roman = "MDCLXVmdclxvi"; # UPPERCASE for thousands # adjust_roman = "CCXXmmccxxii"; arabic = (1000000, 500000, 100000, 50000, 10000, 5000, 1000, 500, 100, 50, 10, 5, 1); adjust_arabic = (100000, 100000, 10000, 10000, 1000, 1000, 100, 100, 10, 10, 1, 1, 0); def arabic_to_roman(dclxvi): org = dclxvi; # 666 # out = ""; for scale,arabic_scale in enumerate(arabic): if org == 0: break multiples = org / arabic_scale; org -= arabic_scale * multiples; out += roman[scale] * multiples; if org >= -adjust_arabic[scale] + arabic_scale: org -= -adjust_arabic[scale] + arabic_scale; out += adjust_roman[scale] + roman[scale] return out if __name__ == "__main__": test = (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,25,30,40,50,60,69,70, 80,90,99,100,200,300,400,500,600,666,700,800,900,1000,1009,1444,1666,1945,1997,1999, 2000,2008,2500,3000,4000,4999,5000,6666,10000,50000,100000,500000,1000000); for val in test: print '%d - %s'%(val, arabic_to_roman(val))