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-Storm
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+Storm - A Modern Probabilistic Model Checker
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 [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/moves-rwth/storm.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/moves-rwth/storm)
 
 For more instructions, check out the documentation found in [Getting Started](http://www.stormchecker.org/getting-started.html).