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 Yet Another Skiena Implementation
 
-This is an ongoing project where I am writing various data structures and algorithms in C++, loosely following the content of the Alogirhtms Manual book by Steven Skiena.
+This is an ongoing project where I am writing various data structures and algorithms in C++, loosely following the content of the Algoirhtms Manual book by Steven Skiena.
 
 The code is written using standard C++ in Microsoft Visual Studio 2013. Code is tested using Google C++ framework.