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

["Janoff, Steven" <Steven -dot- Janoff -at- hologic -dot- com>]

"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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