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Who cares about time complexity (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by qaz@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

IIV would never be used. In Roman numerals at most one smaller unit can come in front of a larger one. The code doesn't do any validation though.

[–] Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 3 days ago

While it doesn't say anything about IIV specifically, they sure got creative enough to sometimes subtract more than one of the smaller units from a larger one.