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 ## Testing (New!)
 
-Testing out different parameterizations of the fingerprinting algorithm is often useful as the curpus becomes larger and larger, and inevitable tradeoffs between speed and accuracy come into play. 
+Testing out different parameterizations of the fingerprinting algorithm is often useful as the corpus becomes larger and larger, and inevitable tradeoffs between speed and accuracy come into play. 
 
 ![Confidence](plots/confidence.png)