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

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

This will give decision makers essentially no choice but to deploy, and will give the fruits of your number crunching a chance to realize a business impact. — Eric Siegel, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 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