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- noun computing Any
computing application that requires large amounts ofnumerical calculation
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Examples
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That's about $180 billion in taxes from millionaires, according to number-crunching from the National Taxpayers Union.
FOXNews.com 2011
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SketchUp is becoming to drawing what Word processors are to writing or Spreadsheets are to number-crunching.
Model Your Home, Plan Improvements In 3D With Google Sketchup | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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With results mysteriously missing from one county as the number-crunching spilled into the wee hours, CNN After Dark check out that sleazy neon logo called two Clinton County GOP officials, Edith Pfeffer and Carolyn Tallett, to shed light on the matter.
Top Moments: Revenge's Stalker Problem and Vampire Diaries' Big Kiss 2012
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Reading Brad Schiller's analysis of the poor job creation results produced so far by President Obama's stimulus policies brings back memories of media number-crunching during President George W. Bush's "jobless recovery" in 2004.
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The deal builds on IBM's focus on offering complex number-crunching applications to help customers make business decisions.
IBM Pays Premium for DemandTec Matt Jarzemsky 2011
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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.
IQ and Living Standards, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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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 Yanks Lost? Sell! Sell! Sell! Luke O'Neil 2011
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To get it to 3%, a level many economists deem sustainable, by 2015 solely by raising taxes on $250,000-plus households would require more than doubling their top tax rate to 76.8%, according to the Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan number-crunching think tank.
Budget Solution: Squeeze the Middle Sara Murray 2011
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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.
IQ and Living Standards, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The graphics chips are used to accelerate the number-crunching functions most often carried out by so-called x86 chips, which evolved from personal computing and have long dominated supercomputing.
U.S. Plans Supercomputer Push Shara Tibken 2011
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