diff --git a/book/src/arch/linker.md b/book/src/arch/linker.md
index c583ca3882..eb9e72b474 100644
--- a/book/src/arch/linker.md
+++ b/book/src/arch/linker.md
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ Since a Program has no return-value it also offers no return-type information.
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-So the example expression from above `a + 3* will be annotated like this:
+So the example expression from above `a + 3` will be annotated like this:
 (Note that the resulting type of the Binary-Operation must be calculated by the linker by determining the bigger of both types.)
 
 ```ignore