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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].

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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.

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Constraints:

  • 1 <= low <= high <= 104

Solution


Python3

class Solution:
    def countSymmetricIntegers(self, low: int, high: int) -> int:
        res = 0
 
        def good(x):
            A = []
 
            while x > 0:
                A.append(x % 10)
                x //= 10
            
            N = len(A)
            return N % 2 == 0 and sum(A[:N//2]) == sum(A[N//2:])
 
        for x in range(low, high + 1):
            if good(x):
                res += 1
        
        return res