quad2p (problem 3.2.1, positive)

Percentage Accurate: 51.9% → 85.3%
Time: 8.5s
Alternatives: 8
Speedup: 1.7×

Specification

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\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\left(-b\_2\right) + \sqrt{b\_2 \cdot b\_2 - a \cdot c}}{a} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b_2 c)
 :precision binary64
 (/ (+ (- b_2) (sqrt (- (* b_2 b_2) (* a c)))) a))
double code(double a, double b_2, double c) {
	return (-b_2 + sqrt(((b_2 * b_2) - (a * c)))) / a;
}
real(8) function code(a, b_2, c)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b_2
    real(8), intent (in) :: c
    code = (-b_2 + sqrt(((b_2 * b_2) - (a * c)))) / a
end function
public static double code(double a, double b_2, double c) {
	return (-b_2 + Math.sqrt(((b_2 * b_2) - (a * c)))) / a;
}
def code(a, b_2, c):
	return (-b_2 + math.sqrt(((b_2 * b_2) - (a * c)))) / a
function code(a, b_2, c)
	return Float64(Float64(Float64(-b_2) + sqrt(Float64(Float64(b_2 * b_2) - Float64(a * c)))) / a)
end
function tmp = code(a, b_2, c)
	tmp = (-b_2 + sqrt(((b_2 * b_2) - (a * c)))) / a;
end
code[a_, b$95$2_, c_] := N[(N[((-b$95$2) + N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b$95$2 * b$95$2), $MachinePrecision] - N[(a * c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\frac{\left(-b\_2\right) + \sqrt{b\_2 \cdot b\_2 - a \cdot c}}{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 8 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: 51.9% accurate, 1.0× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\left(-b\_2\right) + \sqrt{b\_2 \cdot b\_2 - a \cdot c}}{a} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b_2 c)
 :precision binary64
 (/ (+ (- b_2) (sqrt (- (* b_2 b_2) (* a c)))) a))
double code(double a, double b_2, double c) {
	return (-b_2 + sqrt(((b_2 * b_2) - (a * c)))) / a;
}
real(8) function code(a, b_2, c)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b_2
    real(8), intent (in) :: c
    code = (-b_2 + sqrt(((b_2 * b_2) - (a * c)))) / a
end function
public static double code(double a, double b_2, double c) {
	return (-b_2 + Math.sqrt(((b_2 * b_2) - (a * c)))) / a;
}
def code(a, b_2, c):
	return (-b_2 + math.sqrt(((b_2 * b_2) - (a * c)))) / a
function code(a, b_2, c)
	return Float64(Float64(Float64(-b_2) + sqrt(Float64(Float64(b_2 * b_2) - Float64(a * c)))) / a)
end
function tmp = code(a, b_2, c)
	tmp = (-b_2 + sqrt(((b_2 * b_2) - (a * c)))) / a;
end
code[a_, b$95$2_, c_] := N[(N[((-b$95$2) + N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b$95$2 * b$95$2), $MachinePrecision] - N[(a * c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\frac{\left(-b\_2\right) + \sqrt{b\_2 \cdot b\_2 - a \cdot c}}{a}
\end{array}

Alternative 1: 85.3% accurate, 0.8× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b\_2 \leq -8.5 \cdot 10^{+100}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{b\_2}{a}, -2, \frac{c \cdot 0.5}{b\_2}\right)\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b\_2 \leq 6 \cdot 10^{-153}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{b\_2 \cdot b\_2 - a \cdot c} - b\_2}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c \cdot -0.5}{b\_2}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b_2 c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b_2 -8.5e+100)
   (fma (/ b_2 a) -2.0 (/ (* c 0.5) b_2))
   (if (<= b_2 6e-153)
     (/ (- (sqrt (- (* b_2 b_2) (* a c))) b_2) a)
     (/ (* c -0.5) b_2))))
double code(double a, double b_2, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b_2 <= -8.5e+100) {
		tmp = fma((b_2 / a), -2.0, ((c * 0.5) / b_2));
	} else if (b_2 <= 6e-153) {
		tmp = (sqrt(((b_2 * b_2) - (a * c))) - b_2) / a;
	} else {
		tmp = (c * -0.5) / b_2;
	}
	return tmp;
}
function code(a, b_2, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b_2 <= -8.5e+100)
		tmp = fma(Float64(b_2 / a), -2.0, Float64(Float64(c * 0.5) / b_2));
	elseif (b_2 <= 6e-153)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(sqrt(Float64(Float64(b_2 * b_2) - Float64(a * c))) - b_2) / a);
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(c * -0.5) / b_2);
	end
	return tmp
end
code[a_, b$95$2_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b$95$2, -8.5e+100], N[(N[(b$95$2 / a), $MachinePrecision] * -2.0 + N[(N[(c * 0.5), $MachinePrecision] / b$95$2), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b$95$2, 6e-153], N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b$95$2 * b$95$2), $MachinePrecision] - N[(a * c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b$95$2), $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(c * -0.5), $MachinePrecision] / b$95$2), $MachinePrecision]]]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\begin{array}{l}
\mathbf{if}\;b\_2 \leq -8.5 \cdot 10^{+100}:\\
\;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{b\_2}{a}, -2, \frac{c \cdot 0.5}{b\_2}\right)\\

\mathbf{elif}\;b\_2 \leq 6 \cdot 10^{-153}:\\
\;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{b\_2 \cdot b\_2 - a \cdot c} - b\_2}{a}\\

\mathbf{else}:\\
\;\;\;\;\frac{c \cdot -0.5}{b\_2}\\


\end{array}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Split input into 3 regimes
  2. if b_2 < -8.50000000000000043e100

    1. Initial program 43.8%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\_2\right) + \sqrt{b\_2 \cdot b\_2 - a \cdot c}}{a} \]
    2. Add Preprocessing
    3. Taylor expanded in b_2 around -inf

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \left(b\_2 \cdot \left(\frac{-1}{2} \cdot \frac{c}{{b\_2}^{2}} + 2 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right)\right)} \]
    4. Step-by-step derivation
      1. mul-1-negN/A

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{neg}\left(b\_2 \cdot \left(\frac{-1}{2} \cdot \frac{c}{{b\_2}^{2}} + 2 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right)\right)} \]
      2. lower-neg.f64N/A

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{neg}\left(b\_2 \cdot \left(\frac{-1}{2} \cdot \frac{c}{{b\_2}^{2}} + 2 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right)\right)} \]
      3. lower-*.f64N/A

        \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{b\_2 \cdot \left(\frac{-1}{2} \cdot \frac{c}{{b\_2}^{2}} + 2 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right)}\right) \]
      4. associate-*r/N/A

        \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(b\_2 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-1}{2} \cdot c}{{b\_2}^{2}}} + 2 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right)\right) \]
      5. *-commutativeN/A

        \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(b\_2 \cdot \left(\frac{\color{blue}{c \cdot \frac{-1}{2}}}{{b\_2}^{2}} + 2 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right)\right) \]
      6. associate-/l*N/A

        \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(b\_2 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{c \cdot \frac{\frac{-1}{2}}{{b\_2}^{2}}} + 2 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right)\right) \]
      7. lower-fma.f64N/A

        \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(b\_2 \cdot \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, \frac{\frac{-1}{2}}{{b\_2}^{2}}, 2 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right)}\right) \]
      8. lower-/.f64N/A

        \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(b\_2 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(c, \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-1}{2}}{{b\_2}^{2}}}, 2 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right)\right) \]
      9. unpow2N/A

        \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(b\_2 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(c, \frac{\frac{-1}{2}}{\color{blue}{b\_2 \cdot b\_2}}, 2 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right)\right) \]
      10. lower-*.f64N/A

        \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(b\_2 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(c, \frac{\frac{-1}{2}}{\color{blue}{b\_2 \cdot b\_2}}, 2 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right)\right) \]
      11. associate-*r/N/A

        \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(b\_2 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(c, \frac{\frac{-1}{2}}{b\_2 \cdot b\_2}, \color{blue}{\frac{2 \cdot 1}{a}}\right)\right) \]
      12. metadata-evalN/A

        \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(b\_2 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(c, \frac{\frac{-1}{2}}{b\_2 \cdot b\_2}, \frac{\color{blue}{2}}{a}\right)\right) \]
      13. lower-/.f6496.0

        \[\leadsto -b\_2 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(c, \frac{-0.5}{b\_2 \cdot b\_2}, \color{blue}{\frac{2}{a}}\right) \]
    5. Applied rewrites96.0%

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-b\_2 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(c, \frac{-0.5}{b\_2 \cdot b\_2}, \frac{2}{a}\right)} \]
    6. Taylor expanded in b_2 around 0

      \[\leadsto \frac{1}{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{c}{b\_2}} \]
    7. Step-by-step derivation
      1. Applied rewrites2.7%

        \[\leadsto c \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{0.5}{b\_2}} \]
      2. Taylor expanded in c around 0

        \[\leadsto \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{c}{b\_2} - \color{blue}{2 \cdot \frac{b\_2}{a}} \]
      3. Step-by-step derivation
        1. Applied rewrites96.3%

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{b\_2}{a}, \color{blue}{-2}, \frac{c \cdot 0.5}{b\_2}\right) \]

        if -8.50000000000000043e100 < b_2 < 6e-153

        1. Initial program 88.2%

          \[\frac{\left(-b\_2\right) + \sqrt{b\_2 \cdot b\_2 - a \cdot c}}{a} \]
        2. Add Preprocessing

        if 6e-153 < b_2

        1. Initial program 22.5%

          \[\frac{\left(-b\_2\right) + \sqrt{b\_2 \cdot b\_2 - a \cdot c}}{a} \]
        2. Add Preprocessing
        3. Taylor expanded in b_2 around inf

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-1}{2} \cdot \frac{c}{b\_2}} \]
        4. Step-by-step derivation
          1. associate-*r/N/A

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-1}{2} \cdot c}{b\_2}} \]
          2. *-commutativeN/A

            \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{c \cdot \frac{-1}{2}}}{b\_2} \]
          3. associate-/l*N/A

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{c \cdot \frac{\frac{-1}{2}}{b\_2}} \]
          4. metadata-evalN/A

            \[\leadsto c \cdot \frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{2}\right)}}{b\_2} \]
          5. distribute-neg-fracN/A

            \[\leadsto c \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{b\_2}\right)\right)} \]
          6. metadata-evalN/A

            \[\leadsto c \cdot \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{2} \cdot 1}}{b\_2}\right)\right) \]
          7. associate-*r/N/A

            \[\leadsto c \cdot \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b\_2}}\right)\right) \]
          8. lower-*.f64N/A

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{c \cdot \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b\_2}\right)\right)} \]
          9. associate-*r/N/A

            \[\leadsto c \cdot \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{2} \cdot 1}{b\_2}}\right)\right) \]
          10. metadata-evalN/A

            \[\leadsto c \cdot \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{2}}}{b\_2}\right)\right) \]
          11. distribute-neg-fracN/A

            \[\leadsto c \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{2}\right)}{b\_2}} \]
          12. metadata-evalN/A

            \[\leadsto c \cdot \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{-1}{2}}}{b\_2} \]
          13. lower-/.f6485.1

            \[\leadsto c \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{-0.5}{b\_2}} \]
        5. Applied rewrites85.1%

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{c \cdot \frac{-0.5}{b\_2}} \]
        6. Taylor expanded in b_2 around inf

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-1}{2} \cdot \frac{c}{b\_2}} \]
        7. Step-by-step derivation
          1. associate-*r/N/A

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-1}{2} \cdot c}{b\_2}} \]
          2. lower-/.f64N/A

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-1}{2} \cdot c}{b\_2}} \]
          3. *-commutativeN/A

            \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{c \cdot \frac{-1}{2}}}{b\_2} \]
          4. lower-*.f6485.3

            \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{c \cdot -0.5}}{b\_2} \]
        8. Applied rewrites85.3%

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{c \cdot -0.5}{b\_2}} \]
      4. Recombined 3 regimes into one program.
      5. Final simplification88.5%

        \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b\_2 \leq -8.5 \cdot 10^{+100}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{b\_2}{a}, -2, \frac{c \cdot 0.5}{b\_2}\right)\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b\_2 \leq 6 \cdot 10^{-153}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{b\_2 \cdot b\_2 - a \cdot c} - b\_2}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c \cdot -0.5}{b\_2}\\ \end{array} \]
      6. Add Preprocessing

      Alternative 2: 79.1% accurate, 0.9× speedup?

      \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b\_2 \leq -1.15 \cdot 10^{+15}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{b\_2}{a}, -2, \frac{c \cdot 0.5}{b\_2}\right)\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b\_2 \leq 6 \cdot 10^{-153}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{a \cdot \left(-c\right)} - b\_2}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c \cdot -0.5}{b\_2}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]
      (FPCore (a b_2 c)
       :precision binary64
       (if (<= b_2 -1.15e+15)
         (fma (/ b_2 a) -2.0 (/ (* c 0.5) b_2))
         (if (<= b_2 6e-153) (/ (- (sqrt (* a (- c))) b_2) a) (/ (* c -0.5) b_2))))
      double code(double a, double b_2, double c) {
      	double tmp;
      	if (b_2 <= -1.15e+15) {
      		tmp = fma((b_2 / a), -2.0, ((c * 0.5) / b_2));
      	} else if (b_2 <= 6e-153) {
      		tmp = (sqrt((a * -c)) - b_2) / a;
      	} else {
      		tmp = (c * -0.5) / b_2;
      	}
      	return tmp;
      }
      
      function code(a, b_2, c)
      	tmp = 0.0
      	if (b_2 <= -1.15e+15)
      		tmp = fma(Float64(b_2 / a), -2.0, Float64(Float64(c * 0.5) / b_2));
      	elseif (b_2 <= 6e-153)
      		tmp = Float64(Float64(sqrt(Float64(a * Float64(-c))) - b_2) / a);
      	else
      		tmp = Float64(Float64(c * -0.5) / b_2);
      	end
      	return tmp
      end
      
      code[a_, b$95$2_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b$95$2, -1.15e+15], N[(N[(b$95$2 / a), $MachinePrecision] * -2.0 + N[(N[(c * 0.5), $MachinePrecision] / b$95$2), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b$95$2, 6e-153], N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(a * (-c)), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b$95$2), $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision], N[(N[(c * -0.5), $MachinePrecision] / b$95$2), $MachinePrecision]]]
      
      \begin{array}{l}
      
      \\
      \begin{array}{l}
      \mathbf{if}\;b\_2 \leq -1.15 \cdot 10^{+15}:\\
      \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{b\_2}{a}, -2, \frac{c \cdot 0.5}{b\_2}\right)\\
      
      \mathbf{elif}\;b\_2 \leq 6 \cdot 10^{-153}:\\
      \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{a \cdot \left(-c\right)} - b\_2}{a}\\
      
      \mathbf{else}:\\
      \;\;\;\;\frac{c \cdot -0.5}{b\_2}\\
      
      
      \end{array}
      \end{array}
      
      Derivation
      1. Split input into 3 regimes
      2. if b_2 < -1.15e15

        1. Initial program 65.6%

          \[\frac{\left(-b\_2\right) + \sqrt{b\_2 \cdot b\_2 - a \cdot c}}{a} \]
        2. Add Preprocessing
        3. Taylor expanded in b_2 around -inf

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \left(b\_2 \cdot \left(\frac{-1}{2} \cdot \frac{c}{{b\_2}^{2}} + 2 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right)\right)} \]
        4. Step-by-step derivation
          1. mul-1-negN/A

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{neg}\left(b\_2 \cdot \left(\frac{-1}{2} \cdot \frac{c}{{b\_2}^{2}} + 2 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right)\right)} \]
          2. lower-neg.f64N/A

            \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{neg}\left(b\_2 \cdot \left(\frac{-1}{2} \cdot \frac{c}{{b\_2}^{2}} + 2 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right)\right)} \]
          3. lower-*.f64N/A

            \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{b\_2 \cdot \left(\frac{-1}{2} \cdot \frac{c}{{b\_2}^{2}} + 2 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right)}\right) \]
          4. associate-*r/N/A

            \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(b\_2 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-1}{2} \cdot c}{{b\_2}^{2}}} + 2 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right)\right) \]
          5. *-commutativeN/A

            \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(b\_2 \cdot \left(\frac{\color{blue}{c \cdot \frac{-1}{2}}}{{b\_2}^{2}} + 2 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right)\right) \]
          6. associate-/l*N/A

            \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(b\_2 \cdot \left(\color{blue}{c \cdot \frac{\frac{-1}{2}}{{b\_2}^{2}}} + 2 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right)\right) \]
          7. lower-fma.f64N/A

            \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(b\_2 \cdot \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(c, \frac{\frac{-1}{2}}{{b\_2}^{2}}, 2 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right)}\right) \]
          8. lower-/.f64N/A

            \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(b\_2 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(c, \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-1}{2}}{{b\_2}^{2}}}, 2 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right)\right) \]
          9. unpow2N/A

            \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(b\_2 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(c, \frac{\frac{-1}{2}}{\color{blue}{b\_2 \cdot b\_2}}, 2 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right)\right) \]
          10. lower-*.f64N/A

            \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(b\_2 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(c, \frac{\frac{-1}{2}}{\color{blue}{b\_2 \cdot b\_2}}, 2 \cdot \frac{1}{a}\right)\right) \]
          11. associate-*r/N/A

            \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(b\_2 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(c, \frac{\frac{-1}{2}}{b\_2 \cdot b\_2}, \color{blue}{\frac{2 \cdot 1}{a}}\right)\right) \]
          12. metadata-evalN/A

            \[\leadsto \mathsf{neg}\left(b\_2 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(c, \frac{\frac{-1}{2}}{b\_2 \cdot b\_2}, \frac{\color{blue}{2}}{a}\right)\right) \]
          13. lower-/.f6491.9

            \[\leadsto -b\_2 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(c, \frac{-0.5}{b\_2 \cdot b\_2}, \color{blue}{\frac{2}{a}}\right) \]
        5. Applied rewrites91.9%

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-b\_2 \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(c, \frac{-0.5}{b\_2 \cdot b\_2}, \frac{2}{a}\right)} \]
        6. Taylor expanded in b_2 around 0

          \[\leadsto \frac{1}{2} \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{c}{b\_2}} \]
        7. Step-by-step derivation
          1. Applied rewrites3.0%

            \[\leadsto c \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{0.5}{b\_2}} \]
          2. Taylor expanded in c around 0

            \[\leadsto \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{c}{b\_2} - \color{blue}{2 \cdot \frac{b\_2}{a}} \]
          3. Step-by-step derivation
            1. Applied rewrites92.3%

              \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{b\_2}{a}, \color{blue}{-2}, \frac{c \cdot 0.5}{b\_2}\right) \]

            if -1.15e15 < b_2 < 6e-153

            1. Initial program 81.1%

              \[\frac{\left(-b\_2\right) + \sqrt{b\_2 \cdot b\_2 - a \cdot c}}{a} \]
            2. Add Preprocessing
            3. Applied rewrites60.3%

              \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\_2\right) + \sqrt{\color{blue}{\frac{-1}{\frac{1}{\mathsf{fma}\left(b\_2, b\_2, a \cdot c\right)}}}}}{a} \]
            4. Taylor expanded in b_2 around 0

              \[\leadsto \frac{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(b\_2\right)\right) + \sqrt{\color{blue}{-1 \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right)}}}{a} \]
            5. Step-by-step derivation
              1. mul-1-negN/A

                \[\leadsto \frac{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(b\_2\right)\right) + \sqrt{\color{blue}{\mathsf{neg}\left(a \cdot c\right)}}}{a} \]
              2. *-commutativeN/A

                \[\leadsto \frac{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(b\_2\right)\right) + \sqrt{\mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{c \cdot a}\right)}}{a} \]
              3. distribute-rgt-neg-inN/A

                \[\leadsto \frac{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(b\_2\right)\right) + \sqrt{\color{blue}{c \cdot \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(a\right)\right)}}}{a} \]
              4. mul-1-negN/A

                \[\leadsto \frac{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(b\_2\right)\right) + \sqrt{c \cdot \color{blue}{\left(-1 \cdot a\right)}}}{a} \]
              5. lower-*.f64N/A

                \[\leadsto \frac{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(b\_2\right)\right) + \sqrt{\color{blue}{c \cdot \left(-1 \cdot a\right)}}}{a} \]
              6. mul-1-negN/A

                \[\leadsto \frac{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(b\_2\right)\right) + \sqrt{c \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(a\right)\right)}}}{a} \]
              7. lower-neg.f6463.1

                \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\_2\right) + \sqrt{c \cdot \color{blue}{\left(-a\right)}}}{a} \]
            6. Applied rewrites63.1%

              \[\leadsto \frac{\left(-b\_2\right) + \sqrt{\color{blue}{c \cdot \left(-a\right)}}}{a} \]
            7. Step-by-step derivation
              1. lift-+.f64N/A

                \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(b\_2\right)\right) + \sqrt{c \cdot \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(a\right)\right)}}}{a} \]
              2. +-commutativeN/A

                \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\sqrt{c \cdot \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(a\right)\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(b\_2\right)\right)}}{a} \]
              3. lift-neg.f64N/A

                \[\leadsto \frac{\sqrt{c \cdot \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(a\right)\right)} + \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(b\_2\right)\right)}}{a} \]
              4. unsub-negN/A

                \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\sqrt{c \cdot \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(a\right)\right)} - b\_2}}{a} \]
              5. lower--.f6463.1

                \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\sqrt{c \cdot \left(-a\right)} - b\_2}}{a} \]
            8. Applied rewrites63.1%

              \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\sqrt{a \cdot \left(-c\right)} - b\_2}}{a} \]

            if 6e-153 < b_2

            1. Initial program 22.2%

              \[\frac{\left(-b\_2\right) + \sqrt{b\_2 \cdot b\_2 - a \cdot c}}{a} \]
            2. Add Preprocessing
            3. Taylor expanded in b_2 around inf

              \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-1}{2} \cdot \frac{c}{b\_2}} \]
            4. Step-by-step derivation
              1. associate-*r/N/A

                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-1}{2} \cdot c}{b\_2}} \]
              2. *-commutativeN/A

                \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{c \cdot \frac{-1}{2}}}{b\_2} \]
              3. associate-/l*N/A

                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{c \cdot \frac{\frac{-1}{2}}{b\_2}} \]
              4. metadata-evalN/A

                \[\leadsto c \cdot \frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{2}\right)}}{b\_2} \]
              5. distribute-neg-fracN/A

                \[\leadsto c \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{b\_2}\right)\right)} \]
              6. metadata-evalN/A

                \[\leadsto c \cdot \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{2} \cdot 1}}{b\_2}\right)\right) \]
              7. associate-*r/N/A

                \[\leadsto c \cdot \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b\_2}}\right)\right) \]
              8. lower-*.f64N/A

                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{c \cdot \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b\_2}\right)\right)} \]
              9. associate-*r/N/A

                \[\leadsto c \cdot \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{2} \cdot 1}{b\_2}}\right)\right) \]
              10. metadata-evalN/A

                \[\leadsto c \cdot \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{2}}}{b\_2}\right)\right) \]
              11. distribute-neg-fracN/A

                \[\leadsto c \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{2}\right)}{b\_2}} \]
              12. metadata-evalN/A

                \[\leadsto c \cdot \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{-1}{2}}}{b\_2} \]
              13. lower-/.f6480.2

                \[\leadsto c \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{-0.5}{b\_2}} \]
            5. Applied rewrites80.2%

              \[\leadsto \color{blue}{c \cdot \frac{-0.5}{b\_2}} \]
            6. Taylor expanded in b_2 around inf

              \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-1}{2} \cdot \frac{c}{b\_2}} \]
            7. Step-by-step derivation
              1. associate-*r/N/A

                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-1}{2} \cdot c}{b\_2}} \]
              2. lower-/.f64N/A

                \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-1}{2} \cdot c}{b\_2}} \]
              3. *-commutativeN/A

                \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{c \cdot \frac{-1}{2}}}{b\_2} \]
              4. lower-*.f6480.4

                \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{c \cdot -0.5}}{b\_2} \]
            8. Applied rewrites80.4%

              \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{c \cdot -0.5}{b\_2}} \]
          4. Recombined 3 regimes into one program.
          5. Add Preprocessing

          Developer Target 1: 99.7% accurate, 0.2× speedup?

          \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := \sqrt{\left|a\right|} \cdot \sqrt{\left|c\right|}\\ t_1 := \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;\mathsf{copysign}\left(a, c\right) = a:\\ \;\;\;\;\sqrt{\left|b\_2\right| - t\_0} \cdot \sqrt{\left|b\_2\right| + t\_0}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{hypot}\left(b\_2, t\_0\right)\\ \end{array}\\ \mathbf{if}\;b\_2 < 0:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{t\_1 - b\_2}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b\_2 + t\_1}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]
          (FPCore (a b_2 c)
           :precision binary64
           (let* ((t_0 (* (sqrt (fabs a)) (sqrt (fabs c))))
                  (t_1
                   (if (== (copysign a c) a)
                     (* (sqrt (- (fabs b_2) t_0)) (sqrt (+ (fabs b_2) t_0)))
                     (hypot b_2 t_0))))
             (if (< b_2 0.0) (/ (- t_1 b_2) a) (/ (- c) (+ b_2 t_1)))))
          double code(double a, double b_2, double c) {
          	double t_0 = sqrt(fabs(a)) * sqrt(fabs(c));
          	double tmp;
          	if (copysign(a, c) == a) {
          		tmp = sqrt((fabs(b_2) - t_0)) * sqrt((fabs(b_2) + t_0));
          	} else {
          		tmp = hypot(b_2, t_0);
          	}
          	double t_1 = tmp;
          	double tmp_1;
          	if (b_2 < 0.0) {
          		tmp_1 = (t_1 - b_2) / a;
          	} else {
          		tmp_1 = -c / (b_2 + t_1);
          	}
          	return tmp_1;
          }
          
          public static double code(double a, double b_2, double c) {
          	double t_0 = Math.sqrt(Math.abs(a)) * Math.sqrt(Math.abs(c));
          	double tmp;
          	if (Math.copySign(a, c) == a) {
          		tmp = Math.sqrt((Math.abs(b_2) - t_0)) * Math.sqrt((Math.abs(b_2) + t_0));
          	} else {
          		tmp = Math.hypot(b_2, t_0);
          	}
          	double t_1 = tmp;
          	double tmp_1;
          	if (b_2 < 0.0) {
          		tmp_1 = (t_1 - b_2) / a;
          	} else {
          		tmp_1 = -c / (b_2 + t_1);
          	}
          	return tmp_1;
          }
          
          def code(a, b_2, c):
          	t_0 = math.sqrt(math.fabs(a)) * math.sqrt(math.fabs(c))
          	tmp = 0
          	if math.copysign(a, c) == a:
          		tmp = math.sqrt((math.fabs(b_2) - t_0)) * math.sqrt((math.fabs(b_2) + t_0))
          	else:
          		tmp = math.hypot(b_2, t_0)
          	t_1 = tmp
          	tmp_1 = 0
          	if b_2 < 0.0:
          		tmp_1 = (t_1 - b_2) / a
          	else:
          		tmp_1 = -c / (b_2 + t_1)
          	return tmp_1
          
          function code(a, b_2, c)
          	t_0 = Float64(sqrt(abs(a)) * sqrt(abs(c)))
          	tmp = 0.0
          	if (copysign(a, c) == a)
          		tmp = Float64(sqrt(Float64(abs(b_2) - t_0)) * sqrt(Float64(abs(b_2) + t_0)));
          	else
          		tmp = hypot(b_2, t_0);
          	end
          	t_1 = tmp
          	tmp_1 = 0.0
          	if (b_2 < 0.0)
          		tmp_1 = Float64(Float64(t_1 - b_2) / a);
          	else
          		tmp_1 = Float64(Float64(-c) / Float64(b_2 + t_1));
          	end
          	return tmp_1
          end
          
          function tmp_3 = code(a, b_2, c)
          	t_0 = sqrt(abs(a)) * sqrt(abs(c));
          	tmp = 0.0;
          	if ((sign(c) * abs(a)) == a)
          		tmp = sqrt((abs(b_2) - t_0)) * sqrt((abs(b_2) + t_0));
          	else
          		tmp = hypot(b_2, t_0);
          	end
          	t_1 = tmp;
          	tmp_2 = 0.0;
          	if (b_2 < 0.0)
          		tmp_2 = (t_1 - b_2) / a;
          	else
          		tmp_2 = -c / (b_2 + t_1);
          	end
          	tmp_3 = tmp_2;
          end
          
          code[a_, b$95$2_, c_] := Block[{t$95$0 = N[(N[Sqrt[N[Abs[a], $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] * N[Sqrt[N[Abs[c], $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]}, Block[{t$95$1 = If[Equal[N[With[{TMP1 = Abs[a], TMP2 = Sign[c]}, TMP1 * If[TMP2 == 0, 1, TMP2]], $MachinePrecision], a], N[(N[Sqrt[N[(N[Abs[b$95$2], $MachinePrecision] - t$95$0), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] * N[Sqrt[N[(N[Abs[b$95$2], $MachinePrecision] + t$95$0), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[Sqrt[b$95$2 ^ 2 + t$95$0 ^ 2], $MachinePrecision]]}, If[Less[b$95$2, 0.0], N[(N[(t$95$1 - b$95$2), $MachinePrecision] / a), $MachinePrecision], N[((-c) / N[(b$95$2 + t$95$1), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]]
          
          \begin{array}{l}
          
          \\
          \begin{array}{l}
          t_0 := \sqrt{\left|a\right|} \cdot \sqrt{\left|c\right|}\\
          t_1 := \begin{array}{l}
          \mathbf{if}\;\mathsf{copysign}\left(a, c\right) = a:\\
          \;\;\;\;\sqrt{\left|b\_2\right| - t\_0} \cdot \sqrt{\left|b\_2\right| + t\_0}\\
          
          \mathbf{else}:\\
          \;\;\;\;\mathsf{hypot}\left(b\_2, t\_0\right)\\
          
          
          \end{array}\\
          \mathbf{if}\;b\_2 < 0:\\
          \;\;\;\;\frac{t\_1 - b\_2}{a}\\
          
          \mathbf{else}:\\
          \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b\_2 + t\_1}\\
          
          
          \end{array}
          \end{array}
          

          Reproduce

          ?
          herbie shell --seed 2024227 
          (FPCore (a b_2 c)
            :name "quad2p (problem 3.2.1, 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_2 0) (/ (- sqtD b_2) a) (/ (- c) (+ b_2 sqtD)))))
          
            (/ (+ (- b_2) (sqrt (- (* b_2 b_2) (* a c)))) a))