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 LibPoly is a C library for manipulating polynomials. The target applications 
 are symbolic reasoning engines, such as SMT solvers, that need to reason about
 polynomial constraints. It is research software under development, so the 
-features and the API migh change rapidly.
+features and the API might change rapidly.
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ To compile on an Ubuntu machine you can install the prerequisites with
 sudo apt-get install gcc cmake make libgmp-dev python2.7-dev 
 ```
 
-Python is used for testing purposes through the Python bindings (which are also
-useful for playing with the library). The bindings are not supported for Macs or 
-Windows machines (and they are disabled).
+Python is used for testing the library purposes through the Python bindings 
+(these are also useful for playing with the library). The Python bindings are 
+currently not supported for Macs or Windows machines.
 
 ## Compiling
 
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 make install
 ```
 The $type above is should be either "Debug" or "Release", and $prefix is the 
-target directory where the library should be installed. The prefix can be 
-omited, in which case the library will be installed in the default system 
-locationi (such as /usr/local).
+target directory where the library will be installed. The prefix can be 
+omitted, in which case the library will be installed in the default system 
+location (such as ```/usr/local```).
 
 If the tests are enabled, you can do a sanity check of the library by doing a
 ```make check```.
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