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@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ The fracture solution has to be provided in form of a Matlab `mat`-file which ha
 
 #### 2.2 Performing the comparison
 
-The function [compute_1d_error](compute_1d_error.m) can be used to calculate a relative L2-error of the matrix solution. It has the signature
+The function [compute_1d_error](compute_1d_error.m) can be used to calculate a relative L2-error of the fracture solution. It has the signature
 ```
 function [totalRelativeFractureError] = compute_1d_error(coarseFile, referenceFile)
 ```