Take a lock at Ruby Quiz #22 for a bunch of solutions to this problem.
Why solve something that's already been done a hundred times? =)

http://www.rubyquiz.com/quiz22.html

Regards
 Ola Bini
 http://ola-bini.blogspot.com


----- Original Message -----
From: Dark Ambient <sambient / gmail.com>
Date: Sunday, June 25, 2006 10:11 pm
Subject: Re: help please: math or variable problem
To: ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)

> Ah ha! Well back to the drawing board. :)
> 
> Stuart
> 
> On 6/25/06, dda <headspin / gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 6/25/06, Dark Ambient <sambient / gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Anyway, down below I'm taking a number between 10 and 49 and 
> converting> to a
> > > Roman Numeral.  I've been experimenting with 46, which should 
> return> XXXXVI
> > > only it's returning XXXXVIIIII
> >
> > No. It should return XLVI [10 to 50, 5, 1].
> >
> > X, XX, XXX, XL, L, LX, LXX, LXXX, XC etc...
> >
> > --
> > Didier
> >
> >
>