On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Nicholas Tollervey <nt...@ntoll.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 13:23 +0100, John Pinner wrote: >> On 9 September 2011 13:02, Tim Golden <m...@timgolden.me.uk> wrote: >> > On 09/09/2011 12:04, Nicholas Tollervey wrote: >> >> >> >> Here's one from me to kick things off: >> >> >> >> Roman Numeral Calculator - e.g. XI - III = IIX (Apparently, it's not >> >> as easy as you'd think. Parsing / converting between Roman numerals / >> >> numeric values apparently has some interesting "weird" rules to take >> >> into account). :-) >> > >> > For those who haven't been involved, Nicholas has been trying to >> > get us to vote for this Roman Numeral Converter pretty much every >> > London Python Dojo for the last two years :) >> > > Shhhhh, don't tell them that! It'll never get chosen. :-/ > >> Maybe we should humour him, then. >> What I'd like to know, is what about zero? >> > > Or floats...? > >> > Maybe Coventry will be his lucky place? >> >> So we have to send him to Coventry so he can get it? >> > > B'dum tish. > > Here's another favourite of mine: > > Create a simple text adventure game world. Navigate with commands like > n,s,e and w and look at your surroundings with the, er, "look" command. > Great fun if you want to understand directed graphs. :-) > > A variation on this theme is a "Hunt the Wumpus" clone. But then Tim > would have to admit to *his* dojo "testing" secret. > >> john >> -- >> _______________________________________________ >> python-uk mailing list >> python-uk@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > > > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > >
Fwiw, the more interesting challenge is to write an efficient Roman Numeral calculator that doesn't convert between numerals and numeric values. How do you multiply IX and V in a non-decimal world? It's not *that* hard, but good for stimulating debate. Steve Stagg _______________________________________________ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk
