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O que (quem) é number crunching - definição

Number crunching

number crunching         
<application, jargon> Computations of a numerical nature, especially those that make extensive use of floating-point numbers. The only thing Fortrash is good for. This term is in widespread informal use outside hackerdom and even in mainstream slang, but has additional hackish connotations: namely, that the computations are mindless and involve massive use of brute force. This is not always evil, especially if it involves ray tracing or fractals or some other use that makes pretty pictures, especially if such pictures can be used as wallpaper. See also crunch. [Jargon File] (1995-03-17)
number crunching         
If you refer to number crunching, you mean activities or processes concerned with numbers or mathematical calculation, for example in finance, statistics, or computing. (INFORMAL)
The computer does most of the number crunching.
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number cruncher         
(number crunchers)
If you refer to number crunchers, you mean people whose jobs involve dealing with numbers or mathematical calculations, for example in finance or statistics. (INFORMAL)
Even if the recovery is under way, it may be some time before the official number crunchers confirm it.
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Exemplos do corpo de texto para number crunching
1. Some number–crunching has been done for known species.
2. By the 1'60s, nearly all the number–crunching was being done by machines.
3. I became a nurse to look after patients and deliver a high standard of care, not to take part in a number crunching exercise.
4. But caught up in the number–crunching is the future of Britain‘s 21–year old budget rebate and the long–standing wrangle over the Common Agricultural Policy.
5. So why, amid Vanity Fair magazine‘s pungent mix of glamour and politics, has space been found for two computer geeks number–crunching in a barren office in Estonia?