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Mobile phones prevail in everyday life. Every mobile phone has a number pad for users to dial the telephone number. Figure 1 shows a typical layout of number pads, which can be represented as 4 by 3 rectangular cells. We know that some mobile phone numbers are easy to memorize, since entering in sequence of digits implies an easy-to-remember geometric figure.
For each phone number, we can make a corresponding geometric figure, Phone Plot, which is a sequence of connected line segments. Assume that a phone number with n digits is d1 d2 d3...dn-1 dn . The first line segment of Phone Plot is a line segment connecting the center points of pad d1 and pad d2 . The second line segment of Phone Plot connects the center points of pad d2 and d3 . In a similar way the k -th line segment connects the center points of pad dk and pad dk+1 , and the last segment connects dn-1 and dn .
Let us show a few examples. The Phone Plot for the number 1023289873 is shown as the thick lines in Figure 2(a). Figure 2(b) shows that the Phone Plot for a n