Definition of "number-crunching" []

• Any computing application that requires large amounts of numerical calculation (noun)

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• "That's about $180 billion in taxes from millionaires, according to number-crunching from the National Taxpayers Union."
• "The site that brought baseball's sabermetrics-style empirical number-crunching to football regularly combs the data for new and revolutionary statistics. footballoutsiders.com"
• "The data used to produce your figure IV makes it look as if you've done more or less all the number-crunching you need in order to do the nonparametric test so I don't understand why you don't just bite the bullet and do it."