RE: Grammar: "Multiply by" or "Multiply times"?

Subject: RE: Grammar: "Multiply by" or "Multiply times"?
From: "Janoff, Steven" <Steven -dot- Janoff -at- hologic -dot- com>
To: Emoto <emoto1 -at- gmail -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 00:06:36 +0000

"Multiply by 20 the absorbance of the dilution."


On Tuesday, April 25, 2017 6:48 AM, Emoto wrote:

I am dealing with laboratory instructions (recipes, if you will) for biochemists and lab technicians.

Part of my gig is to clarify and clean up language as I make other required doc changes.

I come across something like "multiply the absorbance of the dilution times 20" and want to change "times" to "by".

Am I being pedantic?

Bob

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