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<blockquote><i>I tried many magic formulas, but this happens to be one of the first
ones I tried since the $m x $& tends to multiply the result by 10 each
time, so getting a result that's one longer each time, about the only
somewhat regular pattern in roman numerals.</i></blockquote>
<p align="right"><small>-- Ton, remarking on how he found his magic formula [href://http://groups.google.com/group/pl.comp.lang.perl/browse_frm/thread/6e0afdfe37ec51be/dbf17d1a9c9adee0?hl=en&fwc=1|back in 2004]</small></p>
<p>I suppose if I had done my research better, I would have known that Ton had reached his result based on exactly the same methodology that I posted above. But seriously:</p>
<p><code>4x$&%1859^7</code></p>
<p>xor 7? Now that's just crazy.</p>
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