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

For H2O3 (Hydrogen trioxide)

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 aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000281 -0.005449 -0.005449 -0.003132 -0.007266 -0.007522 -0.008243 -0.055915 -0.056135 -0.020866 -0.051294 -0.006397 -0.038665 -0.089586 -0.007199 -0.044109
MP3=FULL         -0.006609   -0.023812                  
MP4=FULL   -0.005030     -0.006619       -0.056946     -0.005773 -0.038468   -0.006553 -0.044168
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.006490           -0.052227 -0.005657 -0.038057 -0.091028 -0.006411 -0.043828
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.006574           -0.052493 -0.005739 -0.038382 -0.091880 -0.006510 -0.044105
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 aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ