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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}."
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