Way to get number of digits in an int?

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Your String-based solution is perfectly OK, there is nothing “un-neat” about it. You have to realize that mathematically, numbers don’t have a length, nor do they have digits. Length and digits are both properties of a physical representation of a number in a specific base, i.e. a String.

A logarithm-based solution does (some of) the same things the String-based one does internally, and probably does so (insignificantly) faster because it only produces the length and ignores the digits. But I wouldn’t actually consider it clearer in intent – and that’s the most important factor.

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