NUMBER CRUNCHING Synonyms: 23 Similar Words

number crunching

noun

Definition of number crunching

as in calculation

the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value he did a little number crunching and made an offer on the house

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Recent Examples of number crunching As close cycles compress and reporting accelerates, finance professionals can spend less time on reconciliation and number crunching and more time on analysis and business partnership. — Hemant Kapadia, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026 The stream — called the Kornacki Cam — provides unadulterated number crunching without any pundits weighing in. — Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026 In this case, instead of having equipment capable of all that processing power stored in massive warehouses, each satellite in orbit would do a small part of the number crunching and then beam the final results back to the ground. — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2026 Setting the odds for a game was more a matter of delicate intuition than wonkish number crunching. — Dan Piepenbring, New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2026 Opponents said Antoni — who has spent most of his career at right-wing think tanks — lacked the expertise in statistical number crunching that's typical of previous BLS commissioners. — Scott Horsley, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025 Pretraining is where most of the number crunching happens, and what follows is usually fine-tuning, which refines the model for specific tasks. — Dina Genkina, IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2025

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Noun

Warner said that, by Accenture’s calculations, the pace shows no sign of slowing until something approaching 2030.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026
The group's calculations exclude automobile dealers, gasoline stations and restaurants.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of calculation

Noun

English and math scores in the Sacramento area’s largest school districts, as in California overall, have yet to return to pre-pandemic levels, according to results released this week.

— Chaewon Chung October 17, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Throw in a third massive object, though, and the math gets ridiculously more complicated and difficult to solve.

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of math

Noun

Solving a memory problem One particularly notable result concerns modular inversion, a mathematical operation used in elliptic-curve arithmetic.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026
Swagel cautioned against doing arithmetic on the fly but offered some back-of-the-envelope numbers.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of arithmetic

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