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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>number-crunching</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../N.html" title="N"/><link rel="previous" href="nuke.html" title="nuke"/><link rel="next" href="numbers.html" title="numbers"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">number-crunching</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="nuke.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">N</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="numbers.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="number-crunching"/><dt xmlns="" id="number-crunching"><b>number-crunching</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common] Computations of a numerical nature, esp. those that make
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extensive use of floating-point numbers. The only thing
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<a href="../F/Fortrash.html"><i class="glossterm">Fortrash</i></a> is good for. This term is in widespread
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informal use outside hackerdom and even in mainstream slang, but has
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additional hackish connotations: namely, that the computations are mindless
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and involve massive use of <a href="../B/brute-force.html"><i class="glossterm">brute force</i></a>. This is not
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always <a href="../E/evil.html"><i class="glossterm">evil</i></a>, esp. if it involves ray tracing or
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fractals or some other use that makes
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<a href="../P/pretty-pictures.html"><i class="glossterm">pretty pictures</i></a>, esp. if such pictures can be used as screen
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backgrounds. See also <a href="../C/crunch.html"><i class="glossterm">crunch</i></a>.</p><div class="mediaobject"><a id="crunchly74-12-25"/><img src="../graphics/74-12-25.png"/><div class="caption"><p>Hydrodynamic <a href="number-crunching.html"><i class="glossterm">number-crunching</i></a>.</p><p>(The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is
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<a href="../W/winged-comments.html#crunchly74-12-29">74-12-29</a>. The previous
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cartoon was <a href="../W/water-MIPS.html#crunchly74-08-18">74-08-18</a>.)</p></div></div></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="nuke.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../N.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="numbers.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">nuke </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> numbers</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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