>Just an english usage note:
>
> "is comprised entirely of" should probably say "is composed of".
>
> Wholes comprise their parts, and it is incorrect to use "comprise"
> and then leave out some of the parts - so saying "entirely" is redundant.
A dictionary check indicates that "comprise" means "be composed of". That
implies that it should either say "is composed of 4-state bits" or
"comprises 4-state bits". Since "comprise" is not often used (at least
correctly), I would agree that "is composed of" is better. Since the point
of the statement is to emphasize that the result is entirely 4-state bits,
I don't think that the redundancy of "is composed entirely of" is out of
place.
Steven Sharp
sharp@cadence.com
Received on Thu Nov 18 13:58:56 2004
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