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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ For example:
 * website archives,
 * _etc_.
 
-Many of these use-cases either use the **cpio format**, the **rar format**, **tar forat**, or the **zip format**.
+Many of these use-cases either use the **cpio format**, the **rar format**, **tar format**, or the **zip format**.
 
 While all of these formats work acceptably as an **archive format** and a **container format** — none of them are **easy** for a programmer of 3 to 10 years of experience to implement a encoder and a decoder for it.
 Also none of these supports a ‘**view-source**’ learning style (as none of them is text based, for some definition of "text").