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Guptavandy Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

'while' and 'whereas'

Should 'while' be changed to 'whereas' in the following sentence:

It is clear that at low chances of success, the farmout case is always superior, while as the probability of success approaches unity, the drill case becomes increasingly better
  

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No. Both "while" and "whereas" can be used when comparing things as seems to be the case here.

  • No.
  • Both "while" and "whereas" can be used when comparing things as seems to be the case here.
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No. Both "while" and "whereas" can be used when comparing things as seems to be the case here.
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I can't figure out what's wrong with the text. But I think that you, or whoever wrote it, mean the 'unity', here, as "1.0" used in the probability calculus and statistics.

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