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Challenge #183: Roman Numeral Math

jamielaird
14 - Magnetar

Problema solverant:

 

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danilang
19 - Altair
19 - Altair

Here's my PEMDAS compliant, non-macro solution. 

 

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All the heavy lifting is done in the Multi-Row tool, which converts IX to 9 and adds the brackets necessary so the Summarize tool can create a mathematically correct formula to pass to the dynamic replace tool.

 

Dan 

 

 

Brian_Stoffel
8 - Asteroid

It technically works.

Nacho
6 - Meteoroid

PFA my solution

DanielMS
Alteryx
Alteryx
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DataBlender
11 - Bolide

Bit convoluted in the middle but got there eventually.

JamesHa
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)
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JoshuaGostick
11 - Bolide

My solution 🙂

 

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nickjastrzebski
8 - Asteroid

This one was good fun, but ended up getting quite involved! I think I ended up over-complicating things at the end with a string-to-formula macro, but it does work!

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LordNeilLord
15 - Aurora
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