Problem 63. Encode Roman Numerals

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Cris Luengo on 15 Jul 2012

It would be good if Cody penalized huge strings. :)

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Chris Galbraith on 26 May 2021

Really neat solution!

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Dirk Engel on 20 Mar 2013

Solution uses regexprep with dynamic operators for the replacement expression which outsmarts Cody's size calculation.

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Kenz on 23 Feb 2012

This is just silly. It's gaming the Matlab grader, and not doing a particularly good job at that. Why should this stop at 3999?

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Kenz on 23 Feb 2012

Very nicely done.

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