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     TOTAL                  353     20    94%
 
+Where, 
+* `Stmts` refers to the number of statements in your code.
+* `Miss` refers to the number of statements that have not been run.
+* `Cover` is test coverage, or `(Stmts - Miss) / (Stmts) * 100`.
+
 Documentation
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