Pressed by Wallace, the Leicester board had crunched figures for weeks and made the numbers work.
Opower, a data-analytics firm, crunches figures on size, occupancy, location and energy bills to find trends and make suggestions to 50m, mostly American, households.
What is so "real" about crunching figures in front of a computer screen all day?
Lending via equity release is seen as being far less risky than most normal mortgage lending, so, even in a credit crunch, the figures stack up well for lenders.
Not least the fact that a five to six party election, and a surge such as the scale of the SNP's in Scotland, don't have recent precedent, which both polling and electoral forecasting rely on to crunch their figures.
Like any experiment, we're now going to crunch the figures and see where we succeeded and where we failed.
Using that data, the program assigned numbers that approximated the meaning of each individual word from the podcasts -- and, with some fancy number crunching, they figured out what areas of the brain were activated when their research subjects heard words with certain meanings.
All this is going on against the background of the primary races, which could continue until June, the point when analysts, after crunching the figures, predict Romney will clinch the 1,144 delegates needed secure the nomination.
Susana Mendonca crunches the figures and reports on the arguments about Britain helping other countries.
Ian Reynolds, the chairman of Kingston Hospital, who has been crunching the figures for the CMI, is clear.
