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JavaScript Roman Numeral Converter

While looking for something quick to do during a brief internet outage, I wrote some code to convert to and from Roman numerals. Once things were back up I searched for equivalent code, but only found stuff that was multiple pages long, limited the range of what it could convert, or both. I figured I [...]

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JavaScript String Multiplication Performance Exploration

Since JavaScript concatenates strings with the + operator, it would be nifty if it would also let you multiply strings using e.g. str * 10 (as can be done in Python, at least). Since you can't do that, and no native string multiplication method is provided, I recently explored a few ways to pull it [...]

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