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 ### Quaternions and Octonions
 
-Quaternion and Octonians are class templates similar to std::complex.
+Quaternion and Octonion are class templates similar to std::complex.
 
 The full documentation is available on [boost.org](http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/release/libs/math).