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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??


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




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