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-| Nodes | Ranks | DoF/rank | $\Large \frac{\textbf{Newton iter}}{\textbf{timestep}}$ | $\Large \frac{\textbf{GMRES iter}}{\textbf{Newton iter}}$ | Setup <br/> [s]  | Solve <br/> [s] | Efficiency |
+| Nodes | Ranks | DoF/rank | $\Large \frac{\text{Newton iter}}{\text{timestep}}$ | $\Large \frac{\textbf{GMRES iter}}{\textbf{Newton iter}}$ | Setup <br/> [s]  | Solve <br/> [s] | Efficiency |
 | :---: | :---: | :------: |                    :-------------:                       |      :-------------:       | :-----:          | :---:           | ----------: |
 | 2     | 72    | 226K     |                          7.5                             |           30.3             |  6,709           |  13,725         |      100%   |
 | 4     | 144   | 113K     |                          7.5                             |           30.9             |  3,816           |  7,479          |      90%    |