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 The use of the <iostream> library is the way that C++ declares standard input and output.
 The thing that provides this library with the distinction with C libraries of 
 a similar nature is that C++ uses specific keywords to handle various 
-char oriented tasks such as cout for character output and cin for character output
+char oriented tasks such as cout for character output and cin for character input
 
 Another way of writing "Hello World" to the Console is through using 
 the namespace std as demonstrated below.