diff --git a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/C++Programming-HOWTO.sgml b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/C++Programming-HOWTO.sgml
index a1397e1d..5c9892e7 100644
--- a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/C++Programming-HOWTO.sgml
+++ b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/C++Programming-HOWTO.sgml
@@ -2631,7 +2631,7 @@ set<string, less<string> > s4;
 </code>
 
 (Note that the space between the two final >'s in the template is required - otherwise the compiler will interpret >> as the right shift operator.) In each of these cases the function
-object makes use of the operator &lt as defined for the the underlying type (that is 
+object makes use of the operator &lt as defined for the underlying type (that is 
 <it>int, double, char</it> and <it>string</it>). 
 
 The following code declares a set of integers, then adds some integers to