Synonyms of number crunching

number crunching

noun

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• calculation
• math
• arithmetic
• numbers
• figures
• mathematics
• computation
• figuring
• reckoning
• calculus
• estimation
• measurement
• ciphering
• addition
• multiplication
• assessment
• calibration
• subtraction
• evaluation
• appraisal
• valuation
• division
• mensuration

Example Sentences

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