Just another HART (Hospelian Arabic to Roman Transform) JAPH

$@=29628;s/./y$   IIVCXL426      (-:V$XIVX
LMCDIVX$dfor$$_   .=5x$&*8%      $@;$$$_=$
_/egfor-4e3..0;   $;=qq/LXX      IV+CXVII+
      CXV            +CX            VI+
      XXX            II+            XCV
      II+            CX+            CXI
      +CX            VI+            CIV
      +CI            +CX            IV+
      XXX            II+            LXX
      X+C               I+C      XIV
      +CV               III      +XX
      XII               +CI      V+X
      CVI               I+X      CIX
      +CV               II+      CI+
      CXI               V+X      LIV
      +X+               XLV      III
      C+C               MII      XV+
      DXI               M+I      MCC
      MCM                  +XXIII
      DCI                  MMV+II
      C+I                  MMVIII
/;$;=~s/\s+//g;            print+
eval(join+q/./,            map-${
$_},+split/\+/,            ~~$;);
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Inspired by Erudil's, There can be only one!, My 2 cents worth, my own The Power of Three, and (of course) thospel's original magic formula.

For those of you who prefer signatures and want (at least a little) more insight into what's going on:

s/./y$IVCXL426(-:$XLMCDIVX$dfor$$_.=5x$&*8%29628;$$$_=$_/egfor-4e3..0;
print+eval(join+qq/./,+map-${$_},split/\+|\n/,+qq/LXXIV+CXVII+CXV+CXVI
XXXII+XCVII+CX+CXI+CXVI+CIV+CI+CXIV+XXXII+LXXX+CI+CXIV+CVIII+XXXII+CIV
XCVII+XCIX+CVII+CI+CXIV+XLIV+X/)
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Re: Just another HART (Hospelian Arabic to Roman Transform) JAPH by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Nov 27, 2007 at 12:05 UTC
o0lit3, your JAPH brings back a flood of memories for me ... and not all sweet. :-) The punishing Fonality Christmas Roman Numeral contest, closely followed by the gruelling codegolf Roman to Decimal game. Ah, the good ol' days of punishment and torture. Curiously, HART won't help you much in the latter game, where 86 seems to be the HART limit, with 59 possible by other means. On the codegolf leaderboard, I recognized a few PM nicks, though very few from the original fwp Perl golf crowd. AFAICT, the centre of world golf has moved to Japan and multi-lingual golf the modern form of the game. To give it a try, I submitted entries in all four languages (Perl, Ruby, Python, PHP) in the Roman game, where the Perl leaderboard after nine months of competition is: `1. 59 bearstearns 2. 59 kounoike 3. 60 robin 4. 61 arpad 5. 62 eyepopslikeamosquito 6. 65 shinh 7. 66 ergasun 8. 66 redneval 9. 70 ott 10. 73 jojo 11. 73 yvl 12. 74 o0lit3 13. 77 ySas 14. 78 agenticarus 15. 79 tybalt89 16. 82 yojeb ... 24. 99 chargrill ... 47. 197 dankogai` [download] o0lit3, you only need to improve by one stroke to move into the Perl top ten. :-) I hope to be able to eventually peer at the other solutions and write up another Roman post mortem, but that depends on the web site. I'd like to see them close off each game after one year of play and publish all solutions for some post mortem fun.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Just another HART (Hospelian Arabic to Roman Transform) JAPH by ambrus (Abbot) on Nov 27, 2007 at 13:27 UTC
It also reminds me to a nice obfu with roman numerals: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.	[reply]


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