On 1/17/07, Daniel Cutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was just wondering, reading all your talk about your solutions to the fonality golf, I would assume that everyone converted in arabic, calculated and then converted back to roman. When I first had a look at the problem I thought that that would be the obvious way to do it. At the time I thought it would be shorter though to calculate in roman and just drop the conversion. My first solution was with all the conversion. I say that Ton had allready posted a 100 so I thought he must have gone the other way. So I tried. My best solution (247) did just that. Based on the Wikipedia article I tried to add and subtract the roman numerals directly. Did anybody else do that?
I had a solution that had bits that incremented and decremented a roman numeral. That way I could add to or subtract from the first number while decrementing the second until the second was zero. And so on. I think I got to around 220/230 with this method. I don't have it on me, either, and I think it was a blind alley I went up at one stage, so I probably won't have submitted it.. But the method to add or subtract directly in RN just seemed far too complicated to me. Jasper p.s. for($f=12;$f-->0;){ surely for($f=12;--$f;){ ?