We must be solving different problems. There are 5^4=625 different
combinations for 4 pushes of 5 buttons; so the shortest possible
answer is 629 characters.
Maybe you're assuming the buttons can't be repeated?
Henry Rich
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> Here's the shortest sequence I've found, for four letter combinations
> of 'abcde':
>
> abceadceabdecbadebcaedcbaecdbacdeabcdaecbdaebdcebdacebadcbedca
> becadecabdcaebcdebacedbaedbcadbeadbcedabedacbdeacbeacdbecdabc
>
> That should be 123 characters, once it's "unwrapped".
>
> I used the code I posted earlier but using ? instead of ?. and
> ran it several times. Slightly over 1% of my results have
> length 123.
>
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