The idea is flawed. No, really! People would start writing integer literals as floats. And the scheme doesn't cover floats (there is no standard way of writing decimal places in Roman numerals AFAIK). Rob Cliffe

3.14 == CCCXIVE-II (unscientific notation) I've always thought COBOL did a better job of EIBTI with spelled out keywords like ADD instead of + etc. This would clearly one up COBOL. (ADD ONE TO COBOL GIVING PYTHON) --- Bruce (via android)