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 Now we will run the simulation again, but this time we extend our original 
 algorithm with the addition of the ``analyze()`` function. Somewhat analogously 
-as how ``initialize()`` gets called once before the start of the algorith, 
+as how ``initialize()`` gets called once before the start of the algorithm, 
 ``analyze()`` gets called once at the end of the algorithm, and receives two 
 variables: ``context``, which we discussed at the very beginning, and ``perf``, 
 which is the pandas dataframe containing the performance data for our algorithm