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 A powerful application of pattern matching is *destructuring*:
 matching in order to bind names to the contents of data
-types. Remember that `(float, float)` is a tuple of two floats:
+types. Assuming that `(float, float)` is a tuple of two floats:
 
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 fn angle(vector: (float, float)) -> float {