Quadratic roots, narrow range

Percentage Accurate: 55.5% → 99.6%
Time: 9.9s
Alternatives: 5
Speedup: 3.6×

Specification

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\[\left(\left(1.0536712127723509 \cdot 10^{-8} < a \land a < 94906265.62425156\right) \land \left(1.0536712127723509 \cdot 10^{-8} < b \land b < 94906265.62425156\right)\right) \land \left(1.0536712127723509 \cdot 10^{-8} < c \land c < 94906265.62425156\right)\]
\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \end{array} \]
(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: 55.5% 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: 99.6% accurate, 1.0× speedup?

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

\\
\frac{c \cdot 2}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(-4 \cdot a, c, b \cdot b\right)}}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 54.1%

    \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
  2. Add Preprocessing
  3. Applied rewrites54.1%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{{a}^{-1}}{\frac{-2}{b - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(-4 \cdot c, a, b \cdot b\right)}}}} \]
  4. Applied rewrites55.5%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{{\left(\frac{2 \cdot a}{b \cdot b - \mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot c, -4, b \cdot b\right)}\right)}^{-1} \cdot {\left(\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot c, -4, b \cdot b\right)}\right)}^{-1}} \]
  5. Taylor expanded in c around 0

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

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(2 \cdot c\right)} \cdot {\left(\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot c, -4, b \cdot b\right)}\right)}^{-1} \]
  7. Applied rewrites99.4%

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

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

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

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

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{2 \cdot c}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot c, -4, b \cdot b\right)}}} \]
    5. lower-/.f6499.6

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

      \[\leadsto \frac{2 \cdot c}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\color{blue}{\left(-4 \cdot c\right) \cdot a} + b \cdot b}} \]
  9. Applied rewrites99.6%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{2 \cdot c}{\left(-b\right) - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(-4 \cdot a, c, b \cdot b\right)}}} \]
  10. Final simplification99.6%

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

Alternative 2: 85.1% accurate, 1.0× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 5:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(-4 \cdot c, a, b \cdot b\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{0.5}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{a}{b}, 0.5, -0.5 \cdot \frac{b}{c}\right)}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b 5.0)
   (* (- (sqrt (fma (* -4.0 c) a (* b b))) b) (/ 0.5 a))
   (/ 0.5 (fma (/ a b) 0.5 (* -0.5 (/ b c))))))
double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 5.0) {
		tmp = (sqrt(fma((-4.0 * c), a, (b * b))) - b) * (0.5 / a);
	} else {
		tmp = 0.5 / fma((a / b), 0.5, (-0.5 * (b / c)));
	}
	return tmp;
}
function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= 5.0)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(sqrt(fma(Float64(-4.0 * c), a, Float64(b * b))) - b) * Float64(0.5 / a));
	else
		tmp = Float64(0.5 / fma(Float64(a / b), 0.5, Float64(-0.5 * Float64(b / c))));
	end
	return tmp
end
code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, 5.0], N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(N[(-4.0 * c), $MachinePrecision] * a + N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] * N[(0.5 / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(0.5 / N[(N[(a / b), $MachinePrecision] * 0.5 + N[(-0.5 * N[(b / c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\begin{array}{l}
\mathbf{if}\;b \leq 5:\\
\;\;\;\;\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(-4 \cdot c, a, b \cdot b\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{a}\\

\mathbf{else}:\\
\;\;\;\;\frac{0.5}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{a}{b}, 0.5, -0.5 \cdot \frac{b}{c}\right)}\\


\end{array}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Split input into 2 regimes
  2. if b < 5

    1. Initial program 82.5%

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

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

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

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

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{1}{2 \cdot a} \cdot \left(\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}\right)} \]
      5. lift-*.f64N/A

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

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{a}} \cdot \left(\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}\right) \]
      7. metadata-evalN/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{1}{2}}}{a} \cdot \left(\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}\right) \]
      8. lower-/.f6482.5

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{0.5}{a}} \cdot \left(\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}\right) \]
      9. lift-+.f64N/A

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

        \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{a} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} + \left(-b\right)\right)} \]
      11. lift-neg.f64N/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{a} \cdot \left(\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} + \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(b\right)\right)}\right) \]
      12. unsub-negN/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{a} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b\right)} \]
      13. lower--.f6482.5

        \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \color{blue}{\left(\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b\right)} \]
    4. Applied rewrites82.5%

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

    if 5 < b

    1. Initial program 48.1%

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

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

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

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

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

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\frac{a}{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}}} \]
      6. metadata-evalN/A

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

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\frac{a}{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}}} \]
      8. lower-/.f6448.1

        \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{\color{blue}{\frac{a}{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}}} \]
      9. lift-+.f64N/A

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

        \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\frac{a}{\color{blue}{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} + \left(-b\right)}}} \]
      11. lift-neg.f64N/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\frac{a}{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} + \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(b\right)\right)}}} \]
      12. unsub-negN/A

        \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\frac{a}{\color{blue}{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b}}} \]
      13. lower--.f6448.1

        \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{\frac{a}{\color{blue}{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b}}} \]
    4. Applied rewrites48.1%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

        \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{a}{b}, \frac{1}{2}, \color{blue}{\frac{b}{c} \cdot \frac{-1}{2}}\right)} \]
      7. lower-/.f6488.0

        \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{a}{b}, 0.5, \color{blue}{\frac{b}{c}} \cdot -0.5\right)} \]
    7. Applied rewrites88.0%

      \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{a}{b}, 0.5, \frac{b}{c} \cdot -0.5\right)}} \]
  3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
  4. Final simplification87.1%

    \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 5:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(-4 \cdot c, a, b \cdot b\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{0.5}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{a}{b}, 0.5, -0.5 \cdot \frac{b}{c}\right)}\\ \end{array} \]
  5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 3: 81.9% accurate, 1.1× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{0.5}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{a}{b}, 0.5, -0.5 \cdot \frac{b}{c}\right)} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b c) :precision binary64 (/ 0.5 (fma (/ a b) 0.5 (* -0.5 (/ b c)))))
double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return 0.5 / fma((a / b), 0.5, (-0.5 * (b / c)));
}
function code(a, b, c)
	return Float64(0.5 / fma(Float64(a / b), 0.5, Float64(-0.5 * Float64(b / c))))
end
code[a_, b_, c_] := N[(0.5 / N[(N[(a / b), $MachinePrecision] * 0.5 + N[(-0.5 * N[(b / c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\frac{0.5}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{a}{b}, 0.5, -0.5 \cdot \frac{b}{c}\right)}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 54.1%

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

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

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

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

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

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\frac{a}{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}}} \]
    6. metadata-evalN/A

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

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\frac{a}{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}}} \]
    8. lower-/.f6454.2

      \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{\color{blue}{\frac{a}{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}}} \]
    9. lift-+.f64N/A

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

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\frac{a}{\color{blue}{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} + \left(-b\right)}}} \]
    11. lift-neg.f64N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\frac{a}{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} + \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(b\right)\right)}}} \]
    12. unsub-negN/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\frac{a}{\color{blue}{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b}}} \]
    13. lower--.f6454.2

      \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{\frac{a}{\color{blue}{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b}}} \]
  4. Applied rewrites54.2%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{a}{b}, \frac{1}{2}, \color{blue}{\frac{b}{c} \cdot \frac{-1}{2}}\right)} \]
    7. lower-/.f6483.3

      \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{a}{b}, 0.5, \color{blue}{\frac{b}{c}} \cdot -0.5\right)} \]
  7. Applied rewrites83.3%

    \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{a}{b}, 0.5, \frac{b}{c} \cdot -0.5\right)}} \]
  8. Final simplification83.3%

    \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{a}{b}, 0.5, -0.5 \cdot \frac{b}{c}\right)} \]
  9. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 4: 81.2% accurate, 1.2× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{-1 - \frac{c \cdot a}{b \cdot b}}{b} \cdot c \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b c) :precision binary64 (* (/ (- -1.0 (/ (* c a) (* b b))) b) c))
double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return ((-1.0 - ((c * a) / (b * b))) / b) * c;
}
real(8) function code(a, b, c)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8), intent (in) :: c
    code = (((-1.0d0) - ((c * a) / (b * b))) / b) * c
end function
public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return ((-1.0 - ((c * a) / (b * b))) / b) * c;
}
def code(a, b, c):
	return ((-1.0 - ((c * a) / (b * b))) / b) * c
function code(a, b, c)
	return Float64(Float64(Float64(-1.0 - Float64(Float64(c * a) / Float64(b * b))) / b) * c)
end
function tmp = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = ((-1.0 - ((c * a) / (b * b))) / b) * c;
end
code[a_, b_, c_] := N[(N[(N[(-1.0 - N[(N[(c * a), $MachinePrecision] / N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / b), $MachinePrecision] * c), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\frac{-1 - \frac{c \cdot a}{b \cdot b}}{b} \cdot c
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 54.1%

    \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
  2. Add Preprocessing
  3. Applied rewrites54.1%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{{a}^{-1}}{\frac{-2}{b - \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(-4 \cdot c, a, b \cdot b\right)}}}} \]
  4. Taylor expanded in c around 0

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{c \cdot \left(-1 \cdot \frac{a \cdot c}{{b}^{3}} - \frac{1}{b}\right)} \]
  5. Step-by-step derivation
    1. *-commutativeN/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(-1 \cdot \frac{a \cdot c}{{b}^{3}} - \frac{1}{b}\right) \cdot c} \]
    2. sub-negN/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(-1 \cdot \frac{a \cdot c}{{b}^{3}} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{b}\right)\right)\right)} \cdot c \]
    3. mul-1-negN/A

      \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{a \cdot c}{{b}^{3}}\right)\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{b}\right)\right)\right) \cdot c \]
    4. associate-/l*N/A

      \[\leadsto \left(\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{a \cdot \frac{c}{{b}^{3}}}\right)\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{b}\right)\right)\right) \cdot c \]
    5. distribute-rgt-neg-inN/A

      \[\leadsto \left(\color{blue}{a \cdot \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{c}{{b}^{3}}\right)\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{b}\right)\right)\right) \cdot c \]
    6. mul-1-negN/A

      \[\leadsto \left(a \cdot \color{blue}{\left(-1 \cdot \frac{c}{{b}^{3}}\right)} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{b}\right)\right)\right) \cdot c \]
    7. metadata-evalN/A

      \[\leadsto \left(a \cdot \left(\color{blue}{\left(-2 + 1\right)} \cdot \frac{c}{{b}^{3}}\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{1}{b}\right)\right)\right) \cdot c \]
    8. distribute-lft1-inN/A

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

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

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

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(a \cdot \left(-2 \cdot \frac{c}{{b}^{3}} + \frac{c}{{b}^{3}}\right) + \frac{-1}{b}\right) \cdot c} \]
  6. Applied rewrites82.5%

    \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(-\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{c}{{b}^{3}}, a, \frac{1}{b}\right)\right) \cdot c} \]
  7. Step-by-step derivation
    1. Applied rewrites82.5%

      \[\leadsto \frac{-1 - \frac{c \cdot a}{b \cdot b}}{b} \cdot c \]
    2. Add Preprocessing

    Alternative 5: 64.3% 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(Float64(-c) / 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 54.1%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
    2. Add Preprocessing
    3. Taylor expanded in c around 0

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

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

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

        \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{neg}\left(c\right)}}{b} \]
      4. lower-neg.f6465.5

        \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{-c}}{b} \]
    5. Applied rewrites65.5%

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

    Reproduce

    ?
    herbie shell --seed 2024248 
    (FPCore (a b c)
      :name "Quadratic roots, 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) (* (* 4.0 a) c)))) (* 2.0 a)))