Quadratic roots, medium range

Percentage Accurate: 31.4% → 95.5%
Time: 7.6s
Alternatives: 6
Speedup: 3.6×

Specification

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\[\left(\left(1.1102230246251565 \cdot 10^{-16} < a \land a < 9007199254740992\right) \land \left(1.1102230246251565 \cdot 10^{-16} < b \land b < 9007199254740992\right)\right) \land \left(1.1102230246251565 \cdot 10^{-16} < c \land c < 9007199254740992\right)\]
\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 4.0 a) c)))) (* 2.0 a)))
double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c)))) / (2.0 * a);
}
real(8) function code(a, b, c)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8), intent (in) :: c
    code = (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0d0 * a) * c)))) / (2.0d0 * a)
end function
public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (-b + Math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c)))) / (2.0 * a);
}
def code(a, b, c):
	return (-b + math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c)))) / (2.0 * a)
function code(a, b, c)
	return Float64(Float64(Float64(-b) + sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(Float64(4.0 * a) * c)))) / Float64(2.0 * a))
end
function tmp = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c)))) / (2.0 * a);
end
code[a_, b_, c_] := N[(N[((-b) + N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(N[(4.0 * a), $MachinePrecision] * c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(2.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

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

Sampling outcomes in binary64 precision:

Local Percentage Accuracy vs ?

The average percentage accuracy by input value. Horizontal axis shows value of an input variable; the variable is choosen in the title. Vertical axis is accuracy; higher is better. Red represent the original program, while blue represents Herbie's suggestion. These can be toggled with buttons below the plot. The line is an average while dots represent individual samples.

Accuracy vs Speed?

Herbie found 6 alternatives:

AlternativeAccuracySpeedup
The accuracy (vertical axis) and speed (horizontal axis) of each alternatives. Up and to the right is better. The red square shows the initial program, and each blue circle shows an alternative.The line shows the best available speed-accuracy tradeoffs.

Initial Program: 31.4% accurate, 1.0× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 4.0 a) c)))) (* 2.0 a)))
double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c)))) / (2.0 * a);
}
real(8) function code(a, b, c)
    real(8), intent (in) :: a
    real(8), intent (in) :: b
    real(8), intent (in) :: c
    code = (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0d0 * a) * c)))) / (2.0d0 * a)
end function
public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return (-b + Math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c)))) / (2.0 * a);
}
def code(a, b, c):
	return (-b + math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c)))) / (2.0 * a)
function code(a, b, c)
	return Float64(Float64(Float64(-b) + sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(Float64(4.0 * a) * c)))) / Float64(2.0 * a))
end
function tmp = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c)))) / (2.0 * a);
end
code[a_, b_, c_] := N[(N[((-b) + N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(N[(4.0 * a), $MachinePrecision] * c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(2.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

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

Alternative 1: 95.5% accurate, 0.2× speedup?

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{0.5}{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, \mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \frac{c}{{b}^{3}}, \frac{\left(c \cdot c\right) \cdot a}{{b}^{5}}\right), \frac{0.5}{b}\right) \cdot a, c, -0.5 \cdot b\right)}{c}} \end{array} \]
(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (/
  0.5
  (/
   (fma
    (*
     (fma
      a
      (fma 0.5 (/ c (pow b 3.0)) (/ (* (* c c) a) (pow b 5.0)))
      (/ 0.5 b))
     a)
    c
    (* -0.5 b))
   c)))
double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return 0.5 / (fma((fma(a, fma(0.5, (c / pow(b, 3.0)), (((c * c) * a) / pow(b, 5.0))), (0.5 / b)) * a), c, (-0.5 * b)) / c);
}
function code(a, b, c)
	return Float64(0.5 / Float64(fma(Float64(fma(a, fma(0.5, Float64(c / (b ^ 3.0)), Float64(Float64(Float64(c * c) * a) / (b ^ 5.0))), Float64(0.5 / b)) * a), c, Float64(-0.5 * b)) / c))
end
code[a_, b_, c_] := N[(0.5 / N[(N[(N[(N[(a * N[(0.5 * N[(c / N[Power[b, 3.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[(N[(N[(c * c), $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision] / N[Power[b, 5.0], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[(0.5 / b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision] * c + N[(-0.5 * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
\begin{array}{l}

\\
\frac{0.5}{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, \mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \frac{c}{{b}^{3}}, \frac{\left(c \cdot c\right) \cdot a}{{b}^{5}}\right), \frac{0.5}{b}\right) \cdot a, c, -0.5 \cdot b\right)}{c}}
\end{array}
Derivation
  1. Initial program 31.9%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\frac{a}{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}}} \]
    8. lower-/.f6431.9

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

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

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

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

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\frac{a}{\color{blue}{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b}}} \]
    13. lower--.f6431.9

      \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{\frac{a}{\color{blue}{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b}}} \]
  4. Applied rewrites31.9%

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

    \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-1}{2} \cdot b + c \cdot \left(c \cdot \left(-1 \cdot \left(c \cdot \left(-1 \cdot \frac{a \cdot \left(-1 \cdot \frac{{a}^{2}}{{b}^{3}} + \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{{a}^{2}}{{b}^{3}}\right)}{{b}^{2}} + \left(\frac{-1}{8} \cdot \frac{b \cdot \left(4 \cdot \frac{{a}^{4}}{{b}^{6}} + 16 \cdot \frac{{a}^{4}}{{b}^{6}}\right)}{a} + \frac{{a}^{3}}{{b}^{5}}\right)\right)\right) - \left(-1 \cdot \frac{{a}^{2}}{{b}^{3}} + \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{{a}^{2}}{{b}^{3}}\right)\right) - \frac{-1}{2} \cdot \frac{a}{b}\right)}{c}}} \]
  6. Applied rewrites95.1%

    \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{\color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(-a, \frac{\frac{a \cdot a}{{b}^{3}} \cdot -0.5}{b \cdot b}, \mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot \frac{\frac{{a}^{4}}{{b}^{6}} \cdot 20}{a}, -0.125, \frac{{a}^{3}}{{b}^{5}}\right)\right), -c, \frac{0.5 \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right)}{{b}^{3}}\right), c, \frac{a}{b} \cdot 0.5\right), c, -0.5 \cdot b\right)}{c}}} \]
  7. Taylor expanded in a around 0

    \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot \left(a \cdot \left(\frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{c}{{b}^{3}} + \frac{a \cdot {c}^{2}}{{b}^{5}}\right) + \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{1}{b}\right), c, \frac{-1}{2} \cdot b\right)}{c}} \]
  8. Step-by-step derivation
    1. Applied rewrites95.1%

      \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot \mathsf{fma}\left(a, \mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \frac{c}{{b}^{3}}, \frac{a \cdot \left(c \cdot c\right)}{{b}^{5}}\right), \frac{0.5}{b}\right), c, -0.5 \cdot b\right)}{c}} \]
    2. Final simplification95.1%

      \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(a, \mathsf{fma}\left(0.5, \frac{c}{{b}^{3}}, \frac{\left(c \cdot c\right) \cdot a}{{b}^{5}}\right), \frac{0.5}{b}\right) \cdot a, c, -0.5 \cdot b\right)}{c}} \]
    3. Add Preprocessing

    Alternative 2: 94.0% accurate, 0.6× speedup?

    \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{0.5}{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\left(\frac{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot c}{b \cdot b} + a\right) \cdot 0.5}{b}, c, -0.5 \cdot b\right)}{c}} \end{array} \]
    (FPCore (a b c)
     :precision binary64
     (/
      0.5
      (/ (fma (/ (* (+ (/ (* (* a a) c) (* b b)) a) 0.5) b) c (* -0.5 b)) c)))
    double code(double a, double b, double c) {
    	return 0.5 / (fma(((((((a * a) * c) / (b * b)) + a) * 0.5) / b), c, (-0.5 * b)) / c);
    }
    
    function code(a, b, c)
    	return Float64(0.5 / Float64(fma(Float64(Float64(Float64(Float64(Float64(Float64(a * a) * c) / Float64(b * b)) + a) * 0.5) / b), c, Float64(-0.5 * b)) / c))
    end
    
    code[a_, b_, c_] := N[(0.5 / N[(N[(N[(N[(N[(N[(N[(N[(a * a), $MachinePrecision] * c), $MachinePrecision] / N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + a), $MachinePrecision] * 0.5), $MachinePrecision] / b), $MachinePrecision] * c + N[(-0.5 * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
    
    \begin{array}{l}
    
    \\
    \frac{0.5}{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\left(\frac{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot c}{b \cdot b} + a\right) \cdot 0.5}{b}, c, -0.5 \cdot b\right)}{c}}
    \end{array}
    
    Derivation
    1. Initial program 31.9%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\frac{a}{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}}} \]
      8. lower-/.f6431.9

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

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

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

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

        \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\frac{a}{\color{blue}{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b}}} \]
      13. lower--.f6431.9

        \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{\frac{a}{\color{blue}{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b}}} \]
    4. Applied rewrites31.9%

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

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\color{blue}{\frac{\frac{-1}{2} \cdot b + c \cdot \left(c \cdot \left(-1 \cdot \left(c \cdot \left(-1 \cdot \frac{a \cdot \left(-1 \cdot \frac{{a}^{2}}{{b}^{3}} + \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{{a}^{2}}{{b}^{3}}\right)}{{b}^{2}} + \left(\frac{-1}{8} \cdot \frac{b \cdot \left(4 \cdot \frac{{a}^{4}}{{b}^{6}} + 16 \cdot \frac{{a}^{4}}{{b}^{6}}\right)}{a} + \frac{{a}^{3}}{{b}^{5}}\right)\right)\right) - \left(-1 \cdot \frac{{a}^{2}}{{b}^{3}} + \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{{a}^{2}}{{b}^{3}}\right)\right) - \frac{-1}{2} \cdot \frac{a}{b}\right)}{c}}} \]
    6. Applied rewrites95.1%

      \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{\color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(\mathsf{fma}\left(-a, \frac{\frac{a \cdot a}{{b}^{3}} \cdot -0.5}{b \cdot b}, \mathsf{fma}\left(b \cdot \frac{\frac{{a}^{4}}{{b}^{6}} \cdot 20}{a}, -0.125, \frac{{a}^{3}}{{b}^{5}}\right)\right), -c, \frac{0.5 \cdot \left(a \cdot a\right)}{{b}^{3}}\right), c, \frac{a}{b} \cdot 0.5\right), c, -0.5 \cdot b\right)}{c}}} \]
    7. Taylor expanded in b around inf

      \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{\frac{1}{2} \cdot a + \frac{1}{2} \cdot \frac{{a}^{2} \cdot c}{{b}^{2}}}{b}, c, \frac{-1}{2} \cdot b\right)}{c}} \]
    8. Step-by-step derivation
      1. Applied rewrites93.5%

        \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{0.5 \cdot \left(a + \frac{\left(a \cdot a\right) \cdot c}{b \cdot b}\right)}{b}, c, -0.5 \cdot b\right)}{c}} \]
      2. Final simplification93.5%

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

      Alternative 3: 90.8% accurate, 1.0× speedup?

      \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{0.5}{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{c}{b} \cdot a, 0.5, -0.5 \cdot b\right)}{c}} \end{array} \]
      (FPCore (a b c)
       :precision binary64
       (/ 0.5 (/ (fma (* (/ c b) a) 0.5 (* -0.5 b)) c)))
      double code(double a, double b, double c) {
      	return 0.5 / (fma(((c / b) * a), 0.5, (-0.5 * b)) / c);
      }
      
      function code(a, b, c)
      	return Float64(0.5 / Float64(fma(Float64(Float64(c / b) * a), 0.5, Float64(-0.5 * b)) / c))
      end
      
      code[a_, b_, c_] := N[(0.5 / N[(N[(N[(N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] * a), $MachinePrecision] * 0.5 + N[(-0.5 * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
      
      \begin{array}{l}
      
      \\
      \frac{0.5}{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{c}{b} \cdot a, 0.5, -0.5 \cdot b\right)}{c}}
      \end{array}
      
      Derivation
      1. Initial program 31.9%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\frac{a}{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}}} \]
        8. lower-/.f6431.9

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

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

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

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

          \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\frac{a}{\color{blue}{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b}}} \]
        13. lower--.f6431.9

          \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{\frac{a}{\color{blue}{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b}}} \]
      4. Applied rewrites31.9%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

          \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot \color{blue}{\frac{c}{b}}, \frac{1}{2}, \frac{-1}{2} \cdot b\right)}{c}} \]
        8. lower-*.f6490.3

          \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot \frac{c}{b}, 0.5, \color{blue}{-0.5 \cdot b}\right)}{c}} \]
      7. Applied rewrites90.3%

        \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{\color{blue}{\frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(a \cdot \frac{c}{b}, 0.5, -0.5 \cdot b\right)}{c}}} \]
      8. Final simplification90.3%

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

      Alternative 4: 90.8% accurate, 1.1× speedup?

      \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{0.5}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{a}{b}, 0.5, \frac{b}{c} \cdot -0.5\right)} \end{array} \]
      (FPCore (a b c) :precision binary64 (/ 0.5 (fma (/ a b) 0.5 (* (/ b c) -0.5))))
      double code(double a, double b, double c) {
      	return 0.5 / fma((a / b), 0.5, ((b / c) * -0.5));
      }
      
      function code(a, b, c)
      	return Float64(0.5 / fma(Float64(a / b), 0.5, Float64(Float64(b / c) * -0.5)))
      end
      
      code[a_, b_, c_] := N[(0.5 / N[(N[(a / b), $MachinePrecision] * 0.5 + N[(N[(b / c), $MachinePrecision] * -0.5), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]
      
      \begin{array}{l}
      
      \\
      \frac{0.5}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{a}{b}, 0.5, \frac{b}{c} \cdot -0.5\right)}
      \end{array}
      
      Derivation
      1. Initial program 31.9%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\frac{a}{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}}} \]
        8. lower-/.f6431.9

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

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

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

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

          \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\frac{a}{\color{blue}{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b}}} \]
        13. lower--.f6431.9

          \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{\frac{a}{\color{blue}{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c} - b}}} \]
      4. Applied rewrites31.9%

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

          \[\leadsto \frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{a}{b}, \frac{1}{2}, \color{blue}{\frac{b}{c} \cdot \frac{-1}{2}}\right)} \]
        7. lower-/.f6490.3

          \[\leadsto \frac{0.5}{\mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{a}{b}, 0.5, \color{blue}{\frac{b}{c}} \cdot -0.5\right)} \]
      7. Applied rewrites90.3%

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

      Alternative 5: 90.7% accurate, 1.2× speedup?

      \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(-a, \frac{c}{b \cdot b}, -1\right) \cdot c}{b} \end{array} \]
      (FPCore (a b c) :precision binary64 (/ (* (fma (- a) (/ c (* b b)) -1.0) c) b))
      double code(double a, double b, double c) {
      	return (fma(-a, (c / (b * b)), -1.0) * c) / b;
      }
      
      function code(a, b, c)
      	return Float64(Float64(fma(Float64(-a), Float64(c / Float64(b * b)), -1.0) * c) / b)
      end
      
      code[a_, b_, c_] := N[(N[(N[((-a) * N[(c / N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + -1.0), $MachinePrecision] * c), $MachinePrecision] / b), $MachinePrecision]
      
      \begin{array}{l}
      
      \\
      \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(-a, \frac{c}{b \cdot b}, -1\right) \cdot c}{b}
      \end{array}
      
      Derivation
      1. Initial program 31.9%

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

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-2 \cdot \frac{{a}^{2} \cdot {c}^{3}}{{b}^{4}} + \left(-1 \cdot c + -1 \cdot \frac{a \cdot {c}^{2}}{{b}^{2}}\right)}{b}} \]
      4. Step-by-step derivation
        1. lower-/.f64N/A

          \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{-2 \cdot \frac{{a}^{2} \cdot {c}^{3}}{{b}^{4}} + \left(-1 \cdot c + -1 \cdot \frac{a \cdot {c}^{2}}{{b}^{2}}\right)}{b}} \]
      5. Applied rewrites93.4%

        \[\leadsto \color{blue}{\frac{\frac{\left(\left({c}^{3} \cdot a\right) \cdot a\right) \cdot -2}{{b}^{4}} - \mathsf{fma}\left(\frac{c}{b}, \frac{c \cdot a}{b}, c\right)}{b}} \]
      6. Taylor expanded in c around 0

        \[\leadsto \frac{c \cdot \left(-1 \cdot \frac{a \cdot c}{{b}^{2}} - 1\right)}{b} \]
      7. Step-by-step derivation
        1. Applied rewrites90.1%

          \[\leadsto \frac{\mathsf{fma}\left(-a, \frac{c}{b \cdot b}, -1\right) \cdot c}{b} \]
        2. Add Preprocessing

        Alternative 6: 81.3% accurate, 3.6× speedup?

        \[\begin{array}{l} \\ \frac{-c}{b} \end{array} \]
        (FPCore (a b c) :precision binary64 (/ (- c) b))
        double code(double a, double b, double c) {
        	return -c / b;
        }
        
        real(8) function code(a, b, c)
            real(8), intent (in) :: a
            real(8), intent (in) :: b
            real(8), intent (in) :: c
            code = -c / b
        end function
        
        public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
        	return -c / b;
        }
        
        def code(a, b, c):
        	return -c / b
        
        function code(a, b, c)
        	return Float64(Float64(-c) / b)
        end
        
        function tmp = code(a, b, c)
        	tmp = -c / b;
        end
        
        code[a_, b_, c_] := N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision]
        
        \begin{array}{l}
        
        \\
        \frac{-c}{b}
        \end{array}
        
        Derivation
        1. Initial program 31.9%

          \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
        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-/.f64N/A

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

            \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{\mathsf{neg}\left(c\right)}}{b} \]
          4. lower-neg.f6480.9

            \[\leadsto \frac{\color{blue}{-c}}{b} \]
        5. Applied rewrites80.9%

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

        Reproduce

        ?
        herbie shell --seed 2024327 
        (FPCore (a b c)
          :name "Quadratic roots, medium range"
          :precision binary64
          :pre (and (and (and (< 1.1102230246251565e-16 a) (< a 9007199254740992.0)) (and (< 1.1102230246251565e-16 b) (< b 9007199254740992.0))) (and (< 1.1102230246251565e-16 c) (< c 9007199254740992.0)))
          (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 4.0 a) c)))) (* 2.0 a)))