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@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ This program uses approximately 2GB of RAM per CPU. Becuase this program uses mu

-The memory consumption stack trace was made by using mprof to monitor this program brute force 10,000 addresses on a 4 logical processor machine with 8GB of RAM. As a result, 4 child processes were created, each comsuming 2100MiB of RAM (~2GB).
+The memory consumption stack trace was made by using mprof to monitor this program brute force 10,000 addresses on a 4 logical processor machine with 8GB of RAM. As a result, 4 child processes were created, each consuming 2100MiB of RAM (~2GB).
# Recent Improvements & TODO