2013/9/22 Vladislav Stevanovic <[email protected]>

> Hello,
>  I found on page for Calc next:  "Newcomers find it intuitive and easy to
> learn; professional data miners and number crunchers will
> appreciate the comprehensive range of advanced functions."
> "Crunchers " are persons who deal with numerical data or "number crunchers"
> means " program processor numerical data"?
>

According to WordNet(1)

number cruncher

1. someone able to perform complex and lengthy calculations

2. a computer capable of performing a large number of mathematical
operations per second


(1) http://wordnet.princeton.edu/
I highly recommend to always have WordNet at hand. I use it with GoldenDict
http://goldendict.org/
http://goldendict.org/screenshots.php?show=wordnet
but there are other front ends too.

Regards,
Ricardo



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> Regards,
> Wlada
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