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+function RomanToDecimal(str) {
+  var result = 0;
+  // the result is now a number, not a string
+  var decimal = [1000, 900, 500, 400, 100, 90, 50, 40, 10, 9, 5, 4, 1];
+  var roman = ["M", "CM","D","CD","C", "XC", "L", "XL", "X","IX","V","IV","I"];
+  for (var i = 0;i<=decimal.length;i++) {
+    while (str.indexOf(roman[i]) === 0){
+      result += decimal[i];
+      str = str.replace(roman[i],'');
+    }
+  }
+return result;
+  return
+}