The competition was for golfers and golfer wannabees like me.

I'm a bad golfer. Despite of that, I have been lurking quite some time on #perlgolf on IRC, so maybe that's why I'm "in the know" ;-) ... anyways, for those new to the sport Super Search helps. Searching for "golf book" turns up:

• Re: Perl Golf 101
• Re^2: Perl Golf 101
• Re^2: One line Fibonacci generator
• Re: Secret Perl Operators: the boolean list squash operator, x!!
• Re: Hidden Secrets of PERL

amongst others, which all mention The Perl Golf Book. The algorithm is there, just search the pdf for "roman".

It's not Fonality's fault you didn't see it. (I used it in some entries, got them rejected and thought it was because of thospel's algorithm, and didn't try any further).

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