HP Prime vs HP71 benchmark

[KeithB]

Thanks cyrille.
But you have a bug*. H is supposed to be the number of hits *inside* the circle, not outside. I had to add an extra count and subtract that from 10000 to get things to work.

Anyway, that does speed things up as you said, it now takes about 5.1 seconds for 50000 iterations. That makes the prime about 1650 times faster than the HP71.

BTW, what is up with the 'C like' for loop? It works without a syntax error, but is not documented. Is any expression allowed in the place of the from?

ETA: OOPS, I did not see that you had corrected the PI calculation to correct for this, sorry.