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@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ Code for the shannon capacity of odd cycles paper http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm
 paper is also available at https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.01472
 
 The code is written by the authors of the paper and is uploaded to GitGub for archival
-and for any refernce use by other researchers.
+and for any reference use by other researchers.