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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Layout of State Variables in Storage
 Statically-sized variables (everything except mapping and dynamically-sized array types) are laid out contiguously in storage starting from position ``0``. Multiple, contiguous items that need less than 32 bytes are packed into a single storage slot if possible, according to the following rules:
 
 - The first item in a storage slot is stored lower-order aligned.
-- Elementary types use only that many bytes that are necessary to store them.
+- Elementary types use only as many bytes as are necessary to store them.
 - If an elementary type does not fit the remaining part of a storage slot, it is moved to the next storage slot.
 - Structs and array data always start a new slot and occupy whole slots (but items inside a struct or array are packed tightly according to these rules).