Re: At the risk of saying something stupid-but-obvious about Roman Numerals

sundialsvc4,
Something seems fishy with your code.

my $roman = "MCCMLXXIV";  #1874
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Shouldn't that be MDCCCLXXIV? I am pretty sure what you have isn't valid.

Cheers - L~R

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Re^2: At the risk of saying something stupid-but-obvious about Roman Numerals by Anonymous Monk on May 12, 2014 at 23:28 UTC
Or even, MDCCCLXXIIII. Romans probably treated the numbers like a bag of coins. To add two numbers, just lump them together. Substractive forms (IV, IX, XL, XC, CD, CM), and even double substractives (such as CCM) would also occur, according to wikipedia.	[reply]