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  r86249 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 07:30:16 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 2 lines

  Fix typo
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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index 5c80f94..208f2f8 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -1102,7 +1102,7 @@
    total.  *start* defaults to ``0``. The *iterable*'s items are normally numbers,
    and the start value is not allowed to be a string.
 
-   For some use cases, there a good alternatives to :func:`sum`.
+   For some use cases, there are good alternatives to :func:`sum`.
    The preferred, fast way to concatenate a sequence of strings is by calling
    ``''.join(sequence)``.  To add floating point values with extended precision,
    see :func:`math.fsum`\.  To concatenate a series of iterables, consider using