September 2011
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The ROMAN function converts an Arabic number into a Roman numeral string. As implemented in OpenOffice.org Calc, Roman numerals can only represent numbers from 0 to 3999; therefore, the number argument cannot be anything else but an integer from that range.
Here is an example of the use of the ROMAN function:
=ROMAN(2011)
returns MMXI.
Figure 9-6. Sample result of the ROMAN function
The second argument, mode, is an optional numerical value between 0 and 4. It specifies the degree of simplification of the resulting Roman numeral. Think of it as a way to shorten the resulting Roman numerals. Here is an example ...
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