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• chemist n. [Cambridge] Someone who wastes computer time on number-crunching when you'd far rather the machine were doing something more productive
  uch as working out anagrams of your name or printing Snoopy calendars or running life patterns....
• cray /kray/ n. 1. (properly, capitalized) One of the line of supercomputers designed by Cray Research.
  2. Any supercomputer at all. 3. The canonical number-crunching machine....
• chemist: [Cambridge] n. Someone who wastes computer time on {number-crunching} when you'd far rather the machine were doing something more productive
  uch as working out anagrams of your name or printing Snoopy calendars or running {life} patterns....
• cray: /kray/ n. 1. (properly, capitalized) One of the line of supercomputers designed by Cray Research.
  2. Any supercomputer at all. 3. The {canonical} {number-crunching} machine....
• The number one cause of computer problems is computer solutions.
• The number of computer scientists in a room is inversely proportional to the number of bugs in their code.
• big iron n. [common] Large, expensive, ultra-fast computers.
  Used generally of number-crunching supercomputers such as Crays, but can include more conventional big commercial IBMish mainframes....
• codes n. [scientific computing] Programs. This usage is common in people who hack supercomputers and heavy-duty number-crunching
  are to unknown elsewhere (if you say "codes" to hackers outside scientific computing, their first association is likely to be "and cyphers")....