number crunching

noun

Definition of number crunchingnext
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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  1. calculation
  2. math
  3. arithmetic
Noun
  • The United States’ ranking is held down by its lack of reciprocity, according to how Henley & Partners makes its calculations.
    Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Crutchfield, a former math teacher who never played college basketball and coached tennis before getting his big D-II break at West Liberty University, sees the game like a math problem and has created his own calculations.
    CJ Moore, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of calculation
Noun
  • His interest in sports analytics comes from his math teacher father, who handed out rulers to Trick-or-Treaters each year.
    Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 4 Jan. 2025
  • According to the Personal Bond/Bail Order, Gonzales was granted custody of Perez and received disability payments for the girl, who had the math and reading level of a first grader.
    KC Baker, People.com, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of math
Noun
  • So tariff revenue will not be as high as our initial arithmetic shows, but the loss of consumer welfare will be in the ballpark of that initial figure.
    Bill Conerly, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Expanding that field into the new 12-team iteration changes that often-infuriating arithmetic that left deserving teams like Florida State last season, Texas A&M in 2020, UCF in 2017 and Baylor and TCU in 2014 cursing the way college football crowned a champion.
    David Ubben, The Athletic, 26 Aug. 2024
Definition of arithmetic
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