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 ## Utilities for navigating flat trees
 
-```bash
+```sh
 $ pip install flat-tree
 ```
 
-Flat Trees are the core data structure that power Hypercore feeds. They
-allow us to deterministically represent a tree structure as a vector.
-This is particularly useful because vectors map elegantly to disk and
-memory.
-
-Because Flat Trees are deterministic and pre-computed, there is no
-overhead to using them. In effect this means that Flat Trees are a
-specific way of indexing into a vector more than they are their own data
-structure. This makes them uniquely efficient and convenient to
-implement in a wide range of languages.
+> Flat Trees are the core data structure that power Hypercore feeds. They allow
+> us to deterministically represent a tree structure as a vector. This is
+> particularly useful because vectors map elegantly to disk and memory. Because
+> Flat Trees are deterministic and pre-computed, there is no overhead to using
+> them. In effect this means that Flat Trees are a specific way of indexing
+> into a vector more than they are their own data structure. This makes them
+> uniquely efficient and convenient to implement in a wide range of languages.