mathematicalworkperformedbypeopleorcomputersthat is oftenquitesimplebuttakesalongtime
(简单但费时的)捣弄数字;进行运算
Examplesofnumber-crunching
number-crunching
In many instances, these computer simulations are not simplenumber-crunchingtechniques.
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Some of us, perhaps a little intimidated, worried that we had lost one of our finest intellectual historians tonumber-crunching.
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We had two golden rules when we were carrying out all the planning andnumber-crunching.
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Those factors are identifiable by virtue of various heavy correlativenumber-crunchingexercises.
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The children are notnumber-crunchingmaterial to their parents or to me, but at least we were offered the prospect of something better.
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He added that policing was not just aboutnumber-crunching, record burglary detection rates or street robbery initiatives.
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He characterizes the modern trend of high estimates as pseudo-scientificnumber-crunching.
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She attends her first-period math class, taught by the new principal, but instead of usualnumber-crunching, she starts speaking about feelings and smell in math.
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Media accounts describe him as having a reputation as anumber-crunchingpolitician with a phenomenal memory and an unerring survival instinct.
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Number-crunchingis precisely what elections are about: that is the essence of them.
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Number-crunchingalone is no longer enough.
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