In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Cutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 thought about it, made an estimate about how short it would be possible to get that and decided not to pursue it. If the challenge had been for addition only, I would have tried though, because I think it's mainly subtraction that's icky. I think addition only would have made the fonality golf more interesting.