Create Roman numerals
Roman numerals are well known. Although they are striking in a monumental
kind of way they are a clumsy way to represent numbers. Roman numerals are
often used to number rulers eg. Henry VIII, Louis XIV. They may used for
copyright dates for films or for prefaces in book. Roman numerals on gravestones
create an impression of dignity.
The Roman
numbering system lives on in English, which still uses Latin roots to express
numerical ideas eg. unilateral, duo, quadricep, septuagenarian,
decade, milliliter.
The big differences between Roman and Arabic numerals (the ones we use
today) are that Romans didn't have a symbol for 0, and that placement
within a number can sometimes indicate subtraction rather than addition.
This
program converts an Arabic integer number into its Roman number.