UVA - 185 Roman Numerals（回溯+剪枝）

Roman Numerals

The original system of writing numbers used by the early Romans was simple but cumbersome. Various letters were used to represent important numbers, and these were then strung together to represent other numbers with the values decreasing monotonically from left to right. The letters they used and the numbers that were represented are given in the following table.

I	1		V	5
X	10		L	50
C	100		D	500
M	1000

Thus 1993 was written as MDCCCCLXXXXIII. This system was then superseded by a partially place-oriented system, whereby if the above rule of decreasing values was broken, it meant that the immediately preceding (lower) value was deemed to be `negative' and was subtracted from the higher (out of place) value. In this system 1993 was usually written as MCMXCIII. There is still some controversy as to which letters could precede which other letters, but for the purposes of this problem we will assume the following restrictions:

1.

A letter from the left column can never appear more than three times in a row, and there can never be more than one other occurrence of that letter.

2.

A letter from the right column can never appear more than once.

3.

Once a letter has been used in a `negative' position, all subsequent characters (apart from the one immediately following) may not be greater than that character.

Thus we could write MXMIII for 1993 or CCXCIV for 294, however we could not write ILV for 54, nor could we write LIL for 99. Note that 299 could be written as CCXCIX or CCIC