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 ### Example
 
-If we have 4 tasks tasks to execute. Three of then takes 1 second each to
-execute and the last one takes 3 seconds. We have 2 processing units of equal
-power.
+We have 4 tasks tasks to execute. Three of them takes 1 second each to execute
+and the last one takes 3 seconds. We have 2 processing units of equal power.
 
 If each processing unit starts by executing one of the 1s tasks, they will both
 finis this job after one second. Then, one of those processing unit will