It seems to me that some of the solutions are not quite correct, failing the test case:
MD plus I which should produce the answer MDI. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that the shortest solutions of szery, Sec and Jasper all fail this test case. Falling back one stroke from 4e3 to 3999 remedies. Please let me know if I've made a blunderific oversight. Thanks, /-\ Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com