Improve "base gas cost" description

ethereum · Oct 24, 2019 · 0e35d2d · 0e35d2d
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@@ -11,8 +11,9 @@ Let's start by defining some basic and universal instructions' parameters.
 1. Base gas cost.
 
    This is the static gas cost of instructions. Some instructions may have 
-   additional cost depending on their operand values - these have to be
-   handled individually during the instruction execution.
+   _additional_ cost depending on their operand values and/or the environment
+   — these have to be handled individually during the instruction execution.
+   The _final_ cost is never less than the _base_ cost.
 
 2. Stack height requirement.