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Anonymous Wed 14 Aug 2013 04:45:00 No.59137 View View Reply Original Report

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I am working on submitting a paper, having a minor grammar struggle here.

"We can determine whether instances are co-resident in under 10 seconds and as few as 2.5 seconds for a given probe."

Should it be: "We can determine whether instances are co-resident in under 10 seconds and in as few as 2.5 seconds for a given probe."

(Added an 'in' after the 'and').

Thanks.

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Anonymous Wed 14 Aug 2013 11:18:00 No.59138 Report

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Omitting repeated information seems fine to me, but I'm not sure what the proper procedure is for a formal paper.

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Anonymous Wed 14 Aug 2013 16:36:00 No.59139 Report

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Just replace every "the" for "vicious anal rape" and you're cool to go

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Anonymous Tue 03 Sep 2013 18:39:00 No.59311 Report

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>>1
"And" should be "or"

Unless you really mean "and"... in which case you should hopefully explain why you're able to that.

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Anonymous Thu 05 Sep 2013 04:07:00 No.59315 Report

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>>4

I think you're misunderstanding what he's saying. It takes them 10 seconds or less to determine whether instances are co-resident, and in some cases it takes them as few as 2.5 seconds. It's not two separate times, it's just giving a range of how long it takes. "or" wouldn't make any sense (because taking 2.5 seconds is still shorter than 10 seconds).

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Anonymous Thu 05 Sep 2013 04:09:00 No.59316 Report

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Anonymous Thu 05 Sep 2013 04:12:00 No.59317 Report

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Anonymous Thu 05 Sep 2013 05:04:00 No.59318 Report

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>>5
No... you're misunderstanding. "or" would make just as much sense. It doesn't matter which duration is "longer". It's just changes the meaning of the sentence. That's what words do. The sentence is syntactical ambiguous to begin with (Is "given probes" exclusive to 2.5 seconds? etc.) It really all depends on WHAT the OP is saying and HOW he wants to say it.

"We can determine whether instances are co-resident in under 10 seconds, or as few as 2.5 seconds, for a given probe" seems clearer to me (if it adheres to the intended meaning)

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Anonymous Thu 05 Sep 2013 06:33:00 No.59319 Report

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Yeah, it really depends on how a probe relates to the determination of co-residency. Some more context is needed to help.

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Anonymous Thu 05 Sep 2013 12:15:00 No.59320 Report

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It's pretty obvious that the whole sentence is there to establish upper (10 second) and lower (2.5 second) bounds on calculation times for a single given probe. Thinking about it as a special case for one given probe makes little sense and sounds awkward. If it were "the given probe", I would agree with you, but it isn't. It's talking about an abstract, hypothetical probe, and not a single specific one.

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Anonymous Thu 05 Sep 2013 12:18:00 No.59321 Report

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>>10
Just to make what I am saying clearer, the sentence is the same as "For a given probe, We can determine whether instances are co-resident in under 10 seconds and as few as 2.5 seconds."

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Anonymous Thu 05 Sep 2013 18:48:00 No.59322 Report

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>>10
That's assumptive. You know what happens when you assume.

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Anonymous Mon 09 Sep 2013 03:49:00 No.59340 Report

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Or we could do another rewrite;

Determining whether instances are co-resident, can be done in under 10 seconds; for a given probe, even as few as 2.5 seconds.

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Anonymous Tue 10 Sep 2013 04:26:00 No.59345 Report

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>>13
...that's still pretty awkward. Some might call into question your use of punctuation as well.

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Anonymous Wed 11 Sep 2013 00:18:00 No.59349 Report

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