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
Solutions
Solution 1: Enumeration
Thinking
With \(\textit{high}\le 10^4\), every integer in the range can be tested: even length and equal digit sums on the two halves. Digit DP is unnecessary.
We enumerate each integer \(x\) in the range \([\textit{low}, \textit{high}]\), and check whether it is a palindromic number. If it is, then the answer \(\textit{ans}\) is increased by \(1\).
The time complexity is \(O(n \log m)\), and the space complexity is \(O(\log m)\), where \(n\) is the number of integers in the range \([\textit{low}, \textit{high}]\), and \(m\) is the maximum integer given in the problem.