On Mar 24, 2006, at 8:28 AM, Stephen Waits wrote:

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> On Mar 24, 2006, at 6:57 AM, James Edward Gray II wrote:
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>> Happy birthday Stephen!
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> Thanks!  I'm looking forward to those solutions...
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> --Steve
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Happy birthday Steve.

In case you're curious, my solution is... not doing so well.  I  
thought I'd built up a decent model by working with code lengths I  
could fit in my head (e.g. 1 or 2 digits), but it actually does much  
worse than the naive solution for 4 and 5 digit codes (it does better  
for 1-3 digit codes).  So, back to the drawing board for me.

Tim