ (sqrt (* (* a c) -4.0)) a) (/ b a)))
     (/ (- c) b))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -4.6e-78) {
		tmp = b / -a;
	} else if (b <= 1.15e-103) {
		tmp = 0.5 * ((sqrt(((a * c) * -4.0)) / a) - (b / a));
	} else {
		tmp = -c / b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b, c)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8), intent (in) :: c
    real(8) :: tmp
    if (b <= (-4.6d-78)) then
        tmp = b / -a
    else if (b <= 1.15d-103) then
        tmp = 0.5d0 * ((sqrt(((a * c) * (-4.0d0))) / a) - (b / a))
    else
        tmp = -c / b
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -4.6e-78) {
		tmp = b / -a;
	} else if (b <= 1.15e-103) {
		tmp = 0.5 * ((Math.sqrt(((a * c) * -4.0)) / a) - (b / a));
	} else {
		tmp = -c / b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -4.6e-78:
		tmp = b / -a
	elif b <= 1.15e-103:
		tmp = 0.5 * ((math.sqrt(((a * c) * -4.0)) / a) - (b / a))
	else:
		tmp = -c / b
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -4.6e-78)
		tmp = Float64(b / Float64(-a));
	elseif (b <= 1.15e-103)
		tmp = Float64(0.5 * Float64(Float64(sqrt(Float64(Float64(a * c) * -4.0)) / a) - Float64(b / a)));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-c) / b);
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= -4.6e-78)
		tmp = b / -a;
	elseif (b <= 1.15e-103)
		tmp = 0.5 * ((sqrt(((a * c) * -4.0)) / a) - (b / a));
	else
		tmp = -c / b;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -4.6e-78], N[(b / (-a)), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 1.15e-103], N[(0.5 * N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(N[(a * c), $MachinePrecision] * -4.0), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision] - N[(b / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -4.6000000000000004e-78

   1. Initial program 69.8%

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

      1. *-commutative 69.8%

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

      2. +-commutative 69.8%

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

      3. unsub-neg 69.8%

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

      4. fmm-def 69.8%

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

      5. *-commutative 69.8%

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

      6. associate-*r* 69.8%

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

      7. distribute-lft-neg-in 69.8%

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

      8. *-commutative 69.8%

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

      9. distribute-rgt-neg-in 69.8%

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

      10. associate-*r* 69.8%

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

      11. metadata-eval 69.8%

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

   3. Simplified 69.8%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 85.3%

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

      1. associate-*r/ 85.3%

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

      2. mul-1-neg 85.3%

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

   7. Simplified 85.3%

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

   if -4.6000000000000004e-78 < b < 1.15e-103

   1. Initial program 72.9%

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

      1. *-commutative 72.9%

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

      2. +-commutative 72.9%

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

      3. unsub-neg 72.9%

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

      4. fmm-def 72.9%

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

      5. *-commutative 72.9%

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

      6. associate-*r* 72.9%

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

      7. distribute-lft-neg-in 72.9%

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

      8. *-commutative 72.9%

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

      9. distribute-rgt-neg-in 72.9%

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

      10. associate-*r* 72.9%

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

      11. metadata-eval 72.9%

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

   3. Simplified 72.9%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around 0 63.3%

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

      1. *-commutative 63.3%

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

      2. associate-*r* 63.3%

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

   7. Simplified 63.3%

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

      1. add-sqr-sqrt 62.7%

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

      2. pow2 62.7%

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

      3. pow1/2 62.7%

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

      4. sqrt-pow1 62.7%

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

      5. metadata-eval 62.7%

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

   9. Applied egg-rr 62.7%

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

       1. pow-pow 63.3%

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

       2. metadata-eval 63.3%

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

       3. pow1/2 63.3%

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

       4. sub-div 63.3%

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

       5. *-un-lft-identity 63.3%

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

       6. *-commutative 63.3%

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

       7. times-frac 63.3%

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

       8. metadata-eval 63.3%

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

       9. *-un-lft-identity 63.3%

          \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \frac{\sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)}}{a} - \frac{\color{blue}{1 \cdot b}}{a \cdot 2} \]

       10. *-commutative 63.3%

           \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \frac{\sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)}}{a} - \frac{1 \cdot b}{\color{blue}{2 \cdot a}} \]

       11. times-frac 63.3%

           \[\leadsto 0.5 \cdot \frac{\sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)}}{a} - \color{blue}{\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{b}{a}} \]

       12. metadata-eval 63.3%

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

   11. Applied egg-rr 63.3%

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

       1. distribute-lft-out-- 63.3%

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

       2. associate-*r* 63.3%

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

       3. *-commutative 63.3%

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

   13. Simplified 63.3%

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

   if 1.15e-103 < b

   1. Initial program 16.6%

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

      1. *-commutative 16.6%

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

      2. +-commutative 16.6%

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

      3. unsub-neg 16.6%

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

      4. fmm-def 16.6%

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

      5. *-commutative 16.6%

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

      6. associate-*r* 16.6%

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

      7. distribute-lft-neg-in 16.6%

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

      8. *-commutative 16.6%

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

      9. distribute-rgt-neg-in 16.6%

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

      10. associate-*r* 16.6%

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

      11. metadata-eval 16.6%

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

   3. Simplified 16.6%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around inf 91.1%

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

      1. mul-1-neg 91.1%

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

      2. distribute-neg-frac2 91.1%

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

   7. Simplified 91.1%

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

4. Final simplification 82.0%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -4.6 \cdot 10^{-78}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b}{-a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 1.15 \cdot 10^{-103}:\\ \;\;\;\;0.5 \cdot \left(\frac{\sqrt{\left(a \cdot c\right) \cdot -4}}{a} - \frac{b}{a}\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 3: 79.7% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -6 \cdot 10^{-79}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b}{-a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 1.4 \cdot 10^{-103}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)} - b}{a \cdot 2}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -6e-79)
   (/ b (- a))
   (if (<= b 1.4e-103)
     (/ (- (sqrt (* a (* c -4.0))) b) (* a 2.0))
     (/ (- c) b))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -6e-79) {
		tmp = b / -a;
	} else if (b <= 1.4e-103) {
		tmp = (sqrt((a * (c * -4.0))) - b) / (a * 2.0);
	} else {
		tmp = -c / b;
	}
	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 <= (-6d-79)) then
        tmp = b / -a
    else if (b <= 1.4d-103) then
        tmp = (sqrt((a * (c * (-4.0d0)))) - b) / (a * 2.0d0)
    else
        tmp = -c / b
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -6e-79) {
		tmp = b / -a;
	} else if (b <= 1.4e-103) {
		tmp = (Math.sqrt((a * (c * -4.0))) - b) / (a * 2.0);
	} else {
		tmp = -c / b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -6e-79:
		tmp = b / -a
	elif b <= 1.4e-103:
		tmp = (math.sqrt((a * (c * -4.0))) - b) / (a * 2.0)
	else:
		tmp = -c / b
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -6e-79)
		tmp = Float64(b / Float64(-a));
	elseif (b <= 1.4e-103)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(sqrt(Float64(a * Float64(c * -4.0))) - b) / Float64(a * 2.0));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-c) / b);
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= -6e-79)
		tmp = b / -a;
	elseif (b <= 1.4e-103)
		tmp = (sqrt((a * (c * -4.0))) - b) / (a * 2.0);
	else
		tmp = -c / b;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -6e-79], N[(b / (-a)), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 1.4e-103], N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(a * N[(c * -4.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * 2.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -5.99999999999999999e-79

   1. Initial program 69.8%

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

      1. *-commutative 69.8%

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

      2. +-commutative 69.8%

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

      3. unsub-neg 69.8%

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

      4. fmm-def 69.8%

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

      5. *-commutative 69.8%

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

      6. associate-*r* 69.8%

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

      7. distribute-lft-neg-in 69.8%

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

      8. *-commutative 69.8%

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

      9. distribute-rgt-neg-in 69.8%

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

      10. associate-*r* 69.8%

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

      11. metadata-eval 69.8%

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

   3. Simplified 69.8%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 85.3%

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

      1. associate-*r/ 85.3%

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

      2. mul-1-neg 85.3%

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

   7. Simplified 85.3%

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

   if -5.99999999999999999e-79 < b < 1.40000000000000011e-103

   1. Initial program 72.9%

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

      1. *-commutative 72.9%

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

      2. +-commutative 72.9%

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

      3. unsub-neg 72.9%

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

      4. fmm-def 72.9%

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

      5. *-commutative 72.9%

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

      6. associate-*r* 72.9%

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

      7. distribute-lft-neg-in 72.9%

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

      8. *-commutative 72.9%

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

      9. distribute-rgt-neg-in 72.9%

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

      10. associate-*r* 72.9%

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

      11. metadata-eval 72.9%

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

   3. Simplified 72.9%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around 0 63.3%

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

      1. *-commutative 63.3%

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

      2. associate-*r* 63.3%

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

   7. Simplified 63.3%

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

   if 1.40000000000000011e-103 < b

   1. Initial program 16.6%

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

      1. *-commutative 16.6%

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

      2. +-commutative 16.6%

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

      3. unsub-neg 16.6%

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

      4. fmm-def 16.6%

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

      5. *-commutative 16.6%

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

      6. associate-*r* 16.6%

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

      7. distribute-lft-neg-in 16.6%

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

      8. *-commutative 16.6%

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

      9. distribute-rgt-neg-in 16.6%

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

      10. associate-*r* 16.6%

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

      11. metadata-eval 16.6%

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

   3. Simplified 16.6%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around inf 91.1%

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

      1. mul-1-neg 91.1%

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

      2. distribute-neg-frac2 91.1%

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

   7. Simplified 91.1%

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

4. Final simplification 82.0%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -6 \cdot 10^{-79}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b}{-a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 1.4 \cdot 10^{-103}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)} - b}{a \cdot 2}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 4: 79.7% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -3.8 \cdot 10^{-79}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b}{-a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 4.4 \cdot 10^{-104}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(\sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)} - b\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -3.8e-79)
   (/ b (- a))
   (if (<= b 4.4e-104)
     (* (/ 0.5 a) (- (sqrt (* a (* c -4.0))) b))
     (/ (- c) b))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -3.8e-79) {
		tmp = b / -a;
	} else if (b <= 4.4e-104) {
		tmp = (0.5 / a) * (sqrt((a * (c * -4.0))) - b);
	} else {
		tmp = -c / b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b, c)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8), intent (in) :: c
    real(8) :: tmp
    if (b <= (-3.8d-79)) then
        tmp = b / -a
    else if (b <= 4.4d-104) then
        tmp = (0.5d0 / a) * (sqrt((a * (c * (-4.0d0)))) - b)
    else
        tmp = -c / b
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -3.8e-79) {
		tmp = b / -a;
	} else if (b <= 4.4e-104) {
		tmp = (0.5 / a) * (Math.sqrt((a * (c * -4.0))) - b);
	} else {
		tmp = -c / b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -3.8e-79:
		tmp = b / -a
	elif b <= 4.4e-104:
		tmp = (0.5 / a) * (math.sqrt((a * (c * -4.0))) - b)
	else:
		tmp = -c / b
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -3.8e-79)
		tmp = Float64(b / Float64(-a));
	elseif (b <= 4.4e-104)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(0.5 / a) * Float64(sqrt(Float64(a * Float64(c * -4.0))) - b));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-c) / b);
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= -3.8e-79)
		tmp = b / -a;
	elseif (b <= 4.4e-104)
		tmp = (0.5 / a) * (sqrt((a * (c * -4.0))) - b);
	else
		tmp = -c / b;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -3.8e-79], N[(b / (-a)), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 4.4e-104], N[(N[(0.5 / a), $MachinePrecision] * N[(N[Sqrt[N[(a * N[(c * -4.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -3.8000000000000001e-79

   1. Initial program 69.8%

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

      1. *-commutative 69.8%

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

      2. +-commutative 69.8%

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

      3. unsub-neg 69.8%

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

      4. fmm-def 69.8%

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

      5. *-commutative 69.8%

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

      6. associate-*r* 69.8%

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

      7. distribute-lft-neg-in 69.8%

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

      8. *-commutative 69.8%

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

      9. distribute-rgt-neg-in 69.8%

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

      10. associate-*r* 69.8%

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

      11. metadata-eval 69.8%

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

   3. Simplified 69.8%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 85.3%

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

      1. associate-*r/ 85.3%

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

      2. mul-1-neg 85.3%

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

   7. Simplified 85.3%

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

   if -3.8000000000000001e-79 < b < 4.40000000000000023e-104

   1. Initial program 72.9%

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

      1. *-commutative 72.9%

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

      2. +-commutative 72.9%

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

      3. unsub-neg 72.9%

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

      4. fmm-def 72.9%

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

      5. *-commutative 72.9%

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

      6. associate-*r* 72.9%

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

      7. distribute-lft-neg-in 72.9%

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

      8. *-commutative 72.9%

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

      9. distribute-rgt-neg-in 72.9%

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

      10. associate-*r* 72.9%

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

      11. metadata-eval 72.9%

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

   3. Simplified 72.9%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around 0 63.3%

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

      1. *-commutative 63.3%

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

      2. associate-*r* 63.3%

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

   7. Simplified 63.3%

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

      1. div-inv 63.2%

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

   9. Applied egg-rr 63.2%

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

       1. *-commutative 63.2%

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

       2. sub-neg 63.2%

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

       3. distribute-lft-in 63.2%

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

       4. inv-pow 63.2%

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

       5. *-commutative 63.2%

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

       6. unpow-prod-down 63.2%

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

       7. metadata-eval 63.2%

          \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{0.5} \cdot {a}^{-1}\right) \cdot \sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)} + \frac{1}{a \cdot 2} \cdot \left(-b\right) \]

       8. inv-pow 63.2%

          \[\leadsto \left(0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{1}{a}}\right) \cdot \sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)} + \frac{1}{a \cdot 2} \cdot \left(-b\right) \]

       9. inv-pow 63.2%

          \[\leadsto \left(0.5 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right) \cdot \sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)} + \color{blue}{{\left(a \cdot 2\right)}^{-1}} \cdot \left(-b\right) \]

       10. *-commutative 63.2%

           \[\leadsto \left(0.5 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right) \cdot \sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)} + {\color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot a\right)}}^{-1} \cdot \left(-b\right) \]

       11. unpow-prod-down 63.2%

           \[\leadsto \left(0.5 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right) \cdot \sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)} + \color{blue}{\left({2}^{-1} \cdot {a}^{-1}\right)} \cdot \left(-b\right) \]

       12. metadata-eval 63.2%

           \[\leadsto \left(0.5 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right) \cdot \sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)} + \left(\color{blue}{0.5} \cdot {a}^{-1}\right) \cdot \left(-b\right) \]

       13. inv-pow 63.2%

           \[\leadsto \left(0.5 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right) \cdot \sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)} + \left(0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{1}{a}}\right) \cdot \left(-b\right) \]

   11. Applied egg-rr 63.2%

       \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(0.5 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right) \cdot \sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)} + \left(0.5 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right) \cdot \left(-b\right)} \]
   12. Step-by-step derivation

       1. distribute-lft-out 63.2%

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(0.5 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right) \cdot \left(\sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)} + \left(-b\right)\right)} \]

       2. associate-*r/ 63.2%

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{0.5 \cdot 1}{a}} \cdot \left(\sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)} + \left(-b\right)\right) \]

       3. metadata-eval 63.2%

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

       4. sub-neg 63.2%

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

       5. *-commutative 63.2%

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

   13. Simplified 63.2%

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

   if 4.40000000000000023e-104 < b

   1. Initial program 16.6%

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

      1. *-commutative 16.6%

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

      2. +-commutative 16.6%

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

      3. unsub-neg 16.6%

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

      4. fmm-def 16.6%

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

      5. *-commutative 16.6%

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

      6. associate-*r* 16.6%

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

      7. distribute-lft-neg-in 16.6%

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

      8. *-commutative 16.6%

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

      9. distribute-rgt-neg-in 16.6%

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

      10. associate-*r* 16.6%

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

      11. metadata-eval 16.6%

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

   3. Simplified 16.6%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around inf 91.1%

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

      1. mul-1-neg 91.1%

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

      2. distribute-neg-frac2 91.1%

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

   7. Simplified 91.1%

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

4. Final simplification 82.0%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -3.8 \cdot 10^{-79}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b}{-a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 4.4 \cdot 10^{-104}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(\sqrt{a \cdot \left(c \cdot -4\right)} - b\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 5: 70.7% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -4.3 \cdot 10^{-241}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b}{-a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 1.5 \cdot 10^{-105}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \left(-\sqrt{\frac{c \cdot -4}{a}}\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -4.3e-241)
   (/ b (- a))
   (if (<= b 1.5e-105) (* -0.5 (- (sqrt (/ (* c -4.0) a)))) (/ (- c) b))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -4.3e-241) {
		tmp = b / -a;
	} else if (b <= 1.5e-105) {
		tmp = -0.5 * -sqrt(((c * -4.0) / a));
	} else {
		tmp = -c / b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b, c)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8), intent (in) :: c
    real(8) :: tmp
    if (b <= (-4.3d-241)) then
        tmp = b / -a
    else if (b <= 1.5d-105) then
        tmp = (-0.5d0) * -sqrt(((c * (-4.0d0)) / a))
    else
        tmp = -c / b
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -4.3e-241) {
		tmp = b / -a;
	} else if (b <= 1.5e-105) {
		tmp = -0.5 * -Math.sqrt(((c * -4.0) / a));
	} else {
		tmp = -c / b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -4.3e-241:
		tmp = b / -a
	elif b <= 1.5e-105:
		tmp = -0.5 * -math.sqrt(((c * -4.0) / a))
	else:
		tmp = -c / b
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -4.3e-241)
		tmp = Float64(b / Float64(-a));
	elseif (b <= 1.5e-105)
		tmp = Float64(-0.5 * Float64(-sqrt(Float64(Float64(c * -4.0) / a))));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-c) / b);
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= -4.3e-241)
		tmp = b / -a;
	elseif (b <= 1.5e-105)
		tmp = -0.5 * -sqrt(((c * -4.0) / a));
	else
		tmp = -c / b;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -4.3e-241], N[(b / (-a)), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 1.5e-105], N[(-0.5 * (-N[Sqrt[N[(N[(c * -4.0), $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision])), $MachinePrecision], N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -4.2999999999999999e-241

   1. Initial program 73.3%

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

      1. *-commutative 73.3%

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

      2. +-commutative 73.3%

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

      3. unsub-neg 73.3%

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

      4. fmm-def 73.3%

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

      5. *-commutative 73.3%

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

      6. associate-*r* 73.3%

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

      7. distribute-lft-neg-in 73.3%

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

      8. *-commutative 73.3%

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

      9. distribute-rgt-neg-in 73.3%

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

      10. associate-*r* 73.3%

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

      11. metadata-eval 73.3%

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

   3. Simplified 73.3%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 74.3%

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

      1. associate-*r/ 74.3%

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

      2. mul-1-neg 74.3%

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

   7. Simplified 74.3%

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

   if -4.2999999999999999e-241 < b < 1.5e-105

   1. Initial program 63.9%

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

      1. *-commutative 63.9%

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

   3. Simplified 63.9%

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

      1. add-cube-cbrt 63.1%

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

      2. pow3 63.1%

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

      3. *-commutative 63.1%

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

      4. associate-*l* 63.1%

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

   6. Applied egg-rr 63.1%

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

   7. Taylor expanded in a around -inf 0.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \left(\sqrt{\frac{c \cdot {\left(\sqrt[3]{-4}\right)}^{3}}{a}} \cdot {\left(\sqrt{-1}\right)}^{2}\right)} \]
   8. Step-by-step derivation

      1. rem-cube-cbrt 0.0%

         \[\leadsto -0.5 \cdot \left(\sqrt{\frac{c \cdot \color{blue}{-4}}{a}} \cdot {\left(\sqrt{-1}\right)}^{2}\right) \]

      2. unpow2 0.0%

         \[\leadsto -0.5 \cdot \left(\sqrt{\frac{c \cdot -4}{a}} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\sqrt{-1} \cdot \sqrt{-1}\right)}\right) \]

      3. rem-square-sqrt 57.2%

         \[\leadsto -0.5 \cdot \left(\sqrt{\frac{c \cdot -4}{a}} \cdot \color{blue}{-1}\right) \]

   9. Simplified 57.2%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \left(\sqrt{\frac{c \cdot -4}{a}} \cdot -1\right)} \]

   if 1.5e-105 < b

   1. Initial program 16.6%

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

      1. *-commutative 16.6%

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

      2. +-commutative 16.6%

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

      3. unsub-neg 16.6%

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

      4. fmm-def 16.6%

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

      5. *-commutative 16.6%

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

      6. associate-*r* 16.6%

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

      7. distribute-lft-neg-in 16.6%

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

      8. *-commutative 16.6%

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

      9. distribute-rgt-neg-in 16.6%

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

      10. associate-*r* 16.6%

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

      11. metadata-eval 16.6%

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

   3. Simplified 16.6%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around inf 91.1%

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

      1. mul-1-neg 91.1%

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

      2. distribute-neg-frac2 91.1%

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

   7. Simplified 91.1%

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

4. Final simplification 78.1%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -4.3 \cdot 10^{-241}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b}{-a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 1.5 \cdot 10^{-105}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \left(-\sqrt{\frac{c \cdot -4}{a}}\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 6: 67.6% accurate, 12.9× speedup

Math

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

FPCore

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

C

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

Java

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

Python

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

Julia

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

MATLAB

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

Wolfram

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

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < -1.999999999999994e-310

   1. Initial program 71.3%

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

      1. *-commutative 71.3%

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

      2. +-commutative 71.3%

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

      3. unsub-neg 71.3%

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

      4. fmm-def 71.3%

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

      5. *-commutative 71.3%

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

      6. associate-*r* 71.3%

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

      7. distribute-lft-neg-in 71.3%

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

      8. *-commutative 71.3%

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

      9. distribute-rgt-neg-in 71.3%

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

      10. associate-*r* 71.3%

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

      11. metadata-eval 71.3%

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

   3. Simplified 71.3%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 69.9%

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

      1. associate-*r/ 69.9%

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

      2. mul-1-neg 69.9%

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

   7. Simplified 69.9%

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

   if -1.999999999999994e-310 < b

   1. Initial program 29.3%

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

      1. *-commutative 29.3%

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

      2. +-commutative 29.3%

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

      3. unsub-neg 29.3%

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

      4. fmm-def 29.3%

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

      5. *-commutative 29.3%

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

      6. associate-*r* 29.3%

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

      7. distribute-lft-neg-in 29.3%

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

      8. *-commutative 29.3%

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

      9. distribute-rgt-neg-in 29.3%

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

      10. associate-*r* 29.3%

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

      11. metadata-eval 29.3%

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

   3. Simplified 29.3%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around inf 73.3%

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

      1. mul-1-neg 73.3%

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

      2. distribute-neg-frac2 73.3%

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

   7. Simplified 73.3%

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

4. Final simplification 71.6%

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

Alternative 7: 35.7% 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(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 50.4%

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

   1. *-commutative 50.4%

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

   2. +-commutative 50.4%

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

   3. unsub-neg 50.4%

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

   4. fmm-def 50.4%

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

   5. *-commutative 50.4%

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

   6. associate-*r* 50.4%

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

   7. distribute-lft-neg-in 50.4%

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

   8. *-commutative 50.4%

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

   9. distribute-rgt-neg-in 50.4%

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

   10. associate-*r* 50.4%

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

   11. metadata-eval 50.4%

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

3. Simplified 50.4%

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

5. Taylor expanded in b around inf 37.5%

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

   1. mul-1-neg 37.5%

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

   2. distribute-neg-frac2 37.5%

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

7. Simplified 37.5%

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

8. Final simplification 37.5%

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

Alternative 8: 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 50.4%

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

   1. *-commutative 50.4%

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

   2. +-commutative 50.4%

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

   3. unsub-neg 50.4%

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

   4. fmm-def 50.4%

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

   5. *-commutative 50.4%

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

   6. associate-*r* 50.4%

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

   7. distribute-lft-neg-in 50.4%

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

   8. *-commutative 50.4%

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

   9. distribute-rgt-neg-in 50.4%

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

   10. associate-*r* 50.4%

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

   11. metadata-eval 50.4%

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

3. Simplified 50.4%

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

5. Taylor expanded in b around -inf 36.5%

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

   1. associate-*r/ 36.5%

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

   2. mul-1-neg 36.5%

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

7. Simplified 36.5%

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

   1. add-sqr-sqrt 35.0%

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

   2. sqrt-unprod 27.5%

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

   3. sqr-neg 27.5%

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

   4. sqrt-unprod 1.9%

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

   5. add-sqr-sqrt 2.5%

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

   6. div-inv 2.5%

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

9. Applied egg-rr 2.5%

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

    1. associate-*r/ 2.5%

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

    2. *-rgt-identity 2.5%

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

11. Simplified 2.5%

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

Developer Target 1: 99.7% accurate, 0.1× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := \left|\frac{b}{2}\right|\\ t_1 := \sqrt{\left|a\right|} \cdot \sqrt{\left|c\right|}\\ t_2 := \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\mathsf{copysign}\left(a, c\right) = a:\\ \;\;\;\;\sqrt{t\_0 - t\_1} \cdot \sqrt{t\_0 + t\_1}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{hypot}\left(\frac{b}{2}, t\_1\right)\\ \end{array}\\ \mathbf{if}\;b < 0:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{t\_2 - \frac{b}{2}}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{\frac{b}{2} + t\_2}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

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) (/ (- t_2 (/ b 2.0)) a) (/ (- c) (+ (/ b 2.0) t_2)))))

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 = (t_2 - (b / 2.0)) / a;
	} else {
		tmp_1 = -c / ((b / 2.0) + t_2);
	}
	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 = (t_2 - (b / 2.0)) / a;
	} else {
		tmp_1 = -c / ((b / 2.0) + t_2);
	}
	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 = (t_2 - (b / 2.0)) / a
	else:
		tmp_1 = -c / ((b / 2.0) + t_2)
	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(Float64(t_2 - Float64(b / 2.0)) / a);
	else
		tmp_1 = Float64(Float64(-c) / Float64(Float64(b / 2.0) + t_2));
	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 = (t_2 - (b / 2.0)) / a;
	else
		tmp_2 = -c / ((b / 2.0) + t_2);
	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[(N[(t$95$2 - N[(b / 2.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision], N[((-c) / N[(N[(b / 2.0), $MachinePrecision] + t$95$2), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]]]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2024185 
(FPCore (a b c)
  :name "quadp (p42, positive)"
  :precision binary64
  :herbie-expected 10

  :alt
  (! :herbie-platform default (let ((sqtD (let ((x (* (sqrt (fabs a)) (sqrt (fabs c))))) (if (== (copysign a c) a) (* (sqrt (- (fabs (/ b 2)) x)) (sqrt (+ (fabs (/ b 2)) x))) (hypot (/ b 2) x))))) (if (< b 0) (/ (- sqtD (/ b 2)) a) (/ (- c) (+ (/ b 2) sqtD)))))

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