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 ## License
 
-`bitsandbytes` MIT licensed.
+`bitsandbytes` is MIT licensed.
 
 We thank Fabio Cannizzo for his work on [FastBinarySearch](https://github.com/fabiocannizzo/FastBinarySearch) which we use for CPU quantization.