While initial number-crunching at CERN suggests the new particle has spin zero, more proof is needed.
Even so, it requires a great deal of number-crunching, and therefore lots of computer power.
Clearly we cannot trust our intuition about what can and cannot be achieved by mere number-crunching.
This is the chipmaker's smallest processor, designed specifically for low-cost and portable devices, not for intensive number-crunching.
For others, the number-crunching crowd conjures up painful images of Long-Term Capital Management, the band of Ph.
If Daniel Oppenheim plays to the stereotype of the number-crunching earnings forecaster, Budd Bugatch, furnishings analyst at St.
Then comes number-crunching to figure out how many birch trees would have to be tapped to turn a profit.
Republicans are also hopeful that a new crowd of friends of dynamic scoring is set to run important number-crunching organisations.
Intriguingly, there are signs that the official rules for number-crunching may be shifting just as the affordability debate hots up.
Mining involves solving a hard mathematical problem and miners typically use large numbers of computers to speed up the number-crunching involved.
Others worry that urban research could, just like other fields of study, start to put number-crunching ahead of other important questions.
Rather than emulating the complex thought-processes of human players, computers simply resort to mindless number-crunching to decide what move to make.
Yet none of those fields seems to be suffering unduly from information overload because the physical sciences are founded on number-crunching.
Many scientists have started using graphics cards as number-crunching engines because they are cheaper and easier to use than traditional supercomputers.
XLeratorDB, from WestClinTech in Irvington, NY, says it extends the analytic and number-crunching capabilities of Excel into the SQL Server database.
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Fortunately for us number-crunching analysts, not many companies are currently operating there.
Generally the true number-crunching baseball intellectual can be found toiling away at a spreadsheet behind the scenes, not manning the anchor desk.
Orszag, despite his image as a number-crunching technocrat, considers himself an activist.
Among them are routine but vital tasks that were labour-intensive before the computing revolution: manufacturing and number-crunching jobs that used to pay handsomely.
Our baseball number-crunching shows the 1975 Cincinnati Reds, a 108-54 club with three Hall of Famers in its lineup, as baseball's all-time greatest team.
Their number-crunching reached a nadir in the more recent mortgage debacle, which was exacerbated by their willingness to award AAA ratings to thousands of structured-mortgage time-bombs.
And the U-T San Diego newspaper's belief in a Romney landslide is based more on faith in the country's fury with the president than number-crunching.
That's a lot of fast number-crunching: Microsoft figures there are something like 10 to the 23rd power "degrees of freedom, " or possible positions, for a human body.
The number-crunching is spliced between lively interviews with people ranging from government officials to commercial sex workers (of both sexes), doctors, armed rebels, housewives and many others.
PS2's central processor, a 128-bit microprocessor developed by Sony and Toshiba, has twice the raw number-crunching power of Intel's most advanced Pentium chip used in professional desktop computers.
Berman's firm was thriving spitting out VAR calculations, but he was convinced that such number-crunching was only a sliver of what was required to gauge an institution's overall riskiness.
His career has been largely one of number-crunching perseverance, away from the public eye, in such glamorous haunts as the state statistics institute and the national economic planning organisation.
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In the case of Major League Baseball, as Michael Lewis showed in "Moneyball, " the Oakland A's won for a time with their number-crunching strategy, but the team faced a host of imitators after a few seasons.
There were a few raised eyebrows about its number-crunching (helloo Amazon, breaking out the different categories according to their sales revenues would have been more telling), but all in all it was a striking announcement.
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