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| From | Dustin Kincaid |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | FYI |
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| Date | 29 October 2003 04:32 |
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Roman numerals conversions - when run for 3999 Arabic convert to Roman
Numerals the output given on your page was MMMIM which is incorrect, that
is an invalid output, 3m is thee thousand, IM doesn't occur within the
rules of roman numerals... the correct output should be MMMCMXCIX
| From | Me |
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| To | Dustin Kincaid |
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| Subject | Re: FYI |
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| Date | 29 October 2003 12:15 |
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Thanks for letting me know.
As far as I knew, roman numerals could be optimised, say for IM to
represent 999. Do you have any documentation to the contrary, so that I can
see if my algorithms are invalid?
Mark 'Tarquin' Wilton-Jones - author of http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/
| From | Me |
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| To | Dustin Kincaid |
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| Subject | Re: Roman Numerals |
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| Date | 1 November 2003 20:30 |
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I have now updated the script to provide the option not to optimise Roman
Numerals as I have done, so without the option enabled, 3999 = MMMIM, but
with the option enabled, 3999 = MMMCMXCIX as you suggested. The updated
version is available on
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/php/