diff --git a/man3/atoi.3 b/man3/atoi.3
index d66bb9256..939bcd197 100644
--- a/man3/atoi.3
+++ b/man3/atoi.3
@@ -125,8 +125,8 @@ On glibc, musl libc, and uClibc, 0 is returned on error.
 is not set on error so there is no way to distinguish between 0 as an
 error and as the converted value.
 No checks for overflow or underflow are done.
-Only input in decimal base can be converted.
-It's recommended to use
+Only base-10 input can be converted.
+It is recommended to instead use the
 .BR strtol ()
 and
 .BR strtoul ()