Your Internet startup needs a domain name. Your market research guru tells you that users tend to avoid sites with names that are hard to type. Thus, you must pick a name that is easy to type. For your research, you decide to use the idealized model of keyboards suggested by Figure~\ref{fig:kbd}. Note that the keys are perfectly aligned both horizontally and vertically, unlike the skewed positioning of keys in typical keyboards. You decide to assign a {\em typing cost\/} to each domain name (or any word, in general) based on the following rules. .