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

For Ca2 (Calcium diatomic)

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) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.008899 -0.002698 -0.010874 -0.000141 -0.000238 -0.000238 -0.000260 -0.215926 -0.215926 -0.001838 -0.062184 -0.183716 -0.347543 -0.452797
MP3=FULL         -0.000197   -0.000216       -0.065988 -0.192212 -0.365520  
MP4=FULL   -0.002649     -0.000216       -0.210151     -0.193380 -0.370390  
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.000203           -0.065800 -0.189198 -0.360991 -0.472731
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.000213           -0.067078 -0.192454 -0.368852 -0.487184
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ