Hello and welcome to the next live coding challenge!
Write a decoder of roman numerals, which receives roman numeral as a string and returns an integer number.
Roman symbols cheatsheet:
Symbol Value
I 1
V 5
X 10
L 50
C 100
D 500
M 1,000
You can repeat a symbol max 3 times:
II 2
III 3
CCC 300
If you are to repeat some symbol 4th time, use it as a negative value preceding a higher symbol:
IV 4
XC 90
Except for negative values, roman numbers start at the highest symbol and end at the lowest:
MCXIV 1114
MMCMXCIII 2993
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