Numerical Cruncher

Software package for Pattern Recognition


Fernando Berzal Galiano
berzal@acm.org



crunch
[from the Jargon File]

vi. To process, usually in a time-consuming or complicated way. Connotes an essentially trivial operation that is nonetheless painful to perform. The pain may be due to the triviality's being embedded in a loop from 1 to 1,000,000,000. "FORTRAN programs do mostly {number-crunching}."