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Chapter 5: wording, typos #139

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sphaso opened this issue Aug 12, 2018 · 3 comments
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Chapter 5: wording, typos #139

sphaso opened this issue Aug 12, 2018 · 3 comments

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@sphaso
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sphaso commented Aug 12, 2018

Hi,

Problem 225 has a strange wording:

In a biology lab study of the effects of basic fertilizer ingredients on plants...

Problem 230 too (or it might be that I'm not a native speaker and it sounds off to me):

Use notation something like that of...

Problem 234 typo:

The principle of inclusion and exclusion generall refers

(really enjoying chapter 6 right now!)

@oscarlevin
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I'm not seeing the wording as all that strange, although eventually both could be tightened up. I've fixed the typo and included it in my pull request.

@mitchkeller
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I agree the wording is awkward although probably technically correct. 225 doesn't bother me too much, but 230 grates at my ear pretty badly.

What about:

Problem 230

Use notation similar to that of…

If we wanted to make a quick edit to Problem 225 right now, I would think that

In a study of…

eliminates the awkwardness.

@sphaso
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sphaso commented Aug 13, 2018

I see why I thought wording of 225 was weird, I was breaking up the sentence at "In a biology lab, study" instead of going all the way. Sorry about that.

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