Summation based benchmark for calculators

[AlexFekken]

(12-23-2017 09:59 AM)pier4r Wrote:  I was thinking about alternate series (using sin or cos) but at the end it would be similar. It is repeating thousands of times the same functions.

I did not just mean "calling the same functions", but "calling the same functions with almost exactly the same (perhaps even the same) argument". I would say that any proper benchmark should call whatever functions it calls with a decent spread of the inputs. Using atan for (mainly) large values and then passing the almost constant result into sin (near an extremum!) pretty much garantees the exact opposite of that.

Just my 2c of course...