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Energy differences between frozen core and all electrons correlated.
MP2, MP3, MP4, B2PLYP, CCSD, and CCSD(T)

For HCP+ (Phosphaethyne cation)

Energies in Hartree
Methods with standard basis sets
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ daug-cc-pVDZ daug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.001953 -0.007621 -0.015127 -0.005029 -0.015963 -0.016156 -0.017017 -0.142236 -0.142403 -0.028053 -0.189204 -0.046759 -0.009175 -0.055486 -0.079750 -0.010576 -0.060425 -0.081085 -0.011366 -0.062683
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000620 -0.002346 -0.004654 -0.001542 -0.004865 -0.004920 -0.005182 -0.041282 -0.041334 -0.008523 -0.055171 -0.013776 -0.002829 -0.016637   -0.003260 -0.018057   -0.003501 -0.018708
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.015505           -0.189855   -0.008654 -0.056083   -0.010068 -0.061236   -0.010864 -0.063563
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.015125         -0.026598 -0.187629 -0.046903 -0.008375 -0.054898 -0.080176 -0.009761 -0.060023 -0.081529 -0.010539 -0.062342
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.015510           -0.189818 -0.047706 -0.008657 -0.056071 -0.081715 -0.010070 -0.061222 -0.083081 -0.010866 -0.063548
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ daug-cc-pVDZ daug-cc-pVTZ