Roman numbers is a standard programming exercise, to give it a small twist, we input roman numeral, turn it to value and prepare minimal version of it using the substraction rule.
Correctness of the input is not checked so Garbage in - Garbage out.
Minimizing roman number to use substraction rule
"""Given correct, but maybe not minimal Roman number, prepare the mimimal version from it's value"""
roman_values = (('I',1), ('IV',4), ('V',5), ('IX',9),('X',10),('XL',40),('L',50),('XC',90),('C',100),
('CD', 400), ('D', 500), ('CM', 900), ('M',1000))
def romanvalue(roman):
total=0
romancopy = roman[:].upper()
for symbol,value in reversed(roman_values):
while romancopy.startswith(symbol):
total += value
romancopy = romancopy[len(symbol):]
return total
def minimal(total):
value = ''
while total > 0:
for symbol,symbol_value in reversed(roman_values):
while total >= symbol_value:
value += symbol
total -= symbol_value
return value
value = romanvalue(raw_input('Give roman number:'))
print('Minimal is: %s (value %i)' % (minimal(value), value))
""" Output:
Give roman number:xxxxiiii
Minimal is: XLIV (value 44)
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