---
title: "Benchmark"
type: "article"
slug: "benchmark"
url: "http://localhost/article/benchmark/"
markdown_url: "http://localhost/article/benchmark.md"
published_at: "2025-07-27T01:48:51+00:00"
modified_at: "2025-07-27T01:49:31+00:00"
featured_image:
  url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20230809-041332.jpg"
excerpt: "In the days of David AhI’s Creative Computing, they occasionally published a test of computation speed and accuracy. The algorithm is repeated here in Sinclair Basic. Timex/Sinclair computers are not speed demons, but they are not bad as number crunchers."
category:
  - name: "The Data Expansion"
    slug: "the-data-expansion"
    taxonomy: "category"
    url: "http://localhost/category/periodicals/the-data-expansion/"
post_tag:
  - name: "TS 1000"
    slug: "ts1000"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/ts1000/"
  - name: "TS 2068"
    slug: "ts2068"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/ts2068/"
  - name: "Type-in program"
    slug: "type-in-program"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/type-in-program/"
model:
  - name: "Timex/Sinclair 1000"
    slug: "ts-1000"
    taxonomy: "model"
    url: "http://localhost/model/ts-1000/"
  - name: "Timex/Sinclair 2068"
    slug: "ts-2068"
    taxonomy: "model"
    url: "http://localhost/model/ts-2068/"
publication_r:
  id: 50143
  title: "The Data Expansion"
  type: "periodical"
  url: "http://localhost/periodical/the-data-expansion/"
volume: "5"
issue: "3"
issues_articles:
  - id: 50245
    title: "The Data Expansion v5 n3"
    type: "issue"
    url: "http://localhost/issue/the-data-expansion-v5-n3/"
pages: "23-24"
pubdate: "March 1988"
archive_link: false
---

In the days of [David AhI’s](http://localhost/indiv/ahl-david/) [Creative Computing](http://localhost/periodical/creative-computing/), they occasionally published a test of computation speed and accuracy. The algorithm is repeated here in Sinclair Basic. Timex/Sinclair computers are not speed demons, but they are not bad as number crunchers.