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 ## Motivation
 
-Representing monetary values using floats is bad, you can lose precicion an get weird results. It's better to use a Money value object that uses integers or BCMath. This library uses the latter.
+Representing monetary values using floats is bad, you can lose precision an get weird results. It's better to use a Money value object that uses integers or BCMath. This library uses the latter.
 
 ### Why another Money library? There are already tons out there!