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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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[โ€“] ray@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children) 
public static int convertRomanNumeral(String numeral)
{
  numeral = numeral.replace("M", "DD")
    .replace("CD", "CCCC")
    .replace("D", "CCCCC")
    .replace("C", "LL")
    .replace("XL", "XXXX")
    .replace("L", "XXXXX")
    .replace("X", "VV")
    .replace("IV", "IIII")
    .replace("V", "IIIII");
  return numeral.length();
}
[โ€“] qaz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago 
public static int convertRomanNumeral(String numeral)
{
  return numeral.replace("M", "DD")
    .replace("CD", "CCCC")
    .replace("D", "CCCCC")
    .replace("C", "LL")
    .replace("XL", "XXXX")
    .replace("L", "XXXXX")
    .replace("X", "VV")
    .replace("IV", "IIII")
    .replace("V", "IIIII")
    .length();
}