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Here's my solution. That one was really tricky, but cool to explore the dynamic replace tool! Thanks @kelly_gilbert for the guidance on this one!
Quite sneaky level of difficulty - thank you @LordNeilLord , @JReid @AnandKumar1
Final solution is pretty small - this won't give anything away - detail of each piece in the spoiler below
Spoiler
This is really 3 pieces:
a) Create a list of all roman numerals.
b) use a find/replace to replace the roman digits with arabic
c) then execute the formula using a formula tool inside a macro.
A: Create a list of all roman numerals.
There are 2 pieces to this because roman numerals work in 2 different ways - additive (like V plus 1 = VI) and subtractive (VIII plus 1 = IX).
To make this easy - build the list of all the subtractive numbers (like 9; 450; etc) first; and then use additive logic to create all the other numbers
This is the next part which is an iterative macro to generate the final number set using additive logic.
C) Execute the formula
Trick here is to not do any work. Create a macro, then use the action tool to swap your numerical formula into the formula box, and then run it.
This is really 3 pieces:
a) Create a list of all roman numerals.
b) use a find/replace to replace the roman digits with arabic
c) then execute the formula using a formula tool inside a macro.
A: Create a list of all roman numerals.
There are 2 pieces to this because roman numerals work in 2 different ways - additive (like V plus 1 = VI) and subtractive (VIII plus 1 = IX).
To make this easy - build the list of all the subtractive numbers (like 9; 450; etc) first; and then use additive logic to create all the other numbers
This is the next part which is an iterative macro to generate the final number set using additive logic.
C) Execute the formula
Trick here is to not do any work. Create a macro, then use the action tool to swap your numerical formula into the formula box, and then run it.
