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In an effort to develop a system to check for plagiarism, a client asks you to develop a program that measures how different two texts are from each other. Specifically, given two texts (strings) A and B, he’d like to be able to compute the minimum number of characters that need to be added to and/or removed from A to get B (or equivalently, the total number of characters that must be added to

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