aren't roman numerals the tdd example in dive into python?
there's a good section in alex bellos' "adventures in numberland" on roman
numerals, where he briefly dips into how the romans did arithmetic - you can
use roman numerals a bit like an abacus, apparently...
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 3:18 PM,
Ancient number systems? There's some good write ups of other old number
systems here...http://www.math.wichita.edu/history/topics/num-sys.html
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On 9 September 2011 15:10, Stestagg wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Nicholas Tollervey wrote:
>> On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 13:23 +0100, John Pinner wrote:
>>> On 9 September 2011 13:02, Tim Golden wrote:
>>> > On 09/09/2011 12:04, Nicholas Tollervey wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Here's one from
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Nicholas Tollervey wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 13:23 +0100, John Pinner wrote:
>> On 9 September 2011 13:02, Tim Golden wrote:
>> > On 09/09/2011 12:04, Nicholas Tollervey wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Here's one from me to kick things off:
>> >>
>> >> Roman Numeral Calcul
On 09/09/2011 14:08, Nicholas Tollervey wrote:
A variation on this theme is a "Hunt the Wumpus" clone. But then Tim
would have to admit to *his* dojo "testing" secret.
Well *someone* liked it:
http://themonkeyproject.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/hunt-the-wumpus/
TJG
On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 13:23 +0100, John Pinner wrote:
> On 9 September 2011 13:02, Tim Golden 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 yo
On 9 September 2011 12:04, Nicholas Tollervey wrote:
> 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). :-)
Would it
> Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 13:23:18 +0100
> From: funth...@gmail.com
> To: python-uk@python.org
> Subject: Re: [python-uk] Dojo at PyconUK
>
> On 9 September 2011 13:02, Tim Golden wrote:
> > On 09/09/2011 12:04, Nicholas Tollervey wrote:
> >>
> >
On 09/09/2011 13:23, John Pinner wrote:
On 9 September 2011 13:02, Tim Golden wrote:
Maybe Coventry will be his lucky place?
So we have to send him to Coventry so he can get it?
You surely can't have been the first person to make that
comment in the context of this year's PyConUK ??
TJG
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On 9 September 2011 13:02, Tim Golden 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
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
in
Hi Folks,
In case you haven't realised, it'll be Pycon UK in just over a fortnight's
time. It's going to be great fun and the more the merrier so don't hesitate to
book! (see: http://pyconuk.org)
One of the activities to take place at this year's event will be a London-style
code dojo. For tha
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