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Roman representation of integers

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How do you find a roman numeral equivalent of an integer

I am looking for a simple algorithm (preferably in Python). How to translate a given integer number to a Roman number? 

string Roman(int Num){...}

For example, Roman(1981) must produce "MCMLXXXI".

Solution

  • I needed the opposite one time (going from Roman numerals to int). Wikipedia has surprisingly detailed information on how Roman numerals work. Once you realize that things are this well-defined and that a specification is available this easily, translating it to code is fairly trivial.