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 Introduction
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-The Julia standard library contains a range of functions and macros appropriate for performing scientific and numerical computing, but as broad as many general purpose programming languages.  Additional functionality is available from a growing collection of :ref:`available-packages`. Functions are grouped by topic below.  
+The Julia standard library contains a range of functions and macros appropriate for performing scientific and numerical computing, but is also as broad as those of many general purpose programming languages.  Additional functionality is available from a growing collection of :ref:`available-packages`. Functions are grouped by topic below.  
 
 Some general notes:
 
