Do Some Number Crunching?

If you refer to number crunching, you mean activities or processes concerned with numbers or mathematical calculation, for example in finance, statistics, or computing. The computer does most of the number crunching.

What is number crunching?

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.

Why is it called number crunching?

What is the origin of the phrase to "crunch the numbers"? According to The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms the term has an electronics & Computer Science entomology as a slang term from the second half of 1900s. It refers to large-scale processing of numerical data often by mainframe computers.