As already mentioned, spreadsheets are often thought of as the key number crunching application and therefore benefit most from a numeric coprocessor.
There are many apps you can run on your computer today that take advantage of the GPU for the more mundane number crunching tasks.
There is no mention in Moore's paper of simulations, encryption, or any of the other myriad number crunching applications that integrated circuits have revolutionized.
I'll look into all the funding available to me - do some number crunching with my mother.
Anne Templeton, a former acquisitions executive turned production executive, describes the video business now as "a lot more about numbers crunching."
Because we live in the age of cheap computer time, Dr. Maharam began some serious number crunching using data about his 10 runners.
"Then when I did some of the number crunching it didn't look so bad."
The second constraint that will shape how Moore's Law is applied is the current plateau in demand for more number crunching horsepower.
While the agency did what number crunching it could, it also had to rely heavily on interviews with market participants.
Publishers do engage in limited numbers crunching.