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Wrong result in subsection Decryption

As the result to obtain the message the formula

is given. This looks dubious to me. It bugs me that m is on both sides where as the cyphertext c is missing. Doing some fairly trivial transformations of the other formula above this one (and applying the Babai rounding technique (BRT)) I get:

which is then transformed to

I am by no meas an expert of cryptography and I do not know the BRT, but doing the straightforward transformations and using the BRT as seems to be intended I obtained a result which looks like it makes much more sense than the current one.