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@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ These represent machine-level double precision floating point numbers.
You are at the mercy of the underlying machine architecture and
\C{} implementation for the accepted range and handling of overflow.
Python does not support single-precision floating point numbers; the
-savings in CPU and memory usage that are usually the reason for using
+savings in processor and memory usage that are usually the reason for using
these is dwarfed by the overhead of using objects in Python, so there
is no reason to complicate the language with two kinds of floating
point numbers.