# Roman Numerals Write a function to convert from normal numbers to Roman Numerals. The Romans were a clever bunch. They conquered most of Europe and ruled it for hundreds of years. They invented concrete and straight roads and even bikinis. One thing they never discovered though was the number zero. This made writing and dating extensive histories of their exploits slightly more challenging, but the system of numbers they came up with is still in use today. For example the BBC uses Roman numerals to date their programmes. The Romans wrote numbers using letters - I, V, X, L, C, D, M. (notice these letters have lots of straight lines and are hence easy to hack into stone tablets). ``` 1 => I 10 => X 7 => VII ``` There is no need to be able to convert numbers larger than about 3000. (The Romans themselves didn't tend to go any higher) Wikipedia says: Modern Roman numerals ... are written by expressing each digit separately starting with the left most digit and skipping any digit with a value of zero. To see this in practice, consider the example of 1990. In Roman numerals 1990 is MCMXC: 1000=M 900=CM 90=XC 2008 is written as MMVIII: 2000=MM 8=VIII See also: http://www.novaroma.org/via_romana/numbers.html ## Hints To complete this exercise you need to implement the function `numerals`, that *maybe* converts a number to a *string* representing a roman numeral. Your function is expected to, at least, convert numbers up to 3000, but is up to you to decide how far you want to go. ## Getting Started For installation and learning resources, refer to the [exercism help page](http://exercism.io/languages/haskell). ## Running the tests To run the test suite, execute the following command: ```bash stack test ``` #### If you get an error message like this... ``` No .cabal file found in directory ``` You are probably running an old stack version and need to upgrade it. #### Otherwise, if you get an error message like this... ``` No compiler found, expected minor version match with... Try running "stack setup" to install the correct GHC... ``` Just do as it says and it will download and install the correct compiler version: ```bash stack setup ``` ## Running *GHCi* If you want to play with your solution in GHCi, just run the command: ```bash stack ghci ``` ## Feedback, Issues, Pull Requests The [exercism/haskell](https://github.com/exercism/haskell) repository on GitHub is the home for all of the Haskell exercises. If you have feedback about an exercise, or want to help implementing a new one, head over there and create an issue. We'll do our best to help you! ## Source The Roman Numeral Kata [http://codingdojo.org/cgi-bin/index.pl?KataRomanNumerals](http://codingdojo.org/cgi-bin/index.pl?KataRomanNumerals) ## Submitting Incomplete Solutions It's possible to submit an incomplete solution so you can see how others have completed the exercise.