diff --git a/README b/README
index 3f38585..8386880 100644
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+++ b/README
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ The dependencies for compiling are minimal, and should be available
 on most UNIX-like systems:
  - GNU Make
  - GNU Multi-Precision Arithmetics Library (GMP)
- - OpenMPI C wrapper compiler (mpicc)
+ - OpenMPI
 
 ## Compiling
 To compile you simply need to run the `make` command, which will