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Simplify explanation and rephrase as per @GuillaumeGomez's suggestion.

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 ## Variable sized types
 
 Rust also provides types whose particular size depends on the underlying machine
-architecture. Their range is sufficient to express sizes of collections and they
-are used to address items in a vector, for example. These types have ‘size’ as
-the category, and come in signed and unsigned varieties. This makes for two types:
-`isize` and `usize`.
+architecture. Their range is sufficient to express the size of any collection, so
+these types have ‘size’ as the category. They come in signed and unsigned varieties
+which makes for two types: `isize` and `usize`.
 
 ## Floating-point types