From: Gennady Bystritsky <Gennady.Bystritsky@...>
Date: 2009-11-12T01:17:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Roman Numerals (Arrgh!)


On Nov 11, 2009, at 7:56 AM, Paul Smith wrote:

>> 
>> Now you intrigued me ;-). So I am asking directly -- given the following $numerals:
>> $numerals = [[1000, "M"], [500, "D"], [100, "C"], [50, "L"], [10, "X"], [5, "V"], [1, "I"]]
> 
> $numerals = [[1000, "M"], [900, "CM"], [500, "D"], [400, "CD"], [100,
> "C"], [90, "XC"], [50, "L"], [40, "XL"], [10, "X"], [9, "IX"], [5,
> "V"], [4, "IV"], [1, "I"]]

Oops, true. No morning coffee takes its dues ;-) -- I suspected that's what was implied, however somehow started thinking that the 2-character strings might be multiplied by that algorithm. My bad, it works indeed. 

Thank you guys,
Gennady.

> 
>> 
>> ...how one can transform it so that the original algorithm would produced shortened roman numbers? Please present the exact value of $numerals satisfying the above condition.
>> 
>> Gennady.
>> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Paul Smith
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