Quadratic roots, full range

Percentage Accurate: 52.3% → 85.2%

Time: 6.2s

Alternatives: 8

Speedup: 2.5×

Specification

Math

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

FPCore

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

C

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

Fortran

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

Java

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

Python

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

Julia

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

MATLAB

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

Wolfram

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

Initial Program: 52.3% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

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

FPCore

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

C

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

Fortran

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

Java

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

Python

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

Julia

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

MATLAB

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

Wolfram

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

Alternative 1: 85.2% accurate, 0.8× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1 \cdot 10^{+138}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{c}{b}}{b}, b, \frac{-b}{a}\right)\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 8.2 \cdot 10^{-8}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(a \cdot 4\right) \cdot c} - b}{2 \cdot a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{\frac{a}{b} - \frac{b}{c}}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -1e+138)
   (fma (/ (/ c b) b) b (/ (- b) a))
   (if (<= b 8.2e-8)
     (/ (- (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* a 4.0) c))) b) (* 2.0 a))
     (/ 1.0 (- (/ a b) (/ b c))))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -1e+138) {
		tmp = fma(((c / b) / b), b, (-b / a));
	} else if (b <= 8.2e-8) {
		tmp = (sqrt(((b * b) - ((a * 4.0) * c))) - b) / (2.0 * a);
	} else {
		tmp = 1.0 / ((a / b) - (b / c));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -1e+138)
		tmp = fma(Float64(Float64(c / b) / b), b, Float64(Float64(-b) / a));
	elseif (b <= 8.2e-8)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(Float64(a * 4.0) * c))) - b) / Float64(2.0 * a));
	else
		tmp = Float64(1.0 / Float64(Float64(a / b) - Float64(b / c)));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -1e+138], N[(N[(N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] / b), $MachinePrecision] * b + N[((-b) / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 8.2e-8], N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(N[(a * 4.0), $MachinePrecision] * c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(2.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(1.0 / N[(N[(a / b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(b / c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -1e138

   1. Initial program 47.2%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in b around -inf

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

      1. mul-1-neg N/A

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

      2. distribute-rgt-in N/A

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

      3. distribute-neg-in N/A

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

      4. associate-*l/ N/A

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

      5. *-lft-identity N/A

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

      6. mul-1-neg N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{c}{{b}^{2}}\right)\right)} \cdot b\right)\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)\right) \]

      7. distribute-lft-neg-out N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{c}{{b}^{2}} \cdot b\right)\right)}\right)\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)\right) \]

      8. remove-double-neg N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{c}{{b}^{2}} \cdot b} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)\right) \]

      9. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      10. unpow2 N/A

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

      11. associate-/r* N/A

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{c}{b}}{b}}, b, \mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)\right) \]

      12. lower-/.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{c}{b}}{b}}, b, \mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)\right) \]

      13. lower-/.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\color{blue}{\frac{c}{b}}}{b}, b, \mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)\right) \]

      14. distribute-frac-neg N/A

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{c}{b}}{b}, b, \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{neg}\left(b\right)}{a}}\right) \]

      15. lower-/.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{c}{b}}{b}, b, \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{neg}\left(b\right)}{a}}\right) \]

      16. lower-neg.f64 90.0

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

   5. Applied rewrites 90.0%

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

   if -1e138 < b < 8.20000000000000063e-8

   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

   if 8.20000000000000063e-8 < b

   1. Initial program 11.6%

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

      1. lift-+.f64 N/A

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

      2. +-commutative N/A

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

      3. lift-neg.f64 N/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-neg N/A

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

      5. lower--.f64 11.6

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

      6. lift--.f64 N/A

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

      7. sub-neg N/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. +-commutative N/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-*.f64 N/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. lift-*.f64 N/A

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

      11. associate-*l* N/A

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

      12. distribute-lft-neg-in N/A

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

      13. *-commutative N/A

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

      14. associate-*r* N/A

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

      15. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      16. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      17. metadata-eval 11.6

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

   4. Applied rewrites 11.6%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in a around inf

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

      1. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      2. lower-*.f64 4.0

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

   7. Applied rewrites 4.0%

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

      1. lift-/.f64 N/A

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

      2. clear-num N/A

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

      3. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

      4. lower-/.f64 4.0

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

   9. Applied rewrites 4.0%

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

   10. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

       1. +-commutative N/A

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

       2. mul-1-neg N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{a}{b} + \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{b}{c}\right)\right)}} \]

       3. unsub-neg N/A

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

       4. lower--.f64 N/A

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

       5. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

       6. lower-/.f64 89.1

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

   12. Applied rewrites 89.1%

       \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{a}{b} - \frac{b}{c}}} \]
3. Recombined 3 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 85.8%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1 \cdot 10^{+138}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{c}{b}}{b}, b, \frac{-b}{a}\right)\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 8.2 \cdot 10^{-8}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(a \cdot 4\right) \cdot c} - b}{2 \cdot a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{\frac{a}{b} - \frac{b}{c}}\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 2: 85.2% accurate, 0.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1 \cdot 10^{+138}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{c}{b}}{b}, b, \frac{-b}{a}\right)\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 8.2 \cdot 10^{-8}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(-4 \cdot c, a, b \cdot b\right)} - b}{2 \cdot a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{\frac{a}{b} - \frac{b}{c}}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -1e+138)
   (fma (/ (/ c b) b) b (/ (- b) a))
   (if (<= b 8.2e-8)
     (/ (- (sqrt (fma (* -4.0 c) a (* b b))) b) (* 2.0 a))
     (/ 1.0 (- (/ a b) (/ b c))))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -1e+138) {
		tmp = fma(((c / b) / b), b, (-b / a));
	} else if (b <= 8.2e-8) {
		tmp = (sqrt(fma((-4.0 * c), a, (b * b))) - b) / (2.0 * a);
	} else {
		tmp = 1.0 / ((a / b) - (b / c));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -1e+138)
		tmp = fma(Float64(Float64(c / b) / b), b, Float64(Float64(-b) / a));
	elseif (b <= 8.2e-8)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(sqrt(fma(Float64(-4.0 * c), a, Float64(b * b))) - b) / Float64(2.0 * a));
	else
		tmp = Float64(1.0 / Float64(Float64(a / b) - Float64(b / c)));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -1e+138], N[(N[(N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] / b), $MachinePrecision] * b + N[((-b) / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 8.2e-8], N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(N[(-4.0 * c), $MachinePrecision] * a + N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(2.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(1.0 / N[(N[(a / b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(b / c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -1e138

   1. Initial program 47.2%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in b around -inf

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

      1. mul-1-neg N/A

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

      2. distribute-rgt-in N/A

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

      3. distribute-neg-in N/A

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

      4. associate-*l/ N/A

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

      5. *-lft-identity N/A

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

      6. mul-1-neg N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{c}{{b}^{2}}\right)\right)} \cdot b\right)\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)\right) \]

      7. distribute-lft-neg-out N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{c}{{b}^{2}} \cdot b\right)\right)}\right)\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)\right) \]

      8. remove-double-neg N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{c}{{b}^{2}} \cdot b} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)\right) \]

      9. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      10. unpow2 N/A

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

      11. associate-/r* N/A

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{c}{b}}{b}}, b, \mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)\right) \]

      12. lower-/.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{c}{b}}{b}}, b, \mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)\right) \]

      13. lower-/.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\color{blue}{\frac{c}{b}}}{b}, b, \mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)\right) \]

      14. distribute-frac-neg N/A

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{c}{b}}{b}, b, \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{neg}\left(b\right)}{a}}\right) \]

      15. lower-/.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{c}{b}}{b}, b, \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{neg}\left(b\right)}{a}}\right) \]

      16. lower-neg.f64 90.0

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

   5. Applied rewrites 90.0%

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

   if -1e138 < b < 8.20000000000000063e-8

   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-+.f64 N/A

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

      2. +-commutative N/A

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

      3. lift-neg.f64 N/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-neg N/A

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

      5. lower--.f64 82.5

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

      6. lift--.f64 N/A

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

      7. sub-neg N/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. +-commutative N/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-*.f64 N/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. lift-*.f64 N/A

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

      11. associate-*l* N/A

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

      12. distribute-lft-neg-in N/A

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

      13. *-commutative N/A

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

      14. associate-*r* N/A

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

      15. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      16. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      17. metadata-eval 82.5

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

   4. Applied rewrites 82.5%

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

   if 8.20000000000000063e-8 < b

   1. Initial program 11.6%

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

      1. lift-+.f64 N/A

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

      2. +-commutative N/A

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

      3. lift-neg.f64 N/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-neg N/A

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

      5. lower--.f64 11.6

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

      6. lift--.f64 N/A

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

      7. sub-neg N/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. +-commutative N/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-*.f64 N/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. lift-*.f64 N/A

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

      11. associate-*l* N/A

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

      12. distribute-lft-neg-in N/A

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

      13. *-commutative N/A

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

      14. associate-*r* N/A

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

      15. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      16. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      17. metadata-eval 11.6

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

   4. Applied rewrites 11.6%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in a around inf

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

      1. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      2. lower-*.f64 4.0

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

   7. Applied rewrites 4.0%

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

      1. lift-/.f64 N/A

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

      2. clear-num N/A

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

      3. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

      4. lower-/.f64 4.0

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

   9. Applied rewrites 4.0%

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

   10. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

       1. +-commutative N/A

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

       2. mul-1-neg N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{a}{b} + \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{b}{c}\right)\right)}} \]

       3. unsub-neg N/A

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

       4. lower--.f64 N/A

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

       5. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

       6. lower-/.f64 89.1

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

   12. Applied rewrites 89.1%

       \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{a}{b} - \frac{b}{c}}} \]
3. Recombined 3 regimes into one program.
4. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 3: 85.1% accurate, 0.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -4.5 \cdot 10^{+98}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{c}{b}}{b}, b, \frac{-b}{a}\right)\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 8.2 \cdot 10^{-8}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{0.5}{a} \cdot \left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(-4 \cdot c, a, b \cdot b\right)} - b\right)\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{\frac{a}{b} - \frac{b}{c}}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -4.5e+98)
   (fma (/ (/ c b) b) b (/ (- b) a))
   (if (<= b 8.2e-8)
     (* (/ 0.5 a) (- (sqrt (fma (* -4.0 c) a (* b b))) b))
     (/ 1.0 (- (/ a b) (/ b c))))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -4.5e+98) {
		tmp = fma(((c / b) / b), b, (-b / a));
	} else if (b <= 8.2e-8) {
		tmp = (0.5 / a) * (sqrt(fma((-4.0 * c), a, (b * b))) - b);
	} else {
		tmp = 1.0 / ((a / b) - (b / c));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -4.5e+98)
		tmp = fma(Float64(Float64(c / b) / b), b, Float64(Float64(-b) / a));
	elseif (b <= 8.2e-8)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(0.5 / a) * Float64(sqrt(fma(Float64(-4.0 * c), a, Float64(b * b))) - b));
	else
		tmp = Float64(1.0 / Float64(Float64(a / b) - Float64(b / c)));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -4.5e+98], N[(N[(N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] / b), $MachinePrecision] * b + N[((-b) / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 8.2e-8], N[(N[(0.5 / a), $MachinePrecision] * N[(N[Sqrt[N[(N[(-4.0 * c), $MachinePrecision] * a + N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(1.0 / N[(N[(a / b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(b / c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -4.5000000000000002e98

   1. Initial program 56.8%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in b around -inf

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

      1. mul-1-neg N/A

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

      2. distribute-rgt-in N/A

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

      3. distribute-neg-in N/A

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

      4. associate-*l/ N/A

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

      5. *-lft-identity N/A

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

      6. mul-1-neg N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{c}{{b}^{2}}\right)\right)} \cdot b\right)\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)\right) \]

      7. distribute-lft-neg-out N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{c}{{b}^{2}} \cdot b\right)\right)}\right)\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)\right) \]

      8. remove-double-neg N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{c}{{b}^{2}} \cdot b} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)\right) \]

      9. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      10. unpow2 N/A

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

      11. associate-/r* N/A

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{c}{b}}{b}}, b, \mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)\right) \]

      12. lower-/.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{c}{b}}{b}}, b, \mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)\right) \]

      13. lower-/.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\color{blue}{\frac{c}{b}}}{b}, b, \mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)\right) \]

      14. distribute-frac-neg N/A

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{c}{b}}{b}, b, \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{neg}\left(b\right)}{a}}\right) \]

      15. lower-/.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{c}{b}}{b}, b, \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{neg}\left(b\right)}{a}}\right) \]

      16. lower-neg.f64 91.8

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

   5. Applied rewrites 91.8%

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

   if -4.5000000000000002e98 < b < 8.20000000000000063e-8

   1. Initial program 81.1%

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

      1. lift-/.f64 N/A

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

      2. clear-num N/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-*.f64 N/A

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

      5. lift-*.f64 N/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-eval N/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-/.f64 81.0

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

      9. lift-+.f64 N/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. +-commutative N/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.f64 N/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-neg N/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--.f64 81.0

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

   4. Applied rewrites 81.0%

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

   if 8.20000000000000063e-8 < b

   1. Initial program 11.6%

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

      1. lift-+.f64 N/A

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

      2. +-commutative N/A

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

      3. lift-neg.f64 N/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-neg N/A

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

      5. lower--.f64 11.6

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

      6. lift--.f64 N/A

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

      7. sub-neg N/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. +-commutative N/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-*.f64 N/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. lift-*.f64 N/A

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

      11. associate-*l* N/A

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

      12. distribute-lft-neg-in N/A

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

      13. *-commutative N/A

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

      14. associate-*r* N/A

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

      15. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      16. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      17. metadata-eval 11.6

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

   4. Applied rewrites 11.6%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in a around inf

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

      1. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      2. lower-*.f64 4.0

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

   7. Applied rewrites 4.0%

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

      1. lift-/.f64 N/A

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

      2. clear-num N/A

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

      3. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

      4. lower-/.f64 4.0

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

   9. Applied rewrites 4.0%

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

   10. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

       1. +-commutative N/A

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

       2. mul-1-neg N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{a}{b} + \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{b}{c}\right)\right)}} \]

       3. unsub-neg N/A

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

       4. lower--.f64 N/A

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

       5. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

       6. lower-/.f64 89.1

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

   12. Applied rewrites 89.1%

       \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{a}{b} - \frac{b}{c}}} \]
3. Recombined 3 regimes into one program.
4. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 4: 79.9% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -5.5 \cdot 10^{-98}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{c}{b}}{b}, b, \frac{-b}{a}\right)\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 8.2 \cdot 10^{-8}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\sqrt{\left(c \cdot a\right) \cdot -4} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{\frac{a}{b} - \frac{b}{c}}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -5.5e-98)
   (fma (/ (/ c b) b) b (/ (- b) a))
   (if (<= b 8.2e-8)
     (* (- (sqrt (* (* c a) -4.0)) b) (/ 0.5 a))
     (/ 1.0 (- (/ a b) (/ b c))))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -5.5e-98) {
		tmp = fma(((c / b) / b), b, (-b / a));
	} else if (b <= 8.2e-8) {
		tmp = (sqrt(((c * a) * -4.0)) - b) * (0.5 / a);
	} else {
		tmp = 1.0 / ((a / b) - (b / c));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -5.5e-98)
		tmp = fma(Float64(Float64(c / b) / b), b, Float64(Float64(-b) / a));
	elseif (b <= 8.2e-8)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(sqrt(Float64(Float64(c * a) * -4.0)) - b) * Float64(0.5 / a));
	else
		tmp = Float64(1.0 / Float64(Float64(a / b) - Float64(b / c)));
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -5.5e-98], N[(N[(N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] / b), $MachinePrecision] * b + N[((-b) / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 8.2e-8], N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(N[(c * a), $MachinePrecision] * -4.0), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] * N[(0.5 / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(1.0 / N[(N[(a / b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(b / c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -5.4999999999999997e-98

   1. Initial program 73.8%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in b around -inf

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

      1. mul-1-neg N/A

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

      2. distribute-rgt-in N/A

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

      3. distribute-neg-in N/A

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

      4. associate-*l/ N/A

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

      5. *-lft-identity N/A

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

      6. mul-1-neg N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{c}{{b}^{2}}\right)\right)} \cdot b\right)\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)\right) \]

      7. distribute-lft-neg-out N/A

         \[\leadsto \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{c}{{b}^{2}} \cdot b\right)\right)}\right)\right) + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)\right) \]

      8. remove-double-neg N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{c}{{b}^{2}} \cdot b} + \left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)\right) \]

      9. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      10. unpow2 N/A

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

      11. associate-/r* N/A

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{c}{b}}{b}}, b, \mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)\right) \]

      12. lower-/.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{c}{b}}{b}}, b, \mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)\right) \]

      13. lower-/.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\color{blue}{\frac{c}{b}}}{b}, b, \mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{b}{a}\right)\right) \]

      14. distribute-frac-neg N/A

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{c}{b}}{b}, b, \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{neg}\left(b\right)}{a}}\right) \]

      15. lower-/.f64 N/A

          \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{c}{b}}{b}, b, \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{neg}\left(b\right)}{a}}\right) \]

      16. lower-neg.f64 85.5

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

   5. Applied rewrites 85.5%

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

   if -5.4999999999999997e-98 < b < 8.20000000000000063e-8

   1. Initial program 73.3%

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

      1. lift-+.f64 N/A

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

      2. +-commutative N/A

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

      3. lift-neg.f64 N/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-neg N/A

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

      5. lower--.f64 73.3

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

      6. lift--.f64 N/A

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

      7. sub-neg N/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. +-commutative N/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-*.f64 N/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. lift-*.f64 N/A

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

      11. associate-*l* N/A

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

      12. distribute-lft-neg-in N/A

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

      13. *-commutative N/A

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

      14. associate-*r* N/A

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

      15. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      16. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      17. metadata-eval 73.3

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

   4. Applied rewrites 73.3%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in a around inf

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

      1. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      2. lower-*.f64 73.1

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

   7. Applied rewrites 73.1%

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

      1. lift-/.f64 N/A

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

      2. clear-num N/A

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

      3. associate-/r/ N/A

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

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      5. lift-*.f64 N/A

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

      6. associate-/r* N/A

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

      7. metadata-eval N/A

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

      8. lift-/.f64 73.1

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

   9. Applied rewrites 73.1%

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

   if 8.20000000000000063e-8 < b

   1. Initial program 11.6%

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

      1. lift-+.f64 N/A

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

      2. +-commutative N/A

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

      3. lift-neg.f64 N/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-neg N/A

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

      5. lower--.f64 11.6

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

      6. lift--.f64 N/A

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

      7. sub-neg N/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. +-commutative N/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-*.f64 N/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. lift-*.f64 N/A

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

      11. associate-*l* N/A

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

      12. distribute-lft-neg-in N/A

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

      13. *-commutative N/A

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

      14. associate-*r* N/A

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

      15. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      16. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      17. metadata-eval 11.6

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

   4. Applied rewrites 11.6%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in a around inf

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

      1. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      2. lower-*.f64 4.0

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

   7. Applied rewrites 4.0%

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

      1. lift-/.f64 N/A

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

      2. clear-num N/A

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

      3. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

      4. lower-/.f64 4.0

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

   9. Applied rewrites 4.0%

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

   10. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

       1. +-commutative N/A

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

       2. mul-1-neg N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{a}{b} + \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{b}{c}\right)\right)}} \]

       3. unsub-neg N/A

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

       4. lower--.f64 N/A

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

       5. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

       6. lower-/.f64 89.1

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

   12. Applied rewrites 89.1%

       \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{a}{b} - \frac{b}{c}}} \]
3. Recombined 3 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 82.9%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -5.5 \cdot 10^{-98}:\\ \;\;\;\;\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{c}{b}}{b}, b, \frac{-b}{a}\right)\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 8.2 \cdot 10^{-8}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\sqrt{\left(c \cdot a\right) \cdot -4} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{\frac{a}{b} - \frac{b}{c}}\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 5: 79.8% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -5.5 \cdot 10^{-98}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\frac{c}{b \cdot b} - \frac{1}{a}\right) \cdot b\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 8.2 \cdot 10^{-8}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\sqrt{\left(c \cdot a\right) \cdot -4} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{\frac{a}{b} - \frac{b}{c}}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -5.5e-98)
   (* (- (/ c (* b b)) (/ 1.0 a)) b)
   (if (<= b 8.2e-8)
     (* (- (sqrt (* (* c a) -4.0)) b) (/ 0.5 a))
     (/ 1.0 (- (/ a b) (/ b c))))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -5.5e-98) {
		tmp = ((c / (b * b)) - (1.0 / a)) * b;
	} else if (b <= 8.2e-8) {
		tmp = (sqrt(((c * a) * -4.0)) - b) * (0.5 / a);
	} else {
		tmp = 1.0 / ((a / b) - (b / c));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b, c)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8), intent (in) :: c
    real(8) :: tmp
    if (b <= (-5.5d-98)) then
        tmp = ((c / (b * b)) - (1.0d0 / a)) * b
    else if (b <= 8.2d-8) then
        tmp = (sqrt(((c * a) * (-4.0d0))) - b) * (0.5d0 / a)
    else
        tmp = 1.0d0 / ((a / b) - (b / c))
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -5.5e-98) {
		tmp = ((c / (b * b)) - (1.0 / a)) * b;
	} else if (b <= 8.2e-8) {
		tmp = (Math.sqrt(((c * a) * -4.0)) - b) * (0.5 / a);
	} else {
		tmp = 1.0 / ((a / b) - (b / c));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -5.5e-98:
		tmp = ((c / (b * b)) - (1.0 / a)) * b
	elif b <= 8.2e-8:
		tmp = (math.sqrt(((c * a) * -4.0)) - b) * (0.5 / a)
	else:
		tmp = 1.0 / ((a / b) - (b / c))
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -5.5e-98)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(Float64(c / Float64(b * b)) - Float64(1.0 / a)) * b);
	elseif (b <= 8.2e-8)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(sqrt(Float64(Float64(c * a) * -4.0)) - b) * Float64(0.5 / a));
	else
		tmp = Float64(1.0 / Float64(Float64(a / b) - Float64(b / c)));
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= -5.5e-98)
		tmp = ((c / (b * b)) - (1.0 / a)) * b;
	elseif (b <= 8.2e-8)
		tmp = (sqrt(((c * a) * -4.0)) - b) * (0.5 / a);
	else
		tmp = 1.0 / ((a / b) - (b / c));
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -5.5e-98], N[(N[(N[(c / N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] - N[(1.0 / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * b), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 8.2e-8], N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(N[(c * a), $MachinePrecision] * -4.0), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] * N[(0.5 / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(1.0 / N[(N[(a / b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(b / c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -5.4999999999999997e-98

   1. Initial program 73.8%

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

      1. lift-+.f64 N/A

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

      2. +-commutative N/A

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

      3. lift-neg.f64 N/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-neg N/A

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

      5. lower--.f64 73.8

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

      6. lift--.f64 N/A

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

      7. sub-neg N/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. +-commutative N/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-*.f64 N/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. lift-*.f64 N/A

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

      11. associate-*l* N/A

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

      12. distribute-lft-neg-in N/A

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

      13. *-commutative N/A

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

      14. associate-*r* N/A

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

      15. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      16. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      17. metadata-eval 73.9

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

   4. Applied rewrites 73.9%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in b around -inf

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

      1. associate-*r* N/A

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

      2. mul-1-neg N/A

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

      3. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      4. lower-neg.f64 N/A

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

      5. +-commutative N/A

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

      6. mul-1-neg N/A

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

      7. unsub-neg N/A

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

      8. lower--.f64 N/A

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

      9. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

      10. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

      11. unpow2 N/A

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

      12. lower-*.f64 85.3

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

   7. Applied rewrites 85.3%

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

   if -5.4999999999999997e-98 < b < 8.20000000000000063e-8

   1. Initial program 73.3%

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

      1. lift-+.f64 N/A

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

      2. +-commutative N/A

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

      3. lift-neg.f64 N/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-neg N/A

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

      5. lower--.f64 73.3

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

      6. lift--.f64 N/A

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

      7. sub-neg N/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. +-commutative N/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-*.f64 N/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. lift-*.f64 N/A

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

      11. associate-*l* N/A

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

      12. distribute-lft-neg-in N/A

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

      13. *-commutative N/A

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

      14. associate-*r* N/A

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

      15. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      16. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      17. metadata-eval 73.3

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

   4. Applied rewrites 73.3%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in a around inf

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

      1. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      2. lower-*.f64 73.1

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

   7. Applied rewrites 73.1%

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

      1. lift-/.f64 N/A

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

      2. clear-num N/A

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

      3. associate-/r/ N/A

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

      4. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      5. lift-*.f64 N/A

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

      6. associate-/r* N/A

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

      7. metadata-eval N/A

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

      8. lift-/.f64 73.1

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

   9. Applied rewrites 73.1%

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

   if 8.20000000000000063e-8 < b

   1. Initial program 11.6%

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

      1. lift-+.f64 N/A

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

      2. +-commutative N/A

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

      3. lift-neg.f64 N/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-neg N/A

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

      5. lower--.f64 11.6

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

      6. lift--.f64 N/A

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

      7. sub-neg N/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. +-commutative N/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-*.f64 N/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. lift-*.f64 N/A

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

      11. associate-*l* N/A

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

      12. distribute-lft-neg-in N/A

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

      13. *-commutative N/A

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

      14. associate-*r* N/A

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

      15. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      16. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      17. metadata-eval 11.6

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

   4. Applied rewrites 11.6%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in a around inf

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

      1. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      2. lower-*.f64 4.0

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

   7. Applied rewrites 4.0%

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

      1. lift-/.f64 N/A

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

      2. clear-num N/A

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

      3. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

      4. lower-/.f64 4.0

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

   9. Applied rewrites 4.0%

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

   10. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

       1. +-commutative N/A

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

       2. mul-1-neg N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{a}{b} + \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{b}{c}\right)\right)}} \]

       3. unsub-neg N/A

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

       4. lower--.f64 N/A

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

       5. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

       6. lower-/.f64 89.1

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

   12. Applied rewrites 89.1%

       \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{a}{b} - \frac{b}{c}}} \]
3. Recombined 3 regimes into one program.

4. Final simplification 82.8%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -5.5 \cdot 10^{-98}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\frac{c}{b \cdot b} - \frac{1}{a}\right) \cdot b\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 8.2 \cdot 10^{-8}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\sqrt{\left(c \cdot a\right) \cdot -4} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{\frac{a}{b} - \frac{b}{c}}\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 6: 67.8% accurate, 1.2× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -7.2 \cdot 10^{-305}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-b}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{1}{\frac{a}{b} - \frac{b}{c}}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -7.2e-305) (/ (- b) a) (/ 1.0 (- (/ a b) (/ b c)))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -7.2e-305) {
		tmp = -b / a;
	} else {
		tmp = 1.0 / ((a / b) - (b / c));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b, c)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8), intent (in) :: c
    real(8) :: tmp
    if (b <= (-7.2d-305)) then
        tmp = -b / a
    else
        tmp = 1.0d0 / ((a / b) - (b / c))
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -7.2e-305) {
		tmp = -b / a;
	} else {
		tmp = 1.0 / ((a / b) - (b / c));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -7.2e-305:
		tmp = -b / a
	else:
		tmp = 1.0 / ((a / b) - (b / c))
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -7.2e-305)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-b) / a);
	else
		tmp = Float64(1.0 / Float64(Float64(a / b) - Float64(b / c)));
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= -7.2e-305)
		tmp = -b / a;
	else
		tmp = 1.0 / ((a / b) - (b / c));
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -7.2e-305], N[((-b) / a), $MachinePrecision], N[(1.0 / N[(N[(a / b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(b / c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < -7.20000000000000007e-305

   1. Initial program 75.4%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in b around -inf

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

      1. associate-*r/ N/A

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

      2. mul-1-neg N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{neg}\left(b\right)}}{a} \]

      3. lower-/.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{neg}\left(b\right)}{a}} \]

      4. lower-neg.f64 67.3

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

   5. Applied rewrites 67.3%

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

   if -7.20000000000000007e-305 < b

   1. Initial program 32.6%

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

      1. lift-+.f64 N/A

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

      2. +-commutative N/A

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

      3. lift-neg.f64 N/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-neg N/A

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

      5. lower--.f64 32.6

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

      6. lift--.f64 N/A

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

      7. sub-neg N/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. +-commutative N/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-*.f64 N/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. lift-*.f64 N/A

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

      11. associate-*l* N/A

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

      12. distribute-lft-neg-in N/A

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

      13. *-commutative N/A

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

      14. associate-*r* N/A

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

      15. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      16. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      17. metadata-eval 32.6

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

   4. Applied rewrites 32.6%

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

   5. Taylor expanded in a around inf

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

      1. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      2. lower-*.f64 27.7

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

   7. Applied rewrites 27.7%

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

      1. lift-/.f64 N/A

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

      2. clear-num N/A

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

      3. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

      4. lower-/.f64 27.6

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

   9. Applied rewrites 27.6%

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

   10. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

       1. +-commutative N/A

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

       2. mul-1-neg N/A

          \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\frac{a}{b} + \color{blue}{\left(\mathsf{neg}\left(\frac{b}{c}\right)\right)}} \]

       3. unsub-neg N/A

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

       4. lower--.f64 N/A

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

       5. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

       6. lower-/.f64 64.8

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

   12. Applied rewrites 64.8%

       \[\leadsto \frac{1}{\color{blue}{\frac{a}{b} - \frac{b}{c}}} \]
3. Recombined 2 regimes into one program.
4. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 7: 68.0% accurate, 2.5× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 5 \cdot 10^{-304}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-b}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c) :precision binary64 (if (<= b 5e-304) (/ (- b) a) (/ (- c) b)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 5e-304) {
		tmp = -b / a;
	} else {
		tmp = -c / b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b, c)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8), intent (in) :: c
    real(8) :: tmp
    if (b <= 5d-304) then
        tmp = -b / a
    else
        tmp = -c / b
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 5e-304) {
		tmp = -b / a;
	} else {
		tmp = -c / b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= 5e-304:
		tmp = -b / a
	else:
		tmp = -c / b
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= 5e-304)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-b) / a);
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-c) / b);
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= 5e-304)
		tmp = -b / a;
	else
		tmp = -c / b;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, 5e-304], N[((-b) / a), $MachinePrecision], N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < 4.99999999999999965e-304

   1. Initial program 75.1%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in b around -inf

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

      1. associate-*r/ N/A

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

      2. mul-1-neg N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{neg}\left(b\right)}}{a} \]

      3. lower-/.f64 N/A

         \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{neg}\left(b\right)}{a}} \]

      4. lower-neg.f64 66.4

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

   5. Applied rewrites 66.4%

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

   if 4.99999999999999965e-304 < b

   1. Initial program 32.3%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a 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-/.f64 N/A

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

      3. mul-1-neg N/A

         \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{neg}\left(c\right)}}{b} \]

      4. lower-neg.f64 65.6

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

   5. Applied rewrites 65.6%

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

Alternative 8: 35.6% accurate, 3.6× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{-b}{a} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c) :precision binary64 (/ (- b) a))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return -b / a;
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b, c)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8), intent (in) :: c
    code = -b / a
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return -b / a;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	return -b / a

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	return Float64(Float64(-b) / a)
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = -b / a;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := N[((-b) / a), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 54.7%

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

3. Taylor expanded in b around -inf

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

   1. associate-*r/ N/A

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

   2. mul-1-neg N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{neg}\left(b\right)}}{a} \]

   3. lower-/.f64 N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{neg}\left(b\right)}{a}} \]

   4. lower-neg.f64 36.1

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

5. Applied rewrites 36.1%

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

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2024304 
(FPCore (a b c)
  :name "Quadratic roots, full range"
  :precision binary64
  (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 4.0 a) c)))) (* 2.0 a)))