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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ parallel computing is needed, such as how to launch a multi-process
 instance of Julia using MPI, or launching Julia with multiple threads. 
 See [MPI.jl](https://juliaparallel.org/MPI.jl/stable/) and 
 [Multi-threading](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/base/multi-threading/) 
-for refernence.
+for reference.
 
 ```@contents
 Pages = ["start.md", "configuration.md", "mesh.md", "entities.md", "conditions.md", "equation.md", "solution.md", "datatypes.md", "reorder.md", "misc.md"]