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Fix typo in hosts introduction section ln.468
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Fix formatting of IPv6 address count in introduction.rst
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Expand Up @@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ contains both the IP address of the source or origin of the packet and
the IP address of the destination or recipient of the packet. The network
uses the destination address to deliver each packet to its final recipient.

Throughout this part, we will consider the Internet as a black box as shown in :numref:`fig-network-blackbox`. We will focus on hos hosts interact and will reveal how the network really operates in the second part of the book.
Throughout this part, we will consider the Internet as a black box as shown in :numref:`fig-network-blackbox`. We will focus on how hosts interact and will reveal how the network really operates in the second part of the book.

.. _fig-network-blackbox:

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IP introduces several changes compared to IP version 4 that will be discussed
later. The most important one is the length of the IPv6 addresses.
An IPv6 address is 128 bits long. This implies that in theory, there
are :math:`2^128=340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456` unique IPv6 addresses. The number of IPv6 addresses is
are :math:`2^{128}=340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456` unique IPv6 addresses. The number of IPv6 addresses is
much larger than the number of IPv4 addresses, and we do not
expect the IPv6 addressing space to become exhausted one day.

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