Number Cruncher

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Number Cruncher

A slang term for an accountant or other financial worker.

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When I assumed my first studio job as a production executive, experienced colleagues warned, "Don't let the number crunchers push you around.

Will the number crunchers get crunched? Plus: hard numbers about the urge to merge ... and the bean-counter body count mounts

Unfortunately, today's most advanced number crunchers have neither the speed nor the storage capacity to handle more than a crude caricature of any given cosmic process.

PetaCrunchers: setting a course toward ultrafast supercomputing

Industry number crunchers AutoAnalysis now expect 1.73million cars to roll off production lines here, compared with its 1.9m estimate in May.

Experts have slashed forecasts for []; FINANCE

You would think that the number crunchers in Montrose would permit a rare moment of cheer in a workplace where staff are being asked repeatedly to suffer wage cuts and cut backs.

RTE loses fizz

Police number crunchers have identified hotspot streets for registration plate crime across south Birmingham.

Screws help fight crime

A group of 17-year-olds have been shown how number crunchers are vital to the workplace and are currently in high demand by employers.

Maths adds up

The bank's number crunchers have estimated how much students in the city, mainly studying at Coventry and Warwick universities, will spend over the year.

Students' pounds 200m city boost

The moss-covered plan to overhaul the New York Times' arts and cultural coverage has finally headed upstairs for the paper's number crunchers to mull.

Times' arts overhaul gets some fresh ink

For the heavy number crunchers, HP has two 64-bit Itanium-based workstations.

Faster [and] faster go the workstations: workstations are faster, cheaper. This is new? No, except that we really mean faster and cheaper. (Digital Domain)

Here at Ladbrokes HQ our number crunchers have been sending the computers into meltdown as they work out how much money UK punters have saved since the dreaded tax was done away with.

BOYCIE THE BOOKIE: Thanks a billion for that tax cut, Gordon

Number crunchers at Yorkshire Bank have worked out just where the money will be going.

Personal Finance: Say it with flowers: Valentine's Day brings out the big spenders

A decade ago, some supercomputer proponents had predicted that high-speed number crunchers would eventually make the wind tunnel obsolete (SN: 9/29/84, p.200).