/** Ahl's simple benchmark, Creative Computing March 1984, P. 6 https://archive.org/details/CreativeComputingbetterScan198403/page/n7/mode/1up */ for times = 1 to 200 { start = now[] s = 0 r = 0 for n = 1 to 100 { a = n for i = 1 to 10 { a = sqrt[a,prec] r = r + randomFloat[0,1] } for i = 1 to 10 { a = a^2 r = r + randomFloat[0,1] } s = s + a } println["Accuracy: " + abs[1010-s/5]] println["Random: " + formatFix[abs[1000-r], 1, 1]] end = now[] println["Time: " + ((end-start) -> "ms")] println[] }