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-rw-r--r--Documentation/timers/timekeeping.txt2
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diff --git a/Documentation/timers/timekeeping.txt b/Documentation/timers/timekeeping.txt
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+++ b/Documentation/timers/timekeeping.txt
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ a Linux system will eventually read the clock source to determine exactly
what time it is.
Typically the clock source is a monotonic, atomic counter which will provide
-n bits which count from 0 to 2^(n-1) and then wraps around to 0 and start over.
+n bits which count from 0 to (2^n)-1 and then wraps around to 0 and start over.
It will ideally NEVER stop ticking as long as the system is running. It
may stop during system suspend.