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fix: typo in QAOA
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    "source": [
     "In this noteook, we show how to (approximately) solve binary combinatorial optimization problems, using the __Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA)__.\n",
     "\n",
-    "The QAOA is a variational quantum algorithm that uses alternativing layers of parameterized quantum gates to solve an optimization problem [1]. The parameters of each gate are tuned to minimize a cost function, similar to how machine learning parameters are tuned in stochastic gradient descent. \n",
+    "The QAOA is a variational quantum algorithm that uses alternating layers of parameterized quantum gates to solve an optimization problem [1]. The parameters of each gate are tuned to minimize a cost function, similar to how machine learning parameters are tuned in stochastic gradient descent. \n",
     "\n",
     "## References \n",
     "[1] Edward Farhi, Jeffrey Goldstone, and Sam Gutmann, \"A Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm Applied to a Bounded Occurrence Constraint Problem,\" (2014), [arXiv:1412.6062](https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.4028)"