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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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[–] rooroo@feddit.org 15 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It also works the other way round: wanna convert Arabic n to Roman? Just write n times ‘I’ and revert these replacement in inverse order.

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know what happens when the substring overlaps. Like for the number 6, will it replace the first 5 I's with V and end up correctly with VI or the last ones and come to IV? I would guess the former and maybe you know but I never thought about it before

[–] Atlas_@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Also does not handle 'IIIIIIIII' -> 'IX' properly

[–] pitiable_sandwich540@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago

If the substitution went right to left it might work.