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number-crunching
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n. [common] Computations of a numerical nature, esp. those that make
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extensive use of floating-point numbers. The only thing Fortrash is good
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for. This term is in widespread informal use outside hackerdom and even in
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mainstream slang, but has additional hackish connotations: namely, that the
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computations are mindless and involve massive use of brute force. This is
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not always evil , esp. if it involves ray tracing or fractals or some other
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use that makes pretty pictures , esp. if such pictures can be used as screen
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backgrounds. See also crunch. Hydrodynamic number-crunching. (The next
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cartoon in the Crunchly saga is 74-12-29. The previous cartoon was 74-08-18.
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