Fix typos in README and exercises files

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2022-12-05 18:27:43 +01:00
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@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ purpose, require using more functionalities of Julia ecosystem that is covered
in the book. This is meant to teach you how to use help and documentation,
as this is a very important skill to master.
The files containing exercises have a naming convention `execricesDD.md`, where
The files containing exercises have a naming convention `exercisesDD.md`, where
`DD` is book chapter number for which the exercises were prepared.
All the exercises should be possible to solve using project environment setting

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@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ and the error accumulates when we do addition multiple times.
than rational 1/7 by increasing the precision of computations using the `big`
function:
```
julia> big(1/7) # convert Floa64 to high-precision float
julia> big(1/7) # convert Float64 to high-precision float
0.142857142857142849212692681248881854116916656494140625
julia> 1/big(7) # construct high-precision float directly
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ Note the differences in the code:
* if there are `0` or `1` element in the collection the function does not do
anything (depending on the context we might want to throw an error instead)
* in `x[begin], x[end] = x[end], x[begin]` we perform two assignments at the
same time to avoid having to use a temporaty variable `f` (this operation
same time to avoid having to use a temporary variable `f` (this operation
is technically called tuple destructuring; we discuss it in later chapters of
the book)

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@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ julia> for i in 1:40
20 18.100 μs (0 allocations: 0 bytes)
```
Notice that execution time for number `n` is roughly sum of ececution times
Notice that execution time for number `n` is roughly sum of execution times
for numbers `n-1` and `n-2`.
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@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@
### Exercise 1
Random.org provides a service that returns random numbers. One of the ways
how you can use it is by sending HTTP GET reguests. Here is an example request:
how you can use it is by sending HTTP GET requests. Here is an example request:
> https://www.random.org/integers/?num=10&min=1&max=6&col=1&base=10&format=plain&rnd=new
If you want to understand all the parameters plese check their meaning
If you want to understand all the parameters please check their meaning
[here](https://www.random.org/clients/http/).
For us it is enough that this request generates 10 random integers in the range

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@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ plot([bar(string.(g.n), g.mv;
yerror=(g.mv - g.lo95, g.hi95-g.mv)) for g in gdf]...)
```
As expected error bandwidth gets smaller as `k` encreases.
As expected error bandwidth gets smaller as `k` increases.
Note that as `n` increases the estimated value tends to `1-exp(-1)`.
</details>