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The phrase "number cruncher" is correct and commonly used in written English.
You can use it to refer to a person who is skilled or adept at mathematics or using computers to organize, analyse, and manipulate numerical data. For example: "My uncle is an excellent number cruncher; he helped me make sense of my financial records."
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number cruncher
noun
An accountant or other person who deals with the calculation of numbers as a profession.
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8. Number Cruncher.
But who exactly is this tub-thumping number cruncher?
Mr. Horton has been more than a number cruncher.
To get through the day, he made himself into an algorithm, a number cruncher.
On paper, Thomas Owen Staggs is exactly that — a number cruncher.
His silken game is still poetry in motion, but he is also a nonpareil number cruncher.
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The number-cruncher does spleen just as adroitly.
"Big data is bullshit," proclaims Obama's reelection chief number-cruncher.
But even if it were, a number-cruncher might just be able to justify it.
Will it be a number-cruncher (such as the stand-in Vijay Vaghela, the finance director)?
Rice's hero, Mr Zero, remains a browbeaten number-cruncher in a department store.
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