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 ## What is Salsa?
 
-Salsa is a library for incremental recomputation, this means reusing
-computation that has already been done in the past to increase the efficiency
+Salsa is a library for incremental recomputation. This means it allows reusing
+computations that were already done in the past to increase the efficiency
 of future computations.
 
 The objectives of Salsa are: