The quadratic formula (r1)

Percentage Accurate: 52.6% → 85.1%

Time: 8.2s

Alternatives: 7

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: 52.6% 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: 85.1% accurate, 0.8× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -5.6 \cdot 10^{+67}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 6.5 \cdot 10^{-77}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(a \cdot 4\right) \cdot c} - b}{2 \cdot a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -5.6e+67)
   (- (/ c b) (/ b a))
   (if (<= b 6.5e-77)
     (/ (- (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* a 4.0) c))) b) (* 2.0 a))
     (/ (- c) b))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -5.6e+67) {
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a);
	} else if (b <= 6.5e-77) {
		tmp = (sqrt(((b * b) - ((a * 4.0) * c))) - b) / (2.0 * 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 <= (-5.6d+67)) then
        tmp = (c / b) - (b / a)
    else if (b <= 6.5d-77) then
        tmp = (sqrt(((b * b) - ((a * 4.0d0) * c))) - b) / (2.0d0 * 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 <= -5.6e+67) {
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a);
	} else if (b <= 6.5e-77) {
		tmp = (Math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((a * 4.0) * c))) - b) / (2.0 * a);
	} else {
		tmp = -c / b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -5.6e+67:
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a)
	elif b <= 6.5e-77:
		tmp = (math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((a * 4.0) * c))) - b) / (2.0 * a)
	else:
		tmp = -c / b
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -5.6e+67)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(c / b) - Float64(b / a));
	elseif (b <= 6.5e-77)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(Float64(a * 4.0) * c))) - b) / Float64(2.0 * a));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-c) / b);
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= -5.6e+67)
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a);
	elseif (b <= 6.5e-77)
		tmp = (sqrt(((b * b) - ((a * 4.0) * c))) - b) / (2.0 * a);
	else
		tmp = -c / b;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -5.6e+67], N[(N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(b / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 6.5e-77], 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[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -5.5999999999999995e67

   1. Initial program 49.6%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   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 92.0

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

   5. Applied rewrites 92.0%

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

   7. Applied rewrites 92.0%

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

   if -5.5999999999999995e67 < b < 6.4999999999999999e-77

   1. Initial program 83.8%

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

   if 6.4999999999999999e-77 < b

   1. Initial program 21.2%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in 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 77.8

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

   5. Applied rewrites 77.8%

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

4. Final simplification 83.9%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -5.6 \cdot 10^{+67}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 6.5 \cdot 10^{-77}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(a \cdot 4\right) \cdot c} - b}{2 \cdot a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 2: 85.2% accurate, 0.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1.95 \cdot 10^{+86}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 6.5 \cdot 10^{-77}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(-4 \cdot c, a, b \cdot b\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -1.95e+86)
   (- (/ c b) (/ b a))
   (if (<= b 6.5e-77)
     (* (- (sqrt (fma (* -4.0 c) a (* b b))) b) (/ 0.5 a))
     (/ (- c) b))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -1.95e+86) {
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a);
	} else if (b <= 6.5e-77) {
		tmp = (sqrt(fma((-4.0 * c), a, (b * b))) - b) * (0.5 / a);
	} else {
		tmp = -c / b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -1.95e+86)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(c / b) - Float64(b / a));
	elseif (b <= 6.5e-77)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(sqrt(fma(Float64(-4.0 * c), a, Float64(b * b))) - b) * Float64(0.5 / a));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-c) / b);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -1.95e+86], N[(N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(b / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 6.5e-77], N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(N[(-4.0 * c), $MachinePrecision] * a + N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] * N[(0.5 / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -1.9500000000000001e86

   1. Initial program 46.5%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   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 91.6

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

   5. Applied rewrites 91.6%

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

   7. Applied rewrites 91.6%

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

   if -1.9500000000000001e86 < b < 6.4999999999999999e-77

   1. Initial program 84.4%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   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 84.2

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

      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 84.2

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

   4. Applied rewrites 84.2%

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

   if 6.4999999999999999e-77 < b

   1. Initial program 21.2%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in 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 77.8

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

   5. Applied rewrites 77.8%

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

4. Final simplification 83.8%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1.95 \cdot 10^{+86}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 6.5 \cdot 10^{-77}:\\ \;\;\;\;\left(\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(-4 \cdot c, a, b \cdot b\right)} - b\right) \cdot \frac{0.5}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 3: 80.6% accurate, 1.0× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1.25 \cdot 10^{-31}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 6.5 \cdot 10^{-77}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{\left(c \cdot a\right) \cdot -4} - b}{2 \cdot a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -1.25e-31)
   (- (/ c b) (/ b a))
   (if (<= b 6.5e-77)
     (/ (- (sqrt (* (* c a) -4.0)) b) (* 2.0 a))
     (/ (- c) b))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -1.25e-31) {
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a);
	} else if (b <= 6.5e-77) {
		tmp = (sqrt(((c * a) * -4.0)) - b) / (2.0 * 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 <= (-1.25d-31)) then
        tmp = (c / b) - (b / a)
    else if (b <= 6.5d-77) then
        tmp = (sqrt(((c * a) * (-4.0d0))) - b) / (2.0d0 * 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 <= -1.25e-31) {
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a);
	} else if (b <= 6.5e-77) {
		tmp = (Math.sqrt(((c * a) * -4.0)) - b) / (2.0 * a);
	} else {
		tmp = -c / b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -1.25e-31:
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a)
	elif b <= 6.5e-77:
		tmp = (math.sqrt(((c * a) * -4.0)) - b) / (2.0 * a)
	else:
		tmp = -c / b
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -1.25e-31)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(c / b) - Float64(b / a));
	elseif (b <= 6.5e-77)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(sqrt(Float64(Float64(c * a) * -4.0)) - b) / Float64(2.0 * a));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-c) / b);
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= -1.25e-31)
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a);
	elseif (b <= 6.5e-77)
		tmp = (sqrt(((c * a) * -4.0)) - b) / (2.0 * a);
	else
		tmp = -c / b;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -1.25e-31], N[(N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(b / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 6.5e-77], N[(N[(N[Sqrt[N[(N[(c * a), $MachinePrecision] * -4.0), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] - b), $MachinePrecision] / N[(2.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -1.25e-31

   1. Initial program 60.3%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in 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 91.1

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

   5. Applied rewrites 91.1%

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

   7. Applied rewrites 91.1%

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

   if -1.25e-31 < b < 6.4999999999999999e-77

   1. Initial program 79.6%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in a around inf

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

      1. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      2. *-commutative N/A

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

      3. lower-*.f64 72.2

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

   5. Applied rewrites 72.2%

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

   if 6.4999999999999999e-77 < b

   1. Initial program 21.2%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in 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 77.8

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

   5. Applied rewrites 77.8%

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

4. Final simplification 80.8%

   \[\leadsto \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -1.25 \cdot 10^{-31}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 6.5 \cdot 10^{-77}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\sqrt{\left(c \cdot a\right) \cdot -4} - b}{2 \cdot a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \end{array} \]
5. Add Preprocessing

Alternative 4: 67.3% accurate, 1.6× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -2 \cdot 10^{-310}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -2e-310) (- (/ c b) (/ b a)) (/ (- c) b)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -2e-310) {
		tmp = (c / b) - (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 <= (-2d-310)) then
        tmp = (c / b) - (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 <= -2e-310) {
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a);
	} else {
		tmp = -c / b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -2e-310:
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a)
	else:
		tmp = -c / b
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -2e-310)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(c / b) - 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 <= -2e-310)
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a);
	else
		tmp = -c / b;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -2e-310], N[(N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(b / a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < -1.999999999999994e-310

   1. Initial program 66.6%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   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 74.2

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

   5. Applied rewrites 74.2%

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

   7. Applied rewrites 74.4%

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

   if -1.999999999999994e-310 < b

   1. Initial program 38.2%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in 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 57.6

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

   5. Applied rewrites 57.6%

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

Alternative 5: 67.1% accurate, 2.5× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 3 \cdot 10^{-309}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-b}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c) :precision binary64 (if (<= b 3e-309) (/ (- b) a) (/ (- c) b)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 3e-309) {
		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 <= 3d-309) 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 <= 3e-309) {
		tmp = -b / a;
	} else {
		tmp = -c / b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= 3e-309:
		tmp = -b / a
	else:
		tmp = -c / b
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= 3e-309)
		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 <= 3e-309)
		tmp = -b / a;
	else
		tmp = -c / b;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, 3e-309], N[((-b) / a), $MachinePrecision], N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < 3.000000000000001e-309

   1. Initial program 66.6%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   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 73.4

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

   5. Applied rewrites 73.4%

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

   if 3.000000000000001e-309 < b

   1. Initial program 38.2%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in 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 57.6

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

   5. Applied rewrites 57.6%

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

Alternative 6: 42.8% accurate, 2.5× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 7.2 \cdot 10^{+26}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-b}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c) :precision binary64 (if (<= b 7.2e+26) (/ (- b) a) (/ c b)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 7.2e+26) {
		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 <= 7.2d+26) 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 <= 7.2e+26) {
		tmp = -b / a;
	} else {
		tmp = c / b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= 7.2e+26:
		tmp = -b / a
	else:
		tmp = c / b
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= 7.2e+26)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-b) / a);
	else
		tmp = Float64(c / b);
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b <= 7.2e+26)
		tmp = -b / a;
	else
		tmp = c / b;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, 7.2e+26], N[((-b) / a), $MachinePrecision], N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < 7.20000000000000048e26

   1. Initial program 65.0%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   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 49.4

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

   5. Applied rewrites 49.4%

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

   if 7.20000000000000048e26 < b

   1. Initial program 17.1%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in b around -inf

      \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(-1 \cdot \frac{c}{{b}^{2}} + \frac{1}{a}\right)\right)} \]
   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 2.6

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

   5. Applied rewrites 2.6%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in a around inf

      \[\leadsto \frac{c}{\color{blue}{b}} \]
   7. Step-by-step derivation

   8. Applied rewrites 21.9%

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

Alternative 7: 10.8% accurate, 4.2× speedup

Math

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

FPCore

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

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	return 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 = c / b
end function

Java

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

Python

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

Julia

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

MATLAB

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

Wolfram

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

Derivation

1. Initial program 51.7%

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

3. Taylor expanded in b around -inf

   \[\leadsto \color{blue}{-1 \cdot \left(b \cdot \left(-1 \cdot \frac{c}{{b}^{2}} + \frac{1}{a}\right)\right)} \]
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 36.6

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

5. Applied rewrites 36.6%

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

6. Taylor expanded in a around inf

   \[\leadsto \frac{c}{\color{blue}{b}} \]
7. Step-by-step derivation

8. Applied rewrites 8.2%

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

Developer Target 1: 71.0% accurate, 0.7× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} t_0 := \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}\\ \mathbf{if}\;b < 0:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\left(-b\right) + t\_0}{2 \cdot a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{a \cdot \frac{\left(-b\right) - t\_0}{2 \cdot a}}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (let* ((t_0 (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 4.0 a) c)))))
   (if (< b 0.0)
     (/ (+ (- b) t_0) (* 2.0 a))
     (/ c (* a (/ (- (- b) t_0) (* 2.0 a)))))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double t_0 = sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c)));
	double tmp;
	if (b < 0.0) {
		tmp = (-b + t_0) / (2.0 * a);
	} else {
		tmp = c / (a * ((-b - t_0) / (2.0 * a)));
	}
	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) :: t_0
    real(8) :: tmp
    t_0 = sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0d0 * a) * c)))
    if (b < 0.0d0) then
        tmp = (-b + t_0) / (2.0d0 * a)
    else
        tmp = c / (a * ((-b - t_0) / (2.0d0 * a)))
    end if
    code = tmp
end function

Java

public static double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double t_0 = Math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c)));
	double tmp;
	if (b < 0.0) {
		tmp = (-b + t_0) / (2.0 * a);
	} else {
		tmp = c / (a * ((-b - t_0) / (2.0 * a)));
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	t_0 = math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c)))
	tmp = 0
	if b < 0.0:
		tmp = (-b + t_0) / (2.0 * a)
	else:
		tmp = c / (a * ((-b - t_0) / (2.0 * a)))
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	t_0 = sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(Float64(4.0 * a) * c)))
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b < 0.0)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(Float64(-b) + t_0) / Float64(2.0 * a));
	else
		tmp = Float64(c / Float64(a * Float64(Float64(Float64(-b) - t_0) / Float64(2.0 * a))));
	end
	return tmp
end

MATLAB

function tmp_2 = code(a, b, c)
	t_0 = sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c)));
	tmp = 0.0;
	if (b < 0.0)
		tmp = (-b + t_0) / (2.0 * a);
	else
		tmp = c / (a * ((-b - t_0) / (2.0 * a)));
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := Block[{t$95$0 = N[Sqrt[N[(N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision] - N[(N[(4.0 * a), $MachinePrecision] * c), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]}, If[Less[b, 0.0], N[(N[((-b) + t$95$0), $MachinePrecision] / N[(2.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[(c / N[(a * N[(N[((-b) - t$95$0), $MachinePrecision] / N[(2.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]]]

Reproduce

herbie shell --seed 2024331 
(FPCore (a b c)
  :name "The quadratic formula (r1)"
  :precision binary64

  :alt
  (! :herbie-platform default (let ((d (- (* b b) (* (* 4 a) c)))) (let ((r1 (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt d)) (* 2 a)))) (let ((r2 (/ (- (- b) (sqrt d)) (* 2 a)))) (if (< b 0) r1 (/ c (* a r2)))))))

  (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 4.0 a) c)))) (* 2.0 a)))