The quadratic formula (r1)

Percentage Accurate: 52.2% → 85.3%

Time: 8.5s

Alternatives: 8

Speedup: 2.5×

Specification

Math

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

FPCore

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

C

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

Fortran

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

Java

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

Python

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

Julia

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

MATLAB

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

Wolfram

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

Initial Program: 52.2% 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: 85.3% accurate, 0.7× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -3.8 \cdot 10^{+156}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-b}{a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 4.5 \cdot 10^{-46}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{b}{-2 \cdot a} + \frac{\sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(a, -4 \cdot c, b \cdot b\right)}}{2 \cdot a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -3.8e+156)
   (/ (- b) a)
   (if (<= b 4.5e-46)
     (+ (/ b (* -2.0 a)) (/ (sqrt (fma a (* -4.0 c) (* b b))) (* 2.0 a)))
     (/ (- c) b))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -3.8e+156) {
		tmp = -b / a;
	} else if (b <= 4.5e-46) {
		tmp = (b / (-2.0 * a)) + (sqrt(fma(a, (-4.0 * c), (b * b))) / (2.0 * a));
	} else {
		tmp = -c / b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -3.8e+156)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-b) / a);
	elseif (b <= 4.5e-46)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(b / Float64(-2.0 * a)) + Float64(sqrt(fma(a, Float64(-4.0 * c), Float64(b * b))) / Float64(2.0 * a)));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-c) / b);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -3.8e+156], N[((-b) / a), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 4.5e-46], N[(N[(b / N[(-2.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] + N[(N[Sqrt[N[(a * N[(-4.0 * c), $MachinePrecision] + N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision] / N[(2.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -3.80000000000000024e156

   1. Initial program 44.0%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   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. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

      3. mul-1-neg N/A

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

      4. lower-neg.f64 100.0

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

   5. Applied rewrites 100.0%

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

   if -3.80000000000000024e156 < b < 4.50000000000000001e-46

   1. Initial program 80.7%

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

   4. Applied rewrites 80.7%

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

      1. lift-/.f64 N/A

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

      2. lift-+.f64 N/A

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

      3. div-add N/A

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

      4. lower-+.f64 N/A

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

      5. lift-*.f64 N/A

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

      6. *-commutative N/A

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

      7. associate-/r* N/A

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

      8. lift-/.f64 N/A

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

      9. frac-2neg N/A

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

      10. lift-/.f64 N/A

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

      11. distribute-frac-neg2 N/A

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

      12. lift-neg.f64 N/A

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

      13. frac-2neg N/A

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

      14. lift-/.f64 N/A

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

      15. metadata-eval N/A

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

      16. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

      17. lower-/.f64 80.7

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

   6. Applied rewrites 80.7%

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

      1. lift-/.f64 N/A

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

      2. lift-/.f64 N/A

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

      3. associate-/l/ N/A

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

      4. *-commutative N/A

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

      5. lift-*.f64 N/A

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

      6. lower-/.f64 80.7

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

   8. Applied rewrites 80.7%

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

   if 4.50000000000000001e-46 < b

   1. Initial program 11.6%

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

   3. 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. mul-1-neg N/A

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

      3. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

      4. lower-neg.f64 88.4

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

   5. Applied rewrites 88.4%

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

Alternative 2: 85.3% accurate, 0.8× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -3.8 \cdot 10^{+156}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-b}{a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 4.5 \cdot 10^{-46}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -3.8e+156)
   (/ (- b) a)
   (if (<= b 4.5e-46)
     (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (- (* b b) (* (* 4.0 a) c)))) (* 2.0 a))
     (/ (- c) b))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -3.8e+156) {
		tmp = -b / a;
	} else if (b <= 4.5e-46) {
		tmp = (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c)))) / (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 <= (-3.8d+156)) then
        tmp = -b / a
    else if (b <= 4.5d-46) then
        tmp = (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0d0 * a) * c)))) / (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 <= -3.8e+156) {
		tmp = -b / a;
	} else if (b <= 4.5e-46) {
		tmp = (-b + Math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c)))) / (2.0 * a);
	} else {
		tmp = -c / b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -3.8e+156:
		tmp = -b / a
	elif b <= 4.5e-46:
		tmp = (-b + math.sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c)))) / (2.0 * a)
	else:
		tmp = -c / b
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -3.8e+156)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-b) / a);
	elseif (b <= 4.5e-46)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(Float64(-b) + sqrt(Float64(Float64(b * b) - Float64(Float64(4.0 * a) * c)))) / 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 <= -3.8e+156)
		tmp = -b / a;
	elseif (b <= 4.5e-46)
		tmp = (-b + sqrt(((b * b) - ((4.0 * a) * c)))) / (2.0 * a);
	else
		tmp = -c / b;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -3.8e+156], N[((-b) / a), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 4.5e-46], 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], N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -3.80000000000000024e156

   1. Initial program 44.0%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   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. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

      3. mul-1-neg N/A

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

      4. lower-neg.f64 100.0

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

   5. Applied rewrites 100.0%

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

   if -3.80000000000000024e156 < b < 4.50000000000000001e-46

   1. Initial program 80.7%

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

   if 4.50000000000000001e-46 < b

   1. Initial program 11.6%

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

   3. 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. mul-1-neg N/A

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

      3. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

      4. lower-neg.f64 88.4

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

   5. Applied rewrites 88.4%

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

Alternative 3: 85.3% accurate, 0.8× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -3.8 \cdot 10^{+156}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-b}{a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 4.5 \cdot 10^{-46}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{\mathsf{fma}\left(c \cdot -4, a, b \cdot b\right)}}{2 \cdot a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -3.8e+156)
   (/ (- b) a)
   (if (<= b 4.5e-46)
     (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (fma (* c -4.0) a (* b b)))) (* 2.0 a))
     (/ (- c) b))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -3.8e+156) {
		tmp = -b / a;
	} else if (b <= 4.5e-46) {
		tmp = (-b + sqrt(fma((c * -4.0), a, (b * b)))) / (2.0 * a);
	} else {
		tmp = -c / b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -3.8e+156)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-b) / a);
	elseif (b <= 4.5e-46)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(Float64(-b) + sqrt(fma(Float64(c * -4.0), a, Float64(b * b)))) / Float64(2.0 * a));
	else
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-c) / b);
	end
	return tmp
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -3.8e+156], N[((-b) / a), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 4.5e-46], N[(N[((-b) + N[Sqrt[N[(N[(c * -4.0), $MachinePrecision] * a + N[(b * b), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(2.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -3.80000000000000024e156

   1. Initial program 44.0%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   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. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

      3. mul-1-neg N/A

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

      4. lower-neg.f64 100.0

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

   5. Applied rewrites 100.0%

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

   if -3.80000000000000024e156 < b < 4.50000000000000001e-46

   1. Initial program 80.7%

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

   4. Applied rewrites 80.7%

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

   if 4.50000000000000001e-46 < b

   1. Initial program 11.6%

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

   3. 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. mul-1-neg N/A

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

      3. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

      4. lower-neg.f64 88.4

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

   5. Applied rewrites 88.4%

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

Alternative 4: 79.6% accurate, 0.9× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -0.0085:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-b}{a}\\ \mathbf{elif}\;b \leq 9 \cdot 10^{-47}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{\left(c \cdot a\right) \cdot -4}}{2 \cdot a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -0.0085)
   (/ (- b) a)
   (if (<= b 9e-47)
     (/ (+ (- b) (sqrt (* (* c a) -4.0))) (* 2.0 a))
     (/ (- c) b))))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -0.0085) {
		tmp = -b / a;
	} else if (b <= 9e-47) {
		tmp = (-b + sqrt(((c * a) * -4.0))) / (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 <= (-0.0085d0)) then
        tmp = -b / a
    else if (b <= 9d-47) then
        tmp = (-b + sqrt(((c * a) * (-4.0d0)))) / (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 <= -0.0085) {
		tmp = -b / a;
	} else if (b <= 9e-47) {
		tmp = (-b + Math.sqrt(((c * a) * -4.0))) / (2.0 * a);
	} else {
		tmp = -c / b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -0.0085:
		tmp = -b / a
	elif b <= 9e-47:
		tmp = (-b + math.sqrt(((c * a) * -4.0))) / (2.0 * a)
	else:
		tmp = -c / b
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -0.0085)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(-b) / a);
	elseif (b <= 9e-47)
		tmp = Float64(Float64(Float64(-b) + sqrt(Float64(Float64(c * a) * -4.0))) / 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 <= -0.0085)
		tmp = -b / a;
	elseif (b <= 9e-47)
		tmp = (-b + sqrt(((c * a) * -4.0))) / (2.0 * a);
	else
		tmp = -c / b;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -0.0085], N[((-b) / a), $MachinePrecision], If[LessEqual[b, 9e-47], N[(N[((-b) + N[Sqrt[N[(N[(c * a), $MachinePrecision] * -4.0), $MachinePrecision]], $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision] / N[(2.0 * a), $MachinePrecision]), $MachinePrecision], N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision]]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 3 regimes

2. if b < -0.0085000000000000006

   1. Initial program 59.7%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in b around -inf

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

      1. associate-*r/ N/A

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

      2. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

      3. mul-1-neg N/A

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

      4. lower-neg.f64 97.1

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

   5. Applied rewrites 97.1%

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

   if -0.0085000000000000006 < b < 9e-47

   1. Initial program 77.4%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in 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. *-commutative N/A

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

      2. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      3. *-commutative N/A

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

      4. lower-*.f64 65.0

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

   5. Applied rewrites 65.0%

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

   if 9e-47 < b

   1. Initial program 11.6%

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

   3. 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. mul-1-neg N/A

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

      3. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

      4. lower-neg.f64 88.4

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

   5. Applied rewrites 88.4%

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

Alternative 5: 67.0% accurate, 1.6× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq -5 \cdot 10^{-310}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b} - \frac{b}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c)
 :precision binary64
 (if (<= b -5e-310) (- (/ c b) (/ b a)) (/ (- c) b)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= -5e-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 <= (-5d-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 <= -5e-310) {
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a);
	} else {
		tmp = -c / b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= -5e-310:
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a)
	else:
		tmp = -c / b
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= -5e-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 <= -5e-310)
		tmp = (c / b) - (b / a);
	else
		tmp = -c / b;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, -5e-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 < -4.999999999999985e-310

   1. Initial program 69.6%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   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. lower-neg.f64 N/A

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

      3. distribute-rgt-in N/A

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

      4. associate-*l/ N/A

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

      5. *-lft-identity N/A

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

      6. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      7. associate-*r/ N/A

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

      8. mul-1-neg N/A

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

      9. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

      10. lower-neg.f64 N/A

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

      11. unpow2 N/A

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

      12. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      13. lower-/.f64 66.2

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

   5. Applied rewrites 66.2%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in c around 0

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

   8. Applied rewrites 68.1%

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

   if -4.999999999999985e-310 < b

   1. Initial program 33.4%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in 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. mul-1-neg N/A

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

      3. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

      4. lower-neg.f64 61.5

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

   5. Applied rewrites 61.5%

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

Alternative 6: 66.8% accurate, 2.5× speedup

Math

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

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c) :precision binary64 (if (<= b 1e-309) (/ (- b) a) (/ (- c) b)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 1e-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 <= 1d-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 <= 1e-309) {
		tmp = -b / a;
	} else {
		tmp = -c / b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= 1e-309:
		tmp = -b / a
	else:
		tmp = -c / b
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= 1e-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 <= 1e-309)
		tmp = -b / a;
	else
		tmp = -c / b;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, 1e-309], N[((-b) / a), $MachinePrecision], N[((-c) / b), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < 1.000000000000002e-309

   1. Initial program 69.6%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   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. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

      3. mul-1-neg N/A

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

      4. lower-neg.f64 67.5

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

   5. Applied rewrites 67.5%

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

   if 1.000000000000002e-309 < b

   1. Initial program 33.4%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in 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. mul-1-neg N/A

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

      3. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

      4. lower-neg.f64 61.5

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

   5. Applied rewrites 61.5%

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

Alternative 7: 42.3% accurate, 2.5× speedup

Math

\[\begin{array}{l} \\ \begin{array}{l} \mathbf{if}\;b \leq 3.7 \cdot 10^{+98}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{-b}{a}\\ \mathbf{else}:\\ \;\;\;\;\frac{c}{b}\\ \end{array} \end{array} \]

FPCore

(FPCore (a b c) :precision binary64 (if (<= b 3.7e+98) (/ (- b) a) (/ c b)))

C

double code(double a, double b, double c) {
	double tmp;
	if (b <= 3.7e+98) {
		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 <= 3.7d+98) 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 <= 3.7e+98) {
		tmp = -b / a;
	} else {
		tmp = c / b;
	}
	return tmp;
}

Python

def code(a, b, c):
	tmp = 0
	if b <= 3.7e+98:
		tmp = -b / a
	else:
		tmp = c / b
	return tmp

Julia

function code(a, b, c)
	tmp = 0.0
	if (b <= 3.7e+98)
		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 <= 3.7e+98)
		tmp = -b / a;
	else
		tmp = c / b;
	end
	tmp_2 = tmp;
end

Wolfram

code[a_, b_, c_] := If[LessEqual[b, 3.7e+98], N[((-b) / a), $MachinePrecision], N[(c / b), $MachinePrecision]]

Derivation

1. Split input into 2 regimes

2. if b < 3.6999999999999999e98

   1. Initial program 64.3%

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

   3. Taylor expanded in b around -inf

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

      1. associate-*r/ N/A

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

      2. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

      3. mul-1-neg N/A

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

      4. lower-neg.f64 42.3

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

   5. Applied rewrites 42.3%

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

   if 3.6999999999999999e98 < b

   1. Initial program 5.7%

      \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
   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. lower-neg.f64 N/A

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

      3. distribute-rgt-in N/A

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

      4. associate-*l/ N/A

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

      5. *-lft-identity N/A

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

      6. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

      7. associate-*r/ N/A

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

      8. mul-1-neg N/A

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

      9. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

      10. lower-neg.f64 N/A

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

      11. unpow2 N/A

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

      12. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

      13. lower-/.f64 2.7

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

   5. Applied rewrites 2.7%

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

   6. Taylor expanded in a around inf

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

   8. Applied rewrites 32.0%

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

Alternative 8: 10.5% 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 50.1%

   \[\frac{\left(-b\right) + \sqrt{b \cdot b - \left(4 \cdot a\right) \cdot c}}{2 \cdot a} \]
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. lower-neg.f64 N/A

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

   3. distribute-rgt-in N/A

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

   4. associate-*l/ N/A

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

   5. *-lft-identity N/A

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

   6. lower-fma.f64 N/A

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

   7. associate-*r/ N/A

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

   8. mul-1-neg N/A

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

   9. lower-/.f64 N/A

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

   10. lower-neg.f64 N/A

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

   11. unpow2 N/A

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

   12. lower-*.f64 N/A

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

   13. lower-/.f64 31.8

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

5. Applied rewrites 31.8%

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

6. Taylor expanded in a around inf

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

8. Applied rewrites 9.9%

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

Developer Target 1: 69.9% 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 2024343 
(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)))