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 ## Introduction
 
-OpenBLAS is an optimized BLAS library based on GotoBLAS2 1.13 BSD version.
+OpenBLAS is an optimized Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms library based on GotoBLAS2 1.13 BSD version.
 
 Please read the documentation on the OpenBLAS wiki pages: <https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/wiki>.