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 One major aspect in TML is recursion. In general, recursion is made of an
 iteration together with a stopping condition, but on TML we don't have an
 arbitrary stopping condition as in usual programming languages. A TML program
-defines what happens with every teration, and the backend then iterates the
+defines what happens with every iteration, and the backend then iterates the
 program until one of the two happens:
 
 1. Two consequetive iterations returned the same result, means that the state of