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Old 12-09-2014
Here you go...

The short basic article as uploaded many years ago...

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# 9  
Old 12-10-2014
True that.
But since underscore is not used by romans otherwise, and you dont mention it either in your article, and upperscore is not available in shell, and the article used underscores too.

Personaly, i find the underlined ones easier to read:
Code:
./roman.sh 32500
CCCI)))CCCI)))CCCI)))CCI))CCI))D

./roman.sh 32500
XXXMMD

And be honest, which one is more 'classic'?
Code:
Copyright CI)CI)XIV XII X 
Copyright MMXIV XII X

But i have to admit, the CI) solution is (alot) easier (than expected) for an algorythm to 'count' with higher numbers.
Code:
			*)	# Count it up
				Tone=CI\)
				Tfive=I\)		# Quite irritating to my understanding, but anyway...
				Tten=CCI\)\)
				DEPTH=$[ $len - 3 ]	# 1 = 1000 = initial template
				while [[ $DEPTH -gt 1 ]]
				do	Tone="C$Tone)"
					Tfive="C$Tfive)"
					Tten="C$Tten)"
					DEPTH=$(($DEPTH-1))
				done
				output+="$(roman_val $num $Tone $Tfive $Tten  )"
				;;

Have a nice day! Smilie

Last edited by sea; 12-10-2014 at 05:59 AM..
# 10  
Old 12-10-2014
His sea...
Quote:
......and upperscore is not available in shell, and the article used underscores too.
Ha ha, yeah, but it does look like an overscore and as the terminal has fixed width characters then it is easy to position underscores as overscores where you like... ;o)

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