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Definition of Number crunching
1. Noun. Performing complex and lengthy numerical calculations.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Number Crunching
Literary usage of Number crunching
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Clausewitzian Friction & Future War by Barry D. Watts (1996)
"Yes, as a practical matter the amount of repetitive number crunching involved in
any serious exploration demands machine assistance, and one does have to be ..."
2. Design and Analysis of Integrated Manufacturing Systems by W. Dale Compton (1988)
"These different subsystems—administrative operations, graphical interactions,
number crunching, batch processing, transaction processing, and real-time ..."
3. Energy Efficiency: Challenges and Trends for Electric Utilities (1993)
"Examples include security authentication, procedures for number crunching, formats
to display data, alert lists, logic algorithms, software for pattern ..."