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 # NormNumSuM
-NormNumSuM (Normalised Number of Substring Movements) is a string comparison algorithm designed to be token order invariant.
+NormNumSuM (Normalised Number of Substring Movements) is a string comparison algorithm designed to be token order invariant. The algorithm works by iteratively finding the longest substring between the two strings, removing the previously found substring at each timestep.