Cubic critical, wide range

Percentage Accurate: 17.5% → 97.8%

Time: 11.2s

Alternatives: 7

Speedup: 2.9×

Specification

\[\left(\left(4.930380657631324 \cdot 10^{-32} < a \land a < 2.028240960365167 \cdot 10^{+31}\right) \land \left(4.930380657631324 \cdot 10^{-32} < b \land b < 2.028240960365167 \cdot 10^{+31}\right)\right) \land \left(4.930380657631324 \cdot 10^{-32} < c \land c < 2.028240960365167 \cdot 10^{+31}\right)\]

Math

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

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 3.0 a) c)))) (* 3.0 a)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c)))) / (3.0 * 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) - ((3.0d0 * a) * c)))) / (3.0d0 * a)
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (-b + Math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c)))) / (3.0 * a);
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	return (-b + math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c)))) / (3.0 * a)

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	return Float64(Float64(Float64(-b) + sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(Float64(3.0 * a) * c)))) / Float64(3.0 * a))
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c)))) / (3.0 * a);
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := N[(N[((-b) + N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(N[(3.0 * a), $MachinePrecision] * c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(3.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]

Initial Program: 17.5% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

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

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 3.0 a) c)))) (* 3.0 a)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c)))) / (3.0 * 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) - ((3.0d0 * a) * c)))) / (3.0d0 * a)
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (-b + Math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c)))) / (3.0 * a);
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	return (-b + math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c)))) / (3.0 * a)

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	return Float64(Float64(Float64(-b) + sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(Float64(3.0 * a) * c)))) / Float64(3.0 * a))
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((3.0 * a) * c)))) / (3.0 * a);
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := N[(N[((-b) + N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(N[(3.0 * a), $MachinePrecision] * c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(3.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]

Alternative 1: 97.8% accurate, 0.1× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(-1.0546875 \cdot {c}^{4}, a, \left(-0.5625 \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right)\right) \cdot {c}^{3}\right)}{{b}^{7}}, a, \frac{-0.375 \cdot \left(c \cdot c\right)}{{b}^{3}}\right), a, -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right) \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (fma
  (fma
   (/
    (fma (* -1.0546875 (pow c 4.0)) a (* (* -0.5625 (* b b)) (pow c 3.0)))
    (pow b 7.0))
   a
   (/ (* -0.375 (* c c)) (pow b 3.0)))
  a
  (* -0.5 (/ c b))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return fma(fma((fma((-1.0546875 * pow(c, 4.0)), a, ((-0.5625 * (b * b)) * pow(c, 3.0))) / pow(b, 7.0)), a, ((-0.375 * (c * c)) / pow(b, 3.0))), a, (-0.5 * (c / b)));
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	return fma(fma(Float64(fma(Float64(-1.0546875 * (c ^ 4.0)), a, Float64(Float64(-0.5625 * Float64(b * b)) * (c ^ 3.0))) / (b ^ 7.0)), a, Float64(Float64(-0.375 * Float64(c * c)) / (b ^ 3.0))), a, Float64(-0.5 * Float64(c / b)))
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := N[(N[(N[(N[(N[(-1.0546875 * N[Power[c, 4.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * a + N[(N[(-0.5625 * N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * N[Power[c, 3.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[Power[b, 7.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * a + N[(N[(-0.375 * N[(c * c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[Power[b, 3.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * a + N[(-0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 17.9%

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

3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-1}{2} \cdot \frac{c}{b} + a \cdot \left(\frac{-3}{8} \cdot \frac{{c}^{2}}{{b}^{3}} + a \cdot \left(\frac{-9}{16} \cdot \frac{{c}^{3}}{{b}^{5}} + \frac{-1}{6} \cdot \frac{a \cdot \left(\frac{81}{64} \cdot \frac{{c}^{4}}{{b}^{6}} + \frac{81}{16} \cdot \frac{{c}^{4}}{{b}^{6}}\right)}{b}\right)\right)} \]
4. Step-by-step derivation

   1. +-commutative N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{a \cdot \left(\frac{-3}{8} \cdot \frac{{c}^{2}}{{b}^{3}} + a \cdot \left(\frac{-9}{16} \cdot \frac{{c}^{3}}{{b}^{5}} + \frac{-1}{6} \cdot \frac{a \cdot \left(\frac{81}{64} \cdot \frac{{c}^{4}}{{b}^{6}} + \frac{81}{16} \cdot \frac{{c}^{4}}{{b}^{6}}\right)}{b}\right)\right) + \frac{-1}{2} \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]

   2. *-commutative N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\frac{-3}{8} \cdot \frac{{c}^{2}}{{b}^{3}} + a \cdot \left(\frac{-9}{16} \cdot \frac{{c}^{3}}{{b}^{5}} + \frac{-1}{6} \cdot \frac{a \cdot \left(\frac{81}{64} \cdot \frac{{c}^{4}}{{b}^{6}} + \frac{81}{16} \cdot \frac{{c}^{4}}{{b}^{6}}\right)}{b}\right)\right) \cdot a} + \frac{-1}{2} \cdot \frac{c}{b} \]

   3. lower-fma.f64 N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{-3}{8} \cdot \frac{{c}^{2}}{{b}^{3}} + a \cdot \left(\frac{-9}{16} \cdot \frac{{c}^{3}}{{b}^{5}} + \frac{-1}{6} \cdot \frac{a \cdot \left(\frac{81}{64} \cdot \frac{{c}^{4}}{{b}^{6}} + \frac{81}{16} \cdot \frac{{c}^{4}}{{b}^{6}}\right)}{b}\right), a, \frac{-1}{2} \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right)} \]

5. Applied rewrites 97.7%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.16666666666666666 \cdot a, \frac{{c}^{4}}{{b}^{6}} \cdot \frac{6.328125}{b}, \frac{-0.5625 \cdot {c}^{3}}{{b}^{5}}\right), a, \frac{-0.375 \cdot \left(c \cdot c\right)}{{b}^{3}}\right), a, -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right)} \]

6. Taylor expanded in b around 0

   \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{-135}{128} \cdot \left(a \cdot {c}^{4}\right) + \frac{-9}{16} \cdot \left({b}^{2} \cdot {c}^{3}\right)}{{b}^{7}}, a, \frac{\frac{-3}{8} \cdot \left(c \cdot c\right)}{{b}^{3}}\right), a, \frac{-1}{2} \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right) \]
7. Step-by-step derivation

8. Applied rewrites 97.7%

   \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(-1.0546875 \cdot {c}^{4}, a, \left(-0.5625 \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right)\right) \cdot {c}^{3}\right)}{{b}^{7}}, a, \frac{-0.375 \cdot \left(c \cdot c\right)}{{b}^{3}}\right), a, -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right) \]
9. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 2: 97.8% accurate, 0.2× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(-1.0546875 \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right), {c}^{4}, \left(\left(c \cdot c\right) \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, a \cdot c, -0.375 \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right)\right)\right) \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right)\right)}{{b}^{7}}, a, -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right) \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (fma
  (/
   (fma
    (* -1.0546875 (* a a))
    (pow c 4.0)
    (* (* (* c c) (fma -0.5625 (* a c) (* -0.375 (* b b)))) (* b b)))
   (pow b 7.0))
  a
  (* -0.5 (/ c b))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return fma((fma((-1.0546875 * (a * a)), pow(c, 4.0), (((c * c) * fma(-0.5625, (a * c), (-0.375 * (b * b)))) * (b * b))) / pow(b, 7.0)), a, (-0.5 * (c / b)));
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	return fma(Float64(fma(Float64(-1.0546875 * Float64(a * a)), (c ^ 4.0), Float64(Float64(Float64(c * c) * fma(-0.5625, Float64(a * c), Float64(-0.375 * Float64(b * b)))) * Float64(b * b))) / (b ^ 7.0)), a, Float64(-0.5 * Float64(c / b)))
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := N[(N[(N[(N[(-1.0546875 * N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * N[Power[c, 4.0], $MachinePrecision] + N[(N[(N[(c * c), $MachinePrecision] * N[(-0.5625 * N[(a * c), $MachinePrecision] + N[(-0.375 * N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[Power[b, 7.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * a + N[(-0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 17.9%

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

3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-1}{2} \cdot \frac{c}{b} + a \cdot \left(\frac{-3}{8} \cdot \frac{{c}^{2}}{{b}^{3}} + a \cdot \left(\frac{-9}{16} \cdot \frac{{c}^{3}}{{b}^{5}} + \frac{-1}{6} \cdot \frac{a \cdot \left(\frac{81}{64} \cdot \frac{{c}^{4}}{{b}^{6}} + \frac{81}{16} \cdot \frac{{c}^{4}}{{b}^{6}}\right)}{b}\right)\right)} \]
4. Step-by-step derivation

   1. +-commutative N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{a \cdot \left(\frac{-3}{8} \cdot \frac{{c}^{2}}{{b}^{3}} + a \cdot \left(\frac{-9}{16} \cdot \frac{{c}^{3}}{{b}^{5}} + \frac{-1}{6} \cdot \frac{a \cdot \left(\frac{81}{64} \cdot \frac{{c}^{4}}{{b}^{6}} + \frac{81}{16} \cdot \frac{{c}^{4}}{{b}^{6}}\right)}{b}\right)\right) + \frac{-1}{2} \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]

   2. *-commutative N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(\frac{-3}{8} \cdot \frac{{c}^{2}}{{b}^{3}} + a \cdot \left(\frac{-9}{16} \cdot \frac{{c}^{3}}{{b}^{5}} + \frac{-1}{6} \cdot \frac{a \cdot \left(\frac{81}{64} \cdot \frac{{c}^{4}}{{b}^{6}} + \frac{81}{16} \cdot \frac{{c}^{4}}{{b}^{6}}\right)}{b}\right)\right) \cdot a} + \frac{-1}{2} \cdot \frac{c}{b} \]

   3. lower-fma.f64 N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{-3}{8} \cdot \frac{{c}^{2}}{{b}^{3}} + a \cdot \left(\frac{-9}{16} \cdot \frac{{c}^{3}}{{b}^{5}} + \frac{-1}{6} \cdot \frac{a \cdot \left(\frac{81}{64} \cdot \frac{{c}^{4}}{{b}^{6}} + \frac{81}{16} \cdot \frac{{c}^{4}}{{b}^{6}}\right)}{b}\right), a, \frac{-1}{2} \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right)} \]

5. Applied rewrites 97.7%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.16666666666666666 \cdot a, \frac{{c}^{4}}{{b}^{6}} \cdot \frac{6.328125}{b}, \frac{-0.5625 \cdot {c}^{3}}{{b}^{5}}\right), a, \frac{-0.375 \cdot \left(c \cdot c\right)}{{b}^{3}}\right), a, -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right)} \]

6. Taylor expanded in b around 0

   \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{-135}{128} \cdot \left(a \cdot {c}^{4}\right) + \frac{-9}{16} \cdot \left({b}^{2} \cdot {c}^{3}\right)}{{b}^{7}}, a, \frac{\frac{-3}{8} \cdot \left(c \cdot c\right)}{{b}^{3}}\right), a, \frac{-1}{2} \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right) \]
7. Step-by-step derivation

8. Applied rewrites 97.7%

   \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(-1.0546875 \cdot {c}^{4}, a, \left(-0.5625 \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right)\right) \cdot {c}^{3}\right)}{{b}^{7}}, a, \frac{-0.375 \cdot \left(c \cdot c\right)}{{b}^{3}}\right), a, -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right) \]

9. Taylor expanded in b around 0

   \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{-135}{128} \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot {c}^{4}\right) + {b}^{2} \cdot \left(\frac{-9}{16} \cdot \left(a \cdot {c}^{3}\right) + \frac{-3}{8} \cdot \left({b}^{2} \cdot {c}^{2}\right)\right)}{{b}^{7}}, a, \frac{-1}{2} \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right) \]
10. Step-by-step derivation

11. Applied rewrites 97.7%

    \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(-1.0546875 \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right), {c}^{4}, \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375 \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right), c \cdot c, \left({c}^{3} \cdot a\right) \cdot -0.5625\right) \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right)\right)}{{b}^{7}}, a, -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right) \]

12. Taylor expanded in c around 0

    \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{-135}{128} \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right), {c}^{4}, \left({c}^{2} \cdot \left(\frac{-9}{16} \cdot \left(a \cdot c\right) + \frac{-3}{8} \cdot {b}^{2}\right)\right) \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right)\right)}{{b}^{7}}, a, \frac{-1}{2} \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right) \]
13. Step-by-step derivation

14. Applied rewrites 97.7%

    \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(-1.0546875 \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right), {c}^{4}, \left(\left(c \cdot c\right) \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.5625, a \cdot c, -0.375 \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right)\right)\right) \cdot \left(b \cdot b\right)\right)}{{b}^{7}}, a, -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}\right) \]
15. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 3: 97.0% accurate, 0.2× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{-0.375 \cdot a}{b}, \frac{c \cdot c}{b}, \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\left({c}^{3} \cdot a\right) \cdot a}{{b}^{4}}, -0.5625, -0.5 \cdot c\right)\right)}{b} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (/
  (fma
   (/ (* -0.375 a) b)
   (/ (* c c) b)
   (fma (/ (* (* (pow c 3.0) a) a) (pow b 4.0)) -0.5625 (* -0.5 c)))
  b))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return fma(((-0.375 * a) / b), ((c * c) / b), fma((((pow(c, 3.0) * a) * a) / pow(b, 4.0)), -0.5625, (-0.5 * c))) / b;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	return Float64(fma(Float64(Float64(-0.375 * a) / b), Float64(Float64(c * c) / b), fma(Float64(Float64(Float64((c ^ 3.0) * a) * a) / (b ^ 4.0)), -0.5625, Float64(-0.5 * c))) / b)
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := N[(N[(N[(N[(-0.375 * a), $MachinePrecision] / b), $MachinePrecision] * N[(N[(c * c), $MachinePrecision] / b), $MachinePrecision] + N[(N[(N[(N[(N[Power[c, 3.0], $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision] / N[Power[b, 4.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * -0.5625 + N[(-0.5 * c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / b), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 17.9%

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

3. Taylor expanded in b around inf

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-9}{16} \cdot \frac{{a}^{2} \cdot {c}^{3}}{{b}^{4}} + \left(\frac{-1}{2} \cdot c + \frac{-3}{8} \cdot \frac{a \cdot {c}^{2}}{{b}^{2}}\right)}{b}} \]
4. Step-by-step derivation

   1. lower-/.f64 N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-9}{16} \cdot \frac{{a}^{2} \cdot {c}^{3}}{{b}^{4}} + \left(\frac{-1}{2} \cdot c + \frac{-3}{8} \cdot \frac{a \cdot {c}^{2}}{{b}^{2}}\right)}{b}} \]

5. Applied rewrites 96.8%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{-0.375 \cdot a}{b}, \frac{c \cdot c}{b}, \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\left({c}^{3} \cdot a\right) \cdot a}{{b}^{4}}, -0.5625, -0.5 \cdot c\right)\right)}{b}} \]
6. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 4: 96.6% accurate, 0.3× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\left(b \cdot a\right) \cdot b, -0.375, \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot c\right) \cdot -0.5625\right)}{{b}^{5}}, c, \frac{-0.5}{b}\right) \cdot c \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (*
  (fma
   (/ (fma (* (* b a) b) -0.375 (* (* (* a a) c) -0.5625)) (pow b 5.0))
   c
   (/ -0.5 b))
  c))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return fma((fma(((b * a) * b), -0.375, (((a * a) * c) * -0.5625)) / pow(b, 5.0)), c, (-0.5 / b)) * c;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	return Float64(fma(Float64(fma(Float64(Float64(b * a) * b), -0.375, Float64(Float64(Float64(a * a) * c) * -0.5625)) / (b ^ 5.0)), c, Float64(-0.5 / b)) * c)
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := N[(N[(N[(N[(N[(N[(b * a), $MachinePrecision] * b), $MachinePrecision] * -0.375 + N[(N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * c), $MachinePrecision] * -0.5625), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[Power[b, 5.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * c + N[(-0.5 / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * c), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 17.9%

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

3. Taylor expanded in c around 0

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{c \cdot \left(c \cdot \left(\frac{-9}{16} \cdot \frac{{a}^{2} \cdot c}{{b}^{5}} + \frac{-3}{8} \cdot \frac{a}{{b}^{3}}\right) - \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b}\right)} \]
4. Step-by-step derivation

   1. *-commutative N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot \left(\frac{-9}{16} \cdot \frac{{a}^{2} \cdot c}{{b}^{5}} + \frac{-3}{8} \cdot \frac{a}{{b}^{3}}\right) - \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b}\right) \cdot c} \]

   2. lower-*.f64 N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\left(c \cdot \left(\frac{-9}{16} \cdot \frac{{a}^{2} \cdot c}{{b}^{5}} + \frac{-3}{8} \cdot \frac{a}{{b}^{3}}\right) - \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b}\right) \cdot c} \]

5. Applied rewrites 96.4%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(c \cdot -0.5625, a \cdot \frac{a}{{b}^{5}}, \frac{a}{{b}^{3}} \cdot -0.375\right), c, \frac{-0.5}{b}\right) \cdot c} \]

6. Taylor expanded in b around 0

   \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{-9}{16} \cdot \left({a}^{2} \cdot c\right) + \frac{-3}{8} \cdot \left(a \cdot {b}^{2}\right)}{{b}^{5}}, c, \frac{\frac{-1}{2}}{b}\right) \cdot c \]
7. Step-by-step derivation

8. Applied rewrites 96.4%

   \[\leadsto \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\left(b \cdot a\right) \cdot b, -0.375, \left(\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot c\right) \cdot -0.5625\right)}{{b}^{5}}, c, \frac{-0.5}{b}\right) \cdot c \]
9. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 5: 95.4% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375 \cdot a, \frac{c \cdot c}{b \cdot b}, -0.5 \cdot c\right)}{b} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (/ (fma (* -0.375 a) (/ (* c c) (* b b)) (* -0.5 c)) b))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return fma((-0.375 * a), ((c * c) / (b * b)), (-0.5 * c)) / b;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	return Float64(fma(Float64(-0.375 * a), Float64(Float64(c * c) / Float64(b * b)), Float64(-0.5 * c)) / b)
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := N[(N[(N[(-0.375 * a), $MachinePrecision] * N[(N[(c * c), $MachinePrecision] / N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[(-0.5 * c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / b), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 17.9%

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

3. Taylor expanded in b around inf

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-1}{2} \cdot c + \frac{-3}{8} \cdot \frac{a \cdot {c}^{2}}{{b}^{2}}}{b}} \]
4. Step-by-step derivation

   1. lower-/.f64 N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-1}{2} \cdot c + \frac{-3}{8} \cdot \frac{a \cdot {c}^{2}}{{b}^{2}}}{b}} \]

   2. +-commutative N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{-3}{8} \cdot \frac{a \cdot {c}^{2}}{{b}^{2}} + \frac{-1}{2} \cdot c}}{b} \]

   3. associate-*r/ N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-3}{8} \cdot \left(a \cdot {c}^{2}\right)}{{b}^{2}}} + \frac{-1}{2} \cdot c}{b} \]

   4. associate-*r* N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\color{blue}{\left(\frac{-3}{8} \cdot a\right) \cdot {c}^{2}}}{{b}^{2}} + \frac{-1}{2} \cdot c}{b} \]

   5. unpow2 N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\left(\frac{-3}{8} \cdot a\right) \cdot {c}^{2}}{\color{blue}{b \cdot b}} + \frac{-1}{2} \cdot c}{b} \]

   6. times-frac N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-3}{8} \cdot a}{b} \cdot \frac{{c}^{2}}{b}} + \frac{-1}{2} \cdot c}{b} \]

   7. lower-fma.f64 N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{-3}{8} \cdot a}{b}, \frac{{c}^{2}}{b}, \frac{-1}{2} \cdot c\right)}}{b} \]

   8. lower-/.f64 N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-3}{8} \cdot a}{b}}, \frac{{c}^{2}}{b}, \frac{-1}{2} \cdot c\right)}{b} \]

   9. lower-*.f64 N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\color{blue}{\frac{-3}{8} \cdot a}}{b}, \frac{{c}^{2}}{b}, \frac{-1}{2} \cdot c\right)}{b} \]

   10. lower-/.f64 N/A

       \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{-3}{8} \cdot a}{b}, \color{blue}{\frac{{c}^{2}}{b}}, \frac{-1}{2} \cdot c\right)}{b} \]

   11. unpow2 N/A

       \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{-3}{8} \cdot a}{b}, \frac{\color{blue}{c \cdot c}}{b}, \frac{-1}{2} \cdot c\right)}{b} \]

   12. lower-*.f64 N/A

       \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{-3}{8} \cdot a}{b}, \frac{\color{blue}{c \cdot c}}{b}, \frac{-1}{2} \cdot c\right)}{b} \]

   13. lower-*.f64 95.2

       \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{-0.375 \cdot a}{b}, \frac{c \cdot c}{b}, \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot c}\right)}{b} \]

5. Applied rewrites 95.2%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{-0.375 \cdot a}{b}, \frac{c \cdot c}{b}, -0.5 \cdot c\right)}{b}} \]
6. Step-by-step derivation

7. Applied rewrites 95.2%

   \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375 \cdot a, \frac{c \cdot c}{b \cdot b}, -0.5 \cdot c\right)}{b} \]
8. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 6: 95.4% accurate, 1.1× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{c \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375, \frac{a \cdot c}{b \cdot b}, -0.5\right)}{b} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (/ (* c (fma -0.375 (/ (* a c) (* b b)) -0.5)) b))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (c * fma(-0.375, ((a * c) / (b * b)), -0.5)) / b;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	return Float64(Float64(c * fma(-0.375, Float64(Float64(a * c) / Float64(b * b)), -0.5)) / b)
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := N[(N[(c * N[(-0.375 * N[(N[(a * c), $MachinePrecision] / N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + -0.5), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / b), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 17.9%

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

3. Taylor expanded in b around inf

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-1}{2} \cdot c + \frac{-3}{8} \cdot \frac{a \cdot {c}^{2}}{{b}^{2}}}{b}} \]
4. Step-by-step derivation

   1. lower-/.f64 N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-1}{2} \cdot c + \frac{-3}{8} \cdot \frac{a \cdot {c}^{2}}{{b}^{2}}}{b}} \]

   2. +-commutative N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{-3}{8} \cdot \frac{a \cdot {c}^{2}}{{b}^{2}} + \frac{-1}{2} \cdot c}}{b} \]

   3. associate-*r/ N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-3}{8} \cdot \left(a \cdot {c}^{2}\right)}{{b}^{2}}} + \frac{-1}{2} \cdot c}{b} \]

   4. associate-*r* N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\color{blue}{\left(\frac{-3}{8} \cdot a\right) \cdot {c}^{2}}}{{b}^{2}} + \frac{-1}{2} \cdot c}{b} \]

   5. unpow2 N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\left(\frac{-3}{8} \cdot a\right) \cdot {c}^{2}}{\color{blue}{b \cdot b}} + \frac{-1}{2} \cdot c}{b} \]

   6. times-frac N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-3}{8} \cdot a}{b} \cdot \frac{{c}^{2}}{b}} + \frac{-1}{2} \cdot c}{b} \]

   7. lower-fma.f64 N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{-3}{8} \cdot a}{b}, \frac{{c}^{2}}{b}, \frac{-1}{2} \cdot c\right)}}{b} \]

   8. lower-/.f64 N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-3}{8} \cdot a}{b}}, \frac{{c}^{2}}{b}, \frac{-1}{2} \cdot c\right)}{b} \]

   9. lower-*.f64 N/A

      \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\color{blue}{\frac{-3}{8} \cdot a}}{b}, \frac{{c}^{2}}{b}, \frac{-1}{2} \cdot c\right)}{b} \]

   10. lower-/.f64 N/A

       \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{-3}{8} \cdot a}{b}, \color{blue}{\frac{{c}^{2}}{b}}, \frac{-1}{2} \cdot c\right)}{b} \]

   11. unpow2 N/A

       \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{-3}{8} \cdot a}{b}, \frac{\color{blue}{c \cdot c}}{b}, \frac{-1}{2} \cdot c\right)}{b} \]

   12. lower-*.f64 N/A

       \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{-3}{8} \cdot a}{b}, \frac{\color{blue}{c \cdot c}}{b}, \frac{-1}{2} \cdot c\right)}{b} \]

   13. lower-*.f64 95.2

       \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{-0.375 \cdot a}{b}, \frac{c \cdot c}{b}, \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot c}\right)}{b} \]

5. Applied rewrites 95.2%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{-0.375 \cdot a}{b}, \frac{c \cdot c}{b}, -0.5 \cdot c\right)}{b}} \]

6. Taylor expanded in b around 0

   \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\frac{-1}{2} \cdot \left({b}^{2} \cdot c\right) + \frac{-3}{8} \cdot \left(a \cdot {c}^{2}\right)}{{b}^{2}}}{b} \]
7. Step-by-step derivation

8. Applied rewrites 95.1%

   \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\left(b \cdot b\right) \cdot c, -0.5, \left(\left(c \cdot c\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot -0.375\right)}{b \cdot b}}{b} \]

9. Taylor expanded in c around 0

   \[\leadsto \frac{c \cdot \left(\frac{-3}{8} \cdot \frac{a \cdot c}{{b}^{2}} - \frac{1}{2}\right)}{b} \]
10. Step-by-step derivation

11. Applied rewrites 95.1%

    \[\leadsto \frac{c \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(-0.375, \frac{a \cdot c}{b \cdot b}, -0.5\right)}{b} \]
12. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 7: 90.6% accurate, 2.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ -0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c) :precision binary64 (* -0.5 (/ c b)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return -0.5 * (c / b);
}

Fortran

real(8) function code(a, b, c)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8), intent (in) :: c
    code = (-0.5d0) * (c / b)
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return -0.5 * (c / b);
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	return -0.5 * (c / b)

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	return Float64(-0.5 * Float64(c / b))
end

MATLAB

function tmp = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = -0.5 * (c / b);
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := N[(-0.5 * N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]

Derivation

1. Initial program 17.9%

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

3. Taylor expanded in a around 0

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

   1. lower-*.f64 N/A

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-1}{2} \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]

   2. lower-/.f64 90.7

      \[\leadsto -0.5 \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{c}{b}} \]

5. Applied rewrites 90.7%

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot \frac{c}{b}} \]
6. Add Preprocessing

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2024318 
(FPCore (a b c)
  :name "Cubic critical, wide range"
  :precision binary64
  :pre (and (and (and (< 4.930380657631324e-32 a) (< a 2.028240960365167e+31)) (and (< 4.930380657631324e-32 b) (< b 2.028240960365167e+31))) (and (< 4.930380657631324e-32 c) (< c 2.028240960365167e+31)))
  (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 3.0 a) c)))) (* 3.0 a)))