Clearer language.

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@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ kilometers (7,900 miles).
 The difference between the longest and shortest diameters is 44
 kilometers (27 miles), and that means that the "oblateness" of the
 earth (its departure from true sphericity) is 44/12755, or
-0.0034. This amounts to l/3 of 1 percent.
+0.0034. This amounts to 1/3 of 1 percent.
 
 To put it another way, on a flat surface, curvature is 0 per mile
 everywhere. On the earth's spherical surface, curvature is 0.000126
@@ -281,3 +281,5 @@ measurements have been enormously refined but the principle remains.
 Naturally, the theories we now have might be considered wrong in the
 simplistic sense of my English Lit correspondent, but in a much truer
 and subtler sense, they need only be considered incomplete.
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