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by jleyank 217 days ago
When Arabic numerals are banned, will Roman numerals be handled as an int or a char? How will floating point numbers be represented, and will they ban the decimal point as well. And without the zero, how will programs indicate successful termination??
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how would binary representation work with roman numerals ?
As far as the calculations go, the same way. It would be the numbers we put on the screen that would change. It would make ascii numbers difficult.
And it's XI-VIII-MMXXV today, simple.

Splitting bills and calculators will be fun.

Sorry ISO demands this

It is MMXXV-XI-VIII