Hi, On 9 September 2011 15:10, Stestagg <stest...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
I don't know, but I guess that I'd start by finding out how the Romans did it. John -- _______________________________________________ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk
