number crunching

British  

noun

1. computing the large-scale processing of numerical data

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Other Word Forms

• number cruncher noun

Example Sentences

"It needs to stop number crunching and get itself down the pub."

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2026

SYDNEY—There’s plenty of number crunching going on among economists at Australia’s big banks about the potential for an interest-rate increase as early as February.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

Different observations of the same asteroid can be separated farther in time and distance, and the algorithm needs to perform more number crunching to make the connections.

From New York Times • May 31, 2022

Reflecting an early stage in the number crunching, the documents show that 10% to 20% of questions were not answered in the 2020 census, depending on the question and state.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 8, 2021

The kabbalah was much more than number crunching; it was a tradition so mystical that some scholars say that it bears a striking resemblance to Hinduism.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife