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Description


You are given two positive integers low and high.

An integer x consisting of 2 * n digits is symmetric if the sum of the first n digits of x is equal to the sum of the last n digits of x. Numbers with an odd number of digits are never symmetric.

Return the number of symmetric integers in the range [low, high].

 

Example 1:

Input: low = 1, high = 100
Output: 9
Explanation: There are 9 symmetric integers between 1 and 100: 11, 22, 33, 44, 55, 66, 77, 88, and 99.

Example 2:

Input: low = 1200, high = 1230
Output: 4
Explanation: There are 4 symmetric integers between 1200 and 1230: 1203, 1212, 1221, and 1230.

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= low <= high <= 104

Solution


Python3

class Solution:
    def countSymmetricIntegers(self, low: int, high: int) -> int:
        res = 0
        
        for i in range(low, high + 1):
            s = str(i)
            N = len(s)
            
            if N >= 2 and N % 2 == 0:
                first = sum(int(x) for x in s[:N // 2])
                last = sum(int(x) for x in s[N // 2:])
                
                if first == last:
                    res += 1
        
        return res