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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Usage of orders of/order of magnitude of
I am doing a comparison. And in some cases I am comparing milliseconds.
Can I say this:
"in the order of magnitude of milliseconds"
Does it makes sense?
Thank you
Can I say this:
"in the order of magnitude of milliseconds"
Does it makes sense?
Thank you
Top answer
It would be useful to see the exact sentence, but probably you can just say "of the order of milliseconds".
- It would be useful to see the exact sentence, but probably you can just say "of the order of milliseconds".
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It would be useful to see the exact sentence, but probably you can just say "of the order of milliseconds".
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Here is part of the sentence:
".. and in some cases the comparisons were made in the order of milliseconds."
".. and in some cases the comparisons were made in the order of milliseconds."
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That is fully intelligible but does not sound exactly correct to me. In this particular case, direct substitution of "of the order of" does not seem to work, but you could say "in some cases comparisons of the order of milliseconds were made" (note: no "the")
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Or possibly even just
"in some cases comparisons were made in milliseconds".
"in some cases comparisons were made in milliseconds".
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