0 present participle of crunch --
1 to crush hard food loudly between the teeth, or to make a sound as if something is being crushed or broken: --
He said: "simple number crunching can be misleading".
They indulged in simple number crunching—how many tanks they have and how many we have.
Out go the number crunching, the minute counting and the detailed specific regulation that act as a barrier to creativity in our broadcasting environment.
I also believe it to be a mistake to allow issues of work, growth and competitiveness to be reduced to statistical number crunching.
It also introduces the idea of cross-tabulation, the preliminary procedure for the "number crunching" discussed in the next chapter.
This is the success story of numerical analysis, of this 'quantitative number crunching', and nothing should be allowed to obscure it.
Once we reach the ticking, clattering ostinato (in the film so memorably applied to the expedition ship crunching through pack-ice), things improve tremendously.
It exercises such abilities as parsing, input/output, recursive data structures and traditional number crunching.
