From: Carlos <angus@...>
Date: 2007-01-03T06:43:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Calculating roman numerals

[Shiloh Madsen <shiloh.madsen@gmail.com>, 2007-01-02 22.35 CET]
> Ok, I'm having trouble with another exercise in this book. It has
> asked me to write a program that will calculate the old school roman
> numeral value for a given modern number (up to the thousands). To
> clarify, old school roman numerals didn't do the subtraction thing, so
> 4 is IIII, nine is VIIII, etc. I've played around with a few options
> using division, loops and modulus, but can't seem to get my brain
> around the problem...any suggestions?

A hint: Try loops and subtractions.

Good luck.
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