number-crunching

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

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Hydrodynamic {number-crunching}.

(The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is 74-12-29. The previous cartoon was 74-08-18.)

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