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Cistercian Converter II: Cistercian To Integer by freeman_lex -

The Cistercian number-notation was invented in the late 13th century by Cistercian monks, near the border region between France and Belgium. For two centuries, the number system was used by monks belonging to the order across all of Europe as an alternative to the well-known Roman numerals and the ‘novel’ Hindu-Arabic numerals, the latter of which were just beginning to get adopted at the time. In the mission you are given a Cistercian number and you need to return the respective integer.

Cistercian([
            [" ", " ", "0", " ", "0"],
            [" ", " ", "0", "0", " "],
            [" ", " ", "0", " ", " "],
            [" ", " ", "0", " ", " "],
            [" ", " ", "0", " ", " "],
            [" ", " ", "0", " ", " "],
            [" ", " ", "0", " ", " "],
        ]) == 4
Cistercian([
            ["0", "0", "0", " ", " "],
            [" ", "0", "0", " ", " "],
            [" ", " ", "0", " ", " "],
            [" ", " ", "0", " ", " "],
            [" ", " ", "0", " ", " "],
            [" ", " ", "0", " ", " "],
            [" ", " ", "0", " ", " "],
        ]) == 50

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