NAME Acme::Roman - Do maths like Romans did SYNOPSIS use Acme::Roman; print I + II; # III, of course! DESCRIPTION The Roman Empire ruled over a large part of the ocidental world for a long time, probably too long for the conquested people. They were finally won and there are some who say it was because they could not do mathematics. Such liars! This module redeems Perl with the ungratefully forgotten Roman numbers, which now can find their glory again. INSPIRATION That module was inspired by Ruby Quiz - Roman Numerals (#22) http://rubyquiz.com/quiz22.html See the hightlighted solution at the Quiz Summary in the same page. EXAMPLES Take a look at eg/roman.pl in this distribution for an amusing example. BUGS Acme::Roman does not like numbers greater than 3999. Why would you like such big numbers? Only knows how to do addition, subtraction and multiplication. What else do you think that Romans did with such a lovely numeric system? Ranges (like I..X) don't work :( The actual implementation does a bit of brute force when defining empty prototypes so that barewords are resolved into subroutine calls. I don't know if it can be fixed. If you find a bug, tell Julio Caesar from a respectful and safe distance. (He's always looking for entertainment at the circus. And lions are ever hungry.) If you prefer, you might file a report at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Acme-Roman or via e-mail at bug-Acme-Roman@rt.cpan.org. (Ok, CPAN RT now likes me again.) AUTHOR Adriano R. Ferreira COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright (c) 2007, 2008 Adriano R. Ferreira The Acme::Roman module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.