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Question about example

In the example below from the floss manual, there is a kModFactor value which is not used elsewhere. Could someone explain me why?

EXAMPLE 04D09_PhaseMod.csd

<CsoundSynthesizer>
<CsOptions>
-o dac
</CsOptions>
<CsInstruments>
sr = 48000
ksmps = 32
nchnls = 2
0dbfs = 1

instr 1  ; simple PM-Synth
kCarFreq = 200
kModFreq = 280
kModFactor = kCarFreq/kModFreq
kIndex = 12/6.28   ;  12/2pi to convert from radians to norm. table index
aEnv expseg .001, 0.001, 1, 0.3, 0.5, 8.5, .001
aModulator poscil kIndex*aEnv, kModFreq, 1
aPhase phasor kCarFreq
aCarrier tablei aPhase+aModulator, 1, 1, 0, 1
outs (aCarrier*aEnv), (aCarrier*aEnv)
endin

</CsInstruments>
<CsScore>
f 1 0 1024 10 1 		;Sine wave for table 1
i 1 0 9
</CsScore>
</CsoundSynthesizer>
; written by Alex Hofmann (Mar. 2011

I assume it’s a mistake/typo, @iainmccurdy should know.