Thanks for the review and the suggestion.

I knew Roman was available, but it didn't feel right to use it for this. I felt it was more in the spirit of the thread to go overboard and develop the needed tools specifically for the node. I'm actually a bit surprised it took someone posting a hand-crafted Roman to Arabic numeral conversion before someone gave an example using the module. It was one of the first twists on the problem that popped into my deranged mind.