Quadratic roots, wide range

Percentage Accurate: 17.8% → 99.9%
Time: 12.2s
Alternatives: 5
Speedup: 3.6×

Specification

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\[\left(\left(4.930380657631324 \cdot 10^{-32} < a \land a < 2.028240960365167 \cdot 10^{+31}\right) \land \left(4.930380657631324 \cdot 10^{-32} < b \land b < 2.028240960365167 \cdot 10^{+31}\right)\right) \land \left(4.930380657631324 \cdot 10^{-32} < c \land c < 2.028240960365167 \cdot 10^{+31}\right)\]
\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 4.0 a) c)))) (* 2.0 a)))
double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c)))) / (2.0 * 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) - ((4.0d0 * a) * c)))) / (2.0d0 * a)
end function
public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (-b + Math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c)))) / (2.0 * a);
}
def code(a, b, c):
	return (-b + math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c)))) / (2.0 * a)
function code(a, b, c)
	return Float64(Float64(Float64(-b) + sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(Float64(4.0 * a) * c)))) / Float64(2.0 * a))
end
function tmp = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c)))) / (2.0 * a);
end
code[a_, b_, c_] := N[(N[((-b) + N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(N[(4.0 * a), $MachinePrecision] * c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(2.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \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 5 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: 17.8% accurate, 1.0× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 4.0 a) c)))) (* 2.0 a)))
double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c)))) / (2.0 * 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) - ((4.0d0 * a) * c)))) / (2.0d0 * a)
end function
public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (-b + Math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c)))) / (2.0 * a);
}
def code(a, b, c):
	return (-b + math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c)))) / (2.0 * a)
function code(a, b, c)
	return Float64(Float64(Float64(-b) + sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(Float64(4.0 * a) * c)))) / Float64(2.0 * a))
end
function tmp = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c)))) / (2.0 * a);
end
code[a_, b_, c_] := N[(N[((-b) + N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(N[(4.0 * a), $MachinePrecision] * c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(2.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

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

Alternative 1: 99.9% accurate, 1.1× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{c \cdot -2}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)\right)}} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (/ (* c -2.0) (+ b (sqrt (fma b b (* -4.0 (* c a)))))))
double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (c * -2.0) / (b + sqrt(fma(b, b, (-4.0 * (c * a)))));
}
function code(a, b, c)
	return Float64(Float64(c * -2.0) / Float64(b + sqrt(fma(b, b, Float64(-4.0 * Float64(c * a))))))
end
code[a_, b_, c_] := N[(N[(c * -2.0), $MachinePrecision] / N[(b + N[Sqrt[N[(b * b + N[(-4.0 * N[(c * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\frac{c \cdot -2}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)\right)}}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 15.7%

    \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
  2. Add Preprocessing
  3. Step-by-step derivation
    1. lift-+.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(b\right)\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}}{2 \cdot a} \]
    2. +-commutativeN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(b\right)\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]
    3. lift-neg.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} + \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(b\right)\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]
    4. unsub-negN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b}}{2 \cdot a} \]
    5. lower--.f6415.7

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b}}{2 \cdot a} \]
    6. lift--.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\color{blue}{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
    7. sub-negN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\color{blue}{b \cdot b + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c\right)\right)}} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
    8. +-commutativeN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c\right)\right) + b \cdot b}} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
    9. lift-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}\right)\right) + b \cdot b} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
    10. *-commutativeN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{c \cdot \left(4 \cdot a\right)}\right)\right) + b \cdot b} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
    11. distribute-rgt-neg-inN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\color{blue}{c \cdot \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(4 \cdot a\right)\right)} + b \cdot b} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
    12. lower-fma.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, \mathsf{neg}\left(4 \cdot a\right), b \cdot b\right)}} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
    13. lift-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, \mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{4 \cdot a}\right), b \cdot b\right)} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
    14. *-commutativeN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, \mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{a \cdot 4}\right), b \cdot b\right)} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
    15. distribute-rgt-neg-inN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, \color{blue}{a \cdot \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(4\right)\right)}, b \cdot b\right)} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
    16. lower-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, \color{blue}{a \cdot \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(4\right)\right)}, b \cdot b\right)} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
    17. metadata-eval15.7

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot \color{blue}{-4}, b \cdot b\right)} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
  4. Applied rewrites15.7%

    \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -4, b \cdot b\right)} - b}}{2 \cdot a} \]
  5. Step-by-step derivation
    1. lift-/.f64N/A

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

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -4, b \cdot b\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{1}{2 \cdot a}} \]
    3. lift--.f64N/A

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

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -4, b \cdot b\right)} \cdot \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -4, b \cdot b\right)} - b \cdot b}{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -4, b \cdot b\right)} + b}} \cdot \frac{1}{2 \cdot a} \]
    5. associate-*l/N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -4, b \cdot b\right)} \cdot \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -4, b \cdot b\right)} - b \cdot b\right) \cdot \frac{1}{2 \cdot a}}{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -4, b \cdot b\right)} + b}} \]
    6. lower-/.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -4, b \cdot b\right)} \cdot \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -4, b \cdot b\right)} - b \cdot b\right) \cdot \frac{1}{2 \cdot a}}{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -4, b \cdot b\right)} + b}} \]
  6. Applied rewrites16.2%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)\right) - b \cdot b\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{a}}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)\right)}}} \]
  7. Taylor expanded in b around 0

    \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{-2 \cdot c}}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)\right)}} \]
  8. Step-by-step derivation
    1. lower-*.f6499.9

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{-2 \cdot c}}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)\right)}} \]
  9. Applied rewrites99.9%

    \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{-2 \cdot c}}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)\right)}} \]
  10. Final simplification99.9%

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

Alternative 2: 95.4% accurate, 1.1× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{c \cdot -2}{\mathsf{fma}\left(-2, \frac{c \cdot a}{b}, b \cdot 2\right)} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (/ (* c -2.0) (fma -2.0 (/ (* c a) b) (* b 2.0))))
double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (c * -2.0) / fma(-2.0, ((c * a) / b), (b * 2.0));
}
function code(a, b, c)
	return Float64(Float64(c * -2.0) / fma(-2.0, Float64(Float64(c * a) / b), Float64(b * 2.0)))
end
code[a_, b_, c_] := N[(N[(c * -2.0), $MachinePrecision] / N[(-2.0 * N[(N[(c * a), $MachinePrecision] / b), $MachinePrecision] + N[(b * 2.0), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\frac{c \cdot -2}{\mathsf{fma}\left(-2, \frac{c \cdot a}{b}, b \cdot 2\right)}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 15.7%

    \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
  2. Add Preprocessing
  3. Step-by-step derivation
    1. lift-+.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(b\right)\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}}{2 \cdot a} \]
    2. +-commutativeN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(b\right)\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]
    3. lift-neg.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} + \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(b\right)\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]
    4. unsub-negN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b}}{2 \cdot a} \]
    5. lower--.f6415.7

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b}}{2 \cdot a} \]
    6. lift--.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\color{blue}{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
    7. sub-negN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\color{blue}{b \cdot b + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c\right)\right)}} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
    8. +-commutativeN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c\right)\right) + b \cdot b}} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
    9. lift-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}\right)\right) + b \cdot b} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
    10. *-commutativeN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{c \cdot \left(4 \cdot a\right)}\right)\right) + b \cdot b} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
    11. distribute-rgt-neg-inN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\color{blue}{c \cdot \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(4 \cdot a\right)\right)} + b \cdot b} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
    12. lower-fma.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, \mathsf{neg}\left(4 \cdot a\right), b \cdot b\right)}} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
    13. lift-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, \mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{4 \cdot a}\right), b \cdot b\right)} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
    14. *-commutativeN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, \mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{a \cdot 4}\right), b \cdot b\right)} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
    15. distribute-rgt-neg-inN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, \color{blue}{a \cdot \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(4\right)\right)}, b \cdot b\right)} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
    16. lower-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, \color{blue}{a \cdot \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(4\right)\right)}, b \cdot b\right)} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
    17. metadata-eval15.7

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot \color{blue}{-4}, b \cdot b\right)} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
  4. Applied rewrites15.7%

    \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -4, b \cdot b\right)} - b}}{2 \cdot a} \]
  5. Step-by-step derivation
    1. lift-/.f64N/A

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

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -4, b \cdot b\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{1}{2 \cdot a}} \]
    3. lift--.f64N/A

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

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -4, b \cdot b\right)} \cdot \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -4, b \cdot b\right)} - b \cdot b}{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -4, b \cdot b\right)} + b}} \cdot \frac{1}{2 \cdot a} \]
    5. associate-*l/N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -4, b \cdot b\right)} \cdot \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -4, b \cdot b\right)} - b \cdot b\right) \cdot \frac{1}{2 \cdot a}}{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -4, b \cdot b\right)} + b}} \]
    6. lower-/.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -4, b \cdot b\right)} \cdot \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -4, b \cdot b\right)} - b \cdot b\right) \cdot \frac{1}{2 \cdot a}}{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -4, b \cdot b\right)} + b}} \]
  6. Applied rewrites16.2%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)\right) - b \cdot b\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{a}}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)\right)}}} \]
  7. Taylor expanded in b around 0

    \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{-2 \cdot c}}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)\right)}} \]
  8. Step-by-step derivation
    1. lower-*.f6499.9

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{-2 \cdot c}}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)\right)}} \]
  9. Applied rewrites99.9%

    \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{-2 \cdot c}}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)\right)}} \]
  10. Taylor expanded in c around 0

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

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

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

      \[\leadsto \frac{-2 \cdot c}{\mathsf{fma}\left(-2, \frac{\color{blue}{c \cdot a}}{b}, 2 \cdot b\right)} \]
    4. lower-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{-2 \cdot c}{\mathsf{fma}\left(-2, \frac{\color{blue}{c \cdot a}}{b}, 2 \cdot b\right)} \]
    5. lower-*.f6496.6

      \[\leadsto \frac{-2 \cdot c}{\mathsf{fma}\left(-2, \frac{c \cdot a}{b}, \color{blue}{2 \cdot b}\right)} \]
  12. Applied rewrites96.6%

    \[\leadsto \frac{-2 \cdot c}{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(-2, \frac{c \cdot a}{b}, 2 \cdot b\right)}} \]
  13. Final simplification96.6%

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

Alternative 3: 95.4% accurate, 1.2× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{c \cdot -2}{b + \mathsf{fma}\left(-2, \frac{c \cdot a}{b}, b\right)} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (/ (* c -2.0) (+ b (fma -2.0 (/ (* c a) b) b))))
double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (c * -2.0) / (b + fma(-2.0, ((c * a) / b), b));
}
function code(a, b, c)
	return Float64(Float64(c * -2.0) / Float64(b + fma(-2.0, Float64(Float64(c * a) / b), b)))
end
code[a_, b_, c_] := N[(N[(c * -2.0), $MachinePrecision] / N[(b + N[(-2.0 * N[(N[(c * a), $MachinePrecision] / b), $MachinePrecision] + b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\frac{c \cdot -2}{b + \mathsf{fma}\left(-2, \frac{c \cdot a}{b}, b\right)}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 15.7%

    \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
  2. Add Preprocessing
  3. Step-by-step derivation
    1. lift-+.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(b\right)\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}}{2 \cdot a} \]
    2. +-commutativeN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(b\right)\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]
    3. lift-neg.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} + \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(b\right)\right)}}{2 \cdot a} \]
    4. unsub-negN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b}}{2 \cdot a} \]
    5. lower--.f6415.7

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b}}{2 \cdot a} \]
    6. lift--.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\color{blue}{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
    7. sub-negN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\color{blue}{b \cdot b + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c\right)\right)}} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
    8. +-commutativeN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c\right)\right) + b \cdot b}} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
    9. lift-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{\left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}\right)\right) + b \cdot b} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
    10. *-commutativeN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{c \cdot \left(4 \cdot a\right)}\right)\right) + b \cdot b} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
    11. distribute-rgt-neg-inN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\color{blue}{c \cdot \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(4 \cdot a\right)\right)} + b \cdot b} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
    12. lower-fma.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, \mathsf{neg}\left(4 \cdot a\right), b \cdot b\right)}} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
    13. lift-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, \mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{4 \cdot a}\right), b \cdot b\right)} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
    14. *-commutativeN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, \mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{a \cdot 4}\right), b \cdot b\right)} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
    15. distribute-rgt-neg-inN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, \color{blue}{a \cdot \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(4\right)\right)}, b \cdot b\right)} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
    16. lower-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, \color{blue}{a \cdot \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(4\right)\right)}, b \cdot b\right)} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
    17. metadata-eval15.7

      \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot \color{blue}{-4}, b \cdot b\right)} - b}{2 \cdot a} \]
  4. Applied rewrites15.7%

    \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -4, b \cdot b\right)} - b}}{2 \cdot a} \]
  5. Step-by-step derivation
    1. lift-/.f64N/A

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

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -4, b \cdot b\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{1}{2 \cdot a}} \]
    3. lift--.f64N/A

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

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -4, b \cdot b\right)} \cdot \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -4, b \cdot b\right)} - b \cdot b}{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -4, b \cdot b\right)} + b}} \cdot \frac{1}{2 \cdot a} \]
    5. associate-*l/N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -4, b \cdot b\right)} \cdot \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -4, b \cdot b\right)} - b \cdot b\right) \cdot \frac{1}{2 \cdot a}}{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -4, b \cdot b\right)} + b}} \]
    6. lower-/.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -4, b \cdot b\right)} \cdot \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -4, b \cdot b\right)} - b \cdot b\right) \cdot \frac{1}{2 \cdot a}}{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, a \cdot -4, b \cdot b\right)} + b}} \]
  6. Applied rewrites16.2%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)\right) - b \cdot b\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{a}}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)\right)}}} \]
  7. Taylor expanded in b around 0

    \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{-2 \cdot c}}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)\right)}} \]
  8. Step-by-step derivation
    1. lower-*.f6499.9

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{-2 \cdot c}}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)\right)}} \]
  9. Applied rewrites99.9%

    \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{-2 \cdot c}}{b + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(b, b, -4 \cdot \left(c \cdot a\right)\right)}} \]
  10. Taylor expanded in c around 0

    \[\leadsto \frac{-2 \cdot c}{b + \color{blue}{\left(b + -2 \cdot \frac{a \cdot c}{b}\right)}} \]
  11. Step-by-step derivation
    1. +-commutativeN/A

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

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

      \[\leadsto \frac{-2 \cdot c}{b + \mathsf{fma}\left(-2, \color{blue}{\frac{a \cdot c}{b}}, b\right)} \]
    4. *-commutativeN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{-2 \cdot c}{b + \mathsf{fma}\left(-2, \frac{\color{blue}{c \cdot a}}{b}, b\right)} \]
    5. lower-*.f6496.6

      \[\leadsto \frac{-2 \cdot c}{b + \mathsf{fma}\left(-2, \frac{\color{blue}{c \cdot a}}{b}, b\right)} \]
  12. Applied rewrites96.6%

    \[\leadsto \frac{-2 \cdot c}{b + \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(-2, \frac{c \cdot a}{b}, b\right)}} \]
  13. Final simplification96.6%

    \[\leadsto \frac{c \cdot -2}{b + \mathsf{fma}\left(-2, \frac{c \cdot a}{b}, b\right)} \]
  14. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 4: 95.3% accurate, 1.2× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(c \cdot c, \frac{a}{b \cdot b}, c\right)}{-b} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b c) :precision binary64 (/ (fma (* c c) (/ a (* b b)) c) (- b)))
double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return fma((c * c), (a / (b * b)), c) / -b;
}
function code(a, b, c)
	return Float64(fma(Float64(c * c), Float64(a / Float64(b * b)), c) / Float64(-b))
end
code[a_, b_, c_] := N[(N[(N[(c * c), $MachinePrecision] * N[(a / N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + c), $MachinePrecision] / (-b)), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(c \cdot c, \frac{a}{b \cdot b}, c\right)}{-b}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 15.7%

    \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
  2. Add Preprocessing
  3. Taylor expanded in b around inf

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-1 \cdot c + -1 \cdot \frac{a \cdot {c}^{2}}{{b}^{2}}}{b}} \]
  4. Step-by-step derivation
    1. distribute-lft-outN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{-1 \cdot \left(c + \frac{a \cdot {c}^{2}}{{b}^{2}}\right)}}{b} \]
    2. associate-/l*N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \frac{c + \frac{a \cdot {c}^{2}}{{b}^{2}}}{b}} \]
    3. mul-1-negN/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{c + \frac{a \cdot {c}^{2}}{{b}^{2}}}{b}\right)} \]
    4. lower-neg.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{c + \frac{a \cdot {c}^{2}}{{b}^{2}}}{b}\right)} \]
    5. lower-/.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{\frac{c + \frac{a \cdot {c}^{2}}{{b}^{2}}}{b}}\right) \]
    6. +-commutativeN/A

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{\color{blue}{\frac{a \cdot {c}^{2}}{{b}^{2}} + c}}{b}\right) \]
    7. *-commutativeN/A

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{\frac{\color{blue}{{c}^{2} \cdot a}}{{b}^{2}} + c}{b}\right) \]
    8. associate-/l*N/A

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{\color{blue}{{c}^{2} \cdot \frac{a}{{b}^{2}}} + c}{b}\right) \]
    9. lower-fma.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left({c}^{2}, \frac{a}{{b}^{2}}, c\right)}}{b}\right) \]
    10. unpow2N/A

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{c \cdot c}, \frac{a}{{b}^{2}}, c\right)}{b}\right) \]
    11. lower-*.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{c \cdot c}, \frac{a}{{b}^{2}}, c\right)}{b}\right) \]
    12. lower-/.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(c \cdot c, \color{blue}{\frac{a}{{b}^{2}}}, c\right)}{b}\right) \]
    13. unpow2N/A

      \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(c \cdot c, \frac{a}{\color{blue}{b \cdot b}}, c\right)}{b}\right) \]
    14. lower-*.f6496.5

      \[\leadsto -\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(c \cdot c, \frac{a}{\color{blue}{b \cdot b}}, c\right)}{b} \]
  5. Applied rewrites96.5%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(c \cdot c, \frac{a}{b \cdot b}, c\right)}{b}} \]
  6. Final simplification96.5%

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

Alternative 5: 90.4% accurate, 3.6× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{c}{-b} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b c) :precision binary64 (/ c (- b)))
double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return c / -b;
}
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
public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return c / -b;
}
def code(a, b, c):
	return c / -b
function code(a, b, c)
	return Float64(c / Float64(-b))
end
function tmp = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = c / -b;
end
code[a_, b_, c_] := N[(c / (-b)), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\frac{c}{-b}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 15.7%

    \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
  2. Add Preprocessing
  3. Taylor expanded in b around inf

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
  4. Step-by-step derivation
    1. mul-1-negN/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{c}{b}\right)} \]
    2. distribute-neg-frac2N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{c}{\mathsf{neg}\left(b\right)}} \]
    3. lower-/.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{c}{\mathsf{neg}\left(b\right)}} \]
    4. lower-neg.f6492.0

      \[\leadsto \frac{c}{\color{blue}{-b}} \]
  5. Applied rewrites92.0%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{c}{-b}} \]
  6. Add Preprocessing

Reproduce

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herbie shell --seed 2024222 
(FPCore (a b c)
  :name "Quadratic roots, wide range"
  :precision binary64
  :pre (and (and (and (< 4.930380657631324e-32 a) (< a 2.028240960365167e+31)) (and (< 4.930380657631324e-32 b) (< b 2.028240960365167e+31))) (and (< 4.930380657631324e-32 c) (< c 2.028240960365167e+31)))
  (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 4.0 a) c)))) (* 2.0 a)))