Re: symbolic increment of roman numerals

For those interested in doing more "real" roman numeral operations, Math::Roman handles much of this for you:

use Math::Roman 'roman';

my $y = roman 'MCMLXXVII';
print "$y\n" while $y++ < 2002;
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Re: Re: symbolic increment of roman numerals by PetaMem (Priest) on May 05, 2002 at 12:21 UTC
Hi, I contacted the author of the Math::Roman module and reported some bugs, so the 1.07 should be usable now. The big difference in the approach, is the symbolic operation and not internal transformations to/from another nuber system/scheme. Try to increment the 'IM' number with the Math::Roman module... BTW: The symbolic approach lets you (though expensive operation) guess what roman number xy probably is, though its in a wrong format. Most probably we'll merge the best of both worlds in a later Math::Roman version. Bye PetaMem	[reply]

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Re: Re: symbolic increment of roman numerals
by PetaMem (Priest) on May 05, 2002 at 12:21 UTC

I contacted the author of the Math::Roman module and reported some bugs, so the 1.07 should be usable now. The big difference in the approach, is the symbolic operation and not internal transformations to/from another nuber system/scheme.

Try to increment the 'IM' number with the Math::Roman module...

BTW: The symbolic approach lets you (though expensive operation) guess what roman number xy probably is, though its in a wrong format.

Most probably we'll merge the best of both worlds in a later Math::Roman version.

Bye
PetaMem

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