When someone says AI will steal everybody's jobs
const symbols = {
"I": 1,
"V": 5,
"X": 10,
"L": 50,
"C": 100,
"D": 500,
"M": 1000
};
const romanToInt = function(s) {
let value = 0;
for (let i = 0; i < s.length - 1; i++) {
console.log("s", s[i])
console.log("s+1", s[i+1])
symbols[s[i]] < symbols[s[i+1]] ? value -= symbols[s[i]]: value += symbols[s[i]];
console.log("value", value)
}
return value + symbols[s[s.length-1]];
};
Input: "XXIV"
expected output: 24
Chat GPT answers...
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The function is called with the input string "XXIV". value is initialized to 0.
value is 0.
The for loop iterates over each character in the input string, except for the last character.
In the first iteration, the current character is "X" and the next character is "X", so value is incremented by 10, becoming 10.
In the second iteration, the current character is "X" and the next character is "I", so value is decremented by 10, becoming 0. Then value is decremented by 1, becoming -1.
In the third iteration, the current character is "I" and the next character is "V", so value is incremented by 1, becoming 0. Then value is incremented by 5, becoming 5.
After the loop has processed all but the last character in the Roman numeral, the value of the last character ("V") is added to value, which becomes 24.
The final value of value is returned, which represents the integer value of the input Roman numeral. In this case, the final value of value is 24, which is the correct integer value of the Roman numeral "XXIV".