From: Christopher Latif <christopherl@...>
Date: 2006-12-09T20:29:13+09:00
Subject: Need help on a program

Stuck on this exercise from a book:
Old-school Roman numerals. In the early days of Roman numerals,
the Romans didn’t bother with any of this new-fangled subtraction
“IX” nonsense. No sir, it was straight addition, biggest to littlest—
so 9 was written “VIIII,” and so on. Write a method that, when
passed an integer between 1 and 3000 (or so), returns a string
containing the proper old-school Roman numeral. In other words,
old_roman_numeral 4 should return 'IIII'. Make sure to test
your method on a bunch of different numbers.
For reference, these are the values of the letters used:
I =1       V =5      X = 10       L = 50
C = 100    D = 500   M = 1000

Suggestions on a soloution?

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