How to count each digit in a range of integers?
- by Carlos Gutiérrez
Imagine you sell those metallic digits used to number houses, locker doors, hotel rooms, etc. You need to find how many of each digit to ship when your customer needs to number doors/houses:
1 to 100
51 to 300
1 to 2,000 with zeros to the left
The obvious solution is to do a loop from the first to the last number, convert the counter to a…