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 | Suite caps apply before averaging | A shared platform flaw hits every product. Averaging first would let healthy products dilute it. |
 
 An unknown cap id throws. Dropping a mistyped cap without a word would
-inflate the score, which is the exact failure this library prevents. A cap
+inflate the score, which is the failure this library prevents. A cap
 assigned to the wrong dimension also throws, and so does a product with a
 missing dimension.