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From: "Duane Hanselman" <masteringmatlab@yahoo.spam.com>
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Subject: Re: MATLAB Central Spring Contest
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:45:05 +0000 (UTC)
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"Helen Chen" <helen.chen@mathworks.com> wrote in message
<fv82i0$nql$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Just a reminder to let everyone know that the Spring Contest
> launches tomorrow, Wednesday May 30th at high noon.  Be
> there or be square!
> 
> See you then!
> Helen

The rules state that this is based on
"the problem of wiring up printed circuit boards"

How does one "wire up"? Is it possible to "wire down" as
well? Or perhaps "wire in" or "wire out"?

I'm just being picky. Terms such as "wire up", "connect up",
etc. are not grammatically correct. The word "up" is not
needed. Just drop it:

"the problem of wiring printed circuit boards"

This is similar to the phrase "In order to...", just drop
the first two words "To..."

I've written books with both of these things in them. The
copy editors strike them out immediately. I am now working
on my 11th book, and I finally learned to avoid these before
the copy editor sees them. :-)

p.s., this looks like a great contest. I like the penalties
for poor coding!

Duane Hanselman