Cubic critical, narrow range

Percentage Accurate: 56.1% → 99.3%
Time: 15.2s
Alternatives: 13
Speedup: 2.9×

Specification

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\[\left(\left(1.0536712127723509 \cdot 10^{-8} < a \land a < 94906265.62425156\right) \land \left(1.0536712127723509 \cdot 10^{-8} < b \land b < 94906265.62425156\right)\right) \land \left(1.0536712127723509 \cdot 10^{-8} < c \land c < 94906265.62425156\right)\]
\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{3 \cdot a} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 3.0 a) c)))) (* 3.0 a)))
double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c)))) / (3.0 * a);
}
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
public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (-b + Math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c)))) / (3.0 * a);
}
def code(a, b, c):
	return (-b + math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c)))) / (3.0 * a)
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
function tmp = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c)))) / (3.0 * a);
end
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]
\begin{array}{l}

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

Sampling outcomes in binary64 precision:

Local Percentage Accuracy vs ?

The average percentage accuracy by input value. Horizontal axis shows value of an input variable; the variable is choosen in the title. Vertical axis is accuracy; higher is better. Red represent the original program, while blue represents Herbie's suggestion. These can be toggled with buttons below the plot. The line is an average while dots represent individual samples.

Accuracy vs Speed?

Herbie found 13 alternatives:

AlternativeAccuracySpeedup
The accuracy (vertical axis) and speed (horizontal axis) of each alternatives. Up and to the right is better. The red square shows the initial program, and each blue circle shows an alternative.The line shows the best available speed-accuracy tradeoffs.

Initial Program: 56.1% accurate, 1.0× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{3 \cdot a} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 3.0 a) c)))) (* 3.0 a)))
double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c)))) / (3.0 * a);
}
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
public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (-b + Math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c)))) / (3.0 * a);
}
def code(a, b, c):
	return (-b + math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c)))) / (3.0 * a)
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
function tmp = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c)))) / (3.0 * a);
end
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]
\begin{array}{l}

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

Alternative 1: 99.3% accurate, 0.8× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right)\\ \frac{t\_0}{\left(b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, t\_0\right)}\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} \end{array} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0 (* c (* a -3.0))))
   (/ t_0 (* (+ b (sqrt (fma b b t_0))) (* a 3.0)))))
double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double t_0 = c * (a * -3.0);
	return t_0 / ((b + sqrt(fma(b, b, t_0))) * (a * 3.0));
}
function code(a, b, c)
	t_0 = Float64(c * Float64(a * -3.0))
	return Float64(t_0 / Float64(Float64(b + sqrt(fma(b, b, t_0))) * Float64(a * 3.0)))
end
code[a_, b_, c_] := Block[{t$95$0 = N[(c * N[(a * -3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]}, N[(t$95$0 / N[(N[(b + N[Sqrt[N[(b * b + t$95$0), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]
\begin{array}{l}

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\begin{array}{l}
t_0 := c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right)\\
\frac{t\_0}{\left(b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, t\_0\right)}\right) \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)}
\end{array}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 54.0%

    \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{3 \cdot a} \]
  2. Add Preprocessing
  3. Applied rewrites54.1%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{b - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, -3 \cdot c, b \cdot b\right)}}{a}}{-3}} \]
  4. Applied rewrites55.5%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b \cdot b - \mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}{\left(a \cdot -3\right) \cdot \left(b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}\right)}} \]
  5. Step-by-step derivation
    1. lift--.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b \cdot b - \mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}}{\left(a \cdot -3\right) \cdot \left(b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}\right)} \]
    2. lift-fma.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{b \cdot b - \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right) + b \cdot b\right)}}{\left(a \cdot -3\right) \cdot \left(b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}\right)} \]
    3. +-commutativeN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{b \cdot b - \color{blue}{\left(b \cdot b + c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right)\right)}}{\left(a \cdot -3\right) \cdot \left(b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}\right)} \]
    4. associate--r+N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left(b \cdot b - b \cdot b\right) - c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right)}}{\left(a \cdot -3\right) \cdot \left(b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}\right)} \]
    5. lower--.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left(b \cdot b - b \cdot b\right) - c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right)}}{\left(a \cdot -3\right) \cdot \left(b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}\right)} \]
    6. lower--.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left(b \cdot b - b \cdot b\right)} - c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right)}{\left(a \cdot -3\right) \cdot \left(b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}\right)} \]
    7. lower-*.f6499.3

      \[\leadsto \frac{\left(b \cdot b - b \cdot b\right) - \color{blue}{c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right)}}{\left(a \cdot -3\right) \cdot \left(b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}\right)} \]
  6. Applied rewrites99.3%

    \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left(b \cdot b - b \cdot b\right) - c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right)}}{\left(a \cdot -3\right) \cdot \left(b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}\right)} \]
  7. Applied rewrites99.3%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right)}{\left(a \cdot 3\right) \cdot \left(b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right)\right)}\right)}} \]
  8. Final simplification99.3%

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

Alternative 2: 76.5% accurate, 0.5× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3} \leq -6 \cdot 10^{-7}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right)\right)}}{a \cdot -3}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= (/ (- (sqrt (- (* b b) (* c (* a 3.0)))) b) (* a 3.0)) -6e-7)
   (/ (- b (sqrt (fma b b (* c (* a -3.0))))) (* a -3.0))
   (* -0.5 (/ c b))))
double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (((sqrt(((b * b) - (c * (a * 3.0)))) - b) / (a * 3.0)) <= -6e-7) {
		tmp = (b - sqrt(fma(b, b, (c * (a * -3.0))))) / (a * -3.0);
	} else {
		tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
	}
	return tmp;
}
function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (Float64(Float64(sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(c * Float64(a * 3.0)))) - b) / Float64(a * 3.0)) <= -6e-7)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(b - sqrt(fma(b, b, Float64(c * Float64(a * -3.0))))) / Float64(a * -3.0));
	else
		tmp = Float64(-0.5 * Float64(c / b));
	end
	return tmp
end
code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(c * N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * 3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], -6e-7], N[(N[(b - N[Sqrt[N[(b * b + N[(c * N[(a * -3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(a * -3.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(-0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\begin{array}{l}
\mathbf{if}\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3} \leq -6 \cdot 10^{-7}:\\
\;\;\;\;\frac{b - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right)\right)}}{a \cdot -3}\\

\mathbf{else}:\\
\;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\


\end{array}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Split input into 2 regimes
  2. if (/.f64 (+.f64 (neg.f64 b) (sqrt.f64 (-.f64 (*.f64 b b) (*.f64 (*.f64 #s(literal 3 binary64) a) c)))) (*.f64 #s(literal 3 binary64) a)) < -5.9999999999999997e-7

    1. Initial program 72.2%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{3 \cdot a} \]
    2. Add Preprocessing
    3. Applied rewrites72.2%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{b - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, -3 \cdot c, b \cdot b\right)}}{a}}{-3}} \]
    4. Applied rewrites73.9%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{b \cdot b - \mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}{\left(a \cdot -3\right) \cdot \left(b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}\right)}} \]
    5. Step-by-step derivation
      1. lift--.f64N/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{b \cdot b - \mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}}{\left(a \cdot -3\right) \cdot \left(b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}\right)} \]
      2. lift-fma.f64N/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{b \cdot b - \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right) + b \cdot b\right)}}{\left(a \cdot -3\right) \cdot \left(b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}\right)} \]
      3. +-commutativeN/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{b \cdot b - \color{blue}{\left(b \cdot b + c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right)\right)}}{\left(a \cdot -3\right) \cdot \left(b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}\right)} \]
      4. associate--r+N/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left(b \cdot b - b \cdot b\right) - c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right)}}{\left(a \cdot -3\right) \cdot \left(b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}\right)} \]
      5. lower--.f64N/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left(b \cdot b - b \cdot b\right) - c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right)}}{\left(a \cdot -3\right) \cdot \left(b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}\right)} \]
      6. lower--.f64N/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left(b \cdot b - b \cdot b\right)} - c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right)}{\left(a \cdot -3\right) \cdot \left(b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}\right)} \]
      7. lower-*.f6499.3

        \[\leadsto \frac{\left(b \cdot b - b \cdot b\right) - \color{blue}{c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right)}}{\left(a \cdot -3\right) \cdot \left(b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}\right)} \]
    6. Applied rewrites99.3%

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left(b \cdot b - b \cdot b\right) - c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right)}}{\left(a \cdot -3\right) \cdot \left(b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -3, b \cdot b\right)}\right)} \]
    7. Applied rewrites72.4%

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

    if -5.9999999999999997e-7 < (/.f64 (+.f64 (neg.f64 b) (sqrt.f64 (-.f64 (*.f64 b b) (*.f64 (*.f64 #s(literal 3 binary64) a) c)))) (*.f64 #s(literal 3 binary64) a))

    1. Initial program 32.9%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(3 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{3 \cdot a} \]
    2. Add Preprocessing
    3. Taylor expanded in b around inf

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-1}{2} \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
    4. Step-by-step derivation
      1. lower-*.f64N/A

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-1}{2} \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
      2. lower-/.f6482.5

        \[\leadsto -0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{c}{b}} \]
    5. Applied rewrites82.5%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
  3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
  4. Final simplification76.5%

    \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - c \cdot \left(a \cdot 3\right)} - b}{a \cdot 3} \leq -6 \cdot 10^{-7}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, c \cdot \left(a \cdot -3\right)\right)}}{a \cdot -3}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \]
  5. Add Preprocessing

Reproduce

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herbie shell --seed 2024219 
(FPCore (a b c)
  :name "Cubic critical, narrow range"
  :precision binary64
  :pre (and (and (and (< 1.0536712127723509e-8 a) (< a 94906265.62425156)) (and (< 1.0536712127723509e-8 b) (< b 94906265.62425156))) (and (< 1.0536712127723509e-8 c) (< c 94906265.62425156)))
  (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 3.0 a) c)))) (* 3.0 a)))