Re: [Caml-list] is there a Roman Numeral library

["Nathan Mishra Linger" <nathan.mishralinger@gmail.com>]

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Hi Ashish,

Here is something I wrote a while back.  Let me know if it works out for
you.

Nathan

2008/3/14 Ashish Agarwal <agarwal1975@gmail.com>:

> Hi all. Does anyone have an OCaml libary for working with Roman Numerals?
> Probably easy to write but am hoping it already exists. Thank you.
>
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(*
        roman numeral conversions
 *)

(******************************************************************************)
(* arabic <== roman *)

exception BadNumeral of char

let eval = function
  | 'I' ->         1
  | 'V' ->         5
  | 'X' ->        10
  | 'L' ->        50
  | 'C' ->       100
  | 'D' ->       500
  | 'M' ->      1000
  | c   -> raise(BadNumeral(c))

let arabic x = 
  let n = String.length x in
  let rec loop i v p =
        if i < n then
          let c = eval (String.get x i) in
          loop (i+1) (if p < c then v-p else v+p) c
        else v + p
  in
    if n > 0
    then let v = eval (String.get x 0) in loop 1 0 v
    else 0

(******************************************************************************)
(* (arabic ==> roman) abstract interpretation on SIZES *)

let numerals_size = 7

let digit_size = function
  | 0 -> 0 | 1 -> 1 | 2 -> 2 | 3 -> 3 | 4 -> 2
  | 5 -> 1 | 6 -> 2 | 7 -> 3 | 8 -> 4 | 9 -> 2
  | _ -> assert false

let rec count_size k = function
  | (0,_) -> k
  | (n,j) ->
        if j >= 3
        then count_size (digit_size (n mod 10) + k) (n/10,j-2)
        else n+k

let roman_size n =
        if n < 0 then 0 else
        count_size 0 (n,numerals_size)

(******************************************************************************)
(* arabic ==> roman *)

exception Negative

let numerals = ['I';'V';'X';'L';'C';'D';'M']

let roman n =
  let size = roman_size n in
  let x = String.make size 'M' in
  let ( ++ ) c k = String.set x k c; k-1 in
  let digit d one five ten k =
    match d with
    | 0 -> k
    | 1 ->  one ++ k
    | 2 ->  one ++ (one ++ k)
    | 3 ->  one ++ (one ++ (one ++ k))
    | 4 ->  one ++ (five ++ k)
    | 5 -> five ++ k
    | 6 -> five ++ (one ++ k)
    | 7 -> five ++ (one ++ (one ++ k))
    | 8 -> five ++ (one ++ (one ++ (one ++ k)))
    | 9 ->  one ++ (ten ++ k)
    | _ -> raise Negative
  in
  let rec count k = function
   | 0,_ -> ()
   | n,[_] -> ()
   | n,(one :: five :: ((ten :: _) as next)) ->
        count (digit (n mod 10) one five ten k) (n/10, next)
   | _ -> assert false
  in
  count (size-1) (n,numerals); x

(******************************************************************************)
(* debugging *)

let debug = false

let () = if debug then begin
  let rec upto i j = if i > j then [] else i :: upto (i+1) j in
  let test n = arabic (roman n) = n in
  let _ = List.for_all test (upto 0 5000) in
  ()
end


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exception BadNumeral of char

val arabic : string -> int

exception Negative

val roman : int -> string