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Who cares about time complexity (infosec.pub)
submitted 13 hours ago by qaz@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

IIV becomes IIIII, hm?

[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 25 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

IIV would never be used. In Roman numerals at most one smaller unit can come in front of a larger one. The code doesn't do any validation though.

[–] Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 10 hours ago

While it doesn't say anything about IIV specifically, they sure got creative enough to sometimes subtract more than one of the smaller units from a larger one.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world -3 points 12 hours ago

Yes, that does demonstrate my point.