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Since you're being pedantic my reply is going to be equally pedantic: no, this is not correct if you understand the difference between numerals and numbers.

A numeral is a written way of denoting a number. So while the string "IIIIIIII..." arguably contains a Roman numeral denoting the number 4 as a substring (if you accept "IIII" as a Roman numeral), it still does not contain the Roman numeral "IV" as a substring.

Or phrased differently, by your logic you might as well say that "IIIIIIII..." contains the Arabic numeral "4". It doesn't.



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