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-    "We see that the minimal number of CNOTs required to prepare the logical $|0\\rangle_L$ circuit of the Steane code is $7$.\n",
+    "We see that the minimal number of CNOTs required to prepare the logical $|0\\rangle_L$ circuit of the Steane code is $8$.\n",
     "\n",
     "## Synthesizing FT state preparation circuits\n",
     "The circuit above is not fault-tolerant. For example, an $X$ error on qubit $q_1$ before the last CNOT propagates to a weight $2$ X error on $q_1$ and $q_2$. This is to be expected since we apply two-qubit gates between the qubits of a single logical qubit. \n",