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1. Toothpaste Pony!

   !CoderPonies Anyone know a simple algorithm for finding the number of digits in a number? Like 138273 = 6. xD

   Wednesday, 19-Sep-12 22:17:58 UTC from web
   1. Bit Shift

      @minti Divide by ten until the number is less than ten, while keeping a count of number of divisions?

      Wednesday, 19-Sep-12 22:21:55 UTC from web
      1. Toothpaste Pony!

         @cabinboybitshift Was trying to avoid using division. Hmm, time for a jsperf I think xD

         Wednesday, 19-Sep-12 22:22:26 UTC from web
         1. Bit Shift

            @minti Of course, considering how optimised various conversions are, you might find len(n.toString()) ends up actually faster than anything you could hack together. :P

            Wednesday, 19-Sep-12 22:23:45 UTC from web
         2. Toothpaste Pony!

            @minti http://jsperf.com/digits-in-a-number what

            Wednesday, 19-Sep-12 22:36:36 UTC from web
            1. Toothpaste Pony!

               @minti I'd appreciate if everyone opened this in their browsers and ran it, please.

               Wednesday, 19-Sep-12 22:38:06 UTC from web
               1. That wierd guy next door

                  @minti What does it prove

                  Wednesday, 19-Sep-12 22:38:51 UTC from web
                  1. Toothpaste Pony!

                     @renovatedkitchen Which method of getting the number of digits in a number is fastest. So far, regular old "count them by dividing by 10" seems fastest. O_o;

                     Wednesday, 19-Sep-12 22:39:32 UTC from web
                     1. Ashton Davis

                        @minti Wait what? I'm lost here

                        Wednesday, 19-Sep-12 22:40:01 UTC from web
                        1. That wierd guy next door

                           @minti Im with bagles

                           Wednesday, 19-Sep-12 22:40:27 UTC from web
                        2. Toothpaste Pony!

                           @baglesman Click link, "run test", let it finish, close page. It'll just collect some information for me. :p

                           Wednesday, 19-Sep-12 22:40:45 UTC from web
                           1. Thomas

                              @minti @marshy Oh! what are you guys up to ?

                              Wednesday, 19-Sep-12 22:43:12 UTC from web
                              1. I am an idiot

                                 @nlghtmaremoon I have no clue. I just got done watching a horror movie and I did this test thingy.

                                 Wednesday, 19-Sep-12 22:44:01 UTC from web
               2. RDN's Lucifer

                  @minti I'd probably get better results by closing this chrome profile and running it on a vanilla one, but oh well. http://ur1.ca/ac4zv

                  
                  Wednesday, 19-Sep-12 22:40:40 UTC from web
                  1. Toothpaste Pony!

                     @nerthos Thanks!

                     Wednesday, 19-Sep-12 22:41:18 UTC from web
                     1. Ashton Davis

                        @minti @nerthos But, what?

                        Wednesday, 19-Sep-12 22:42:25 UTC from web
                     2. RDN's Lucifer

                        @minti What's this for?

                        Wednesday, 19-Sep-12 22:42:48 UTC from web
                        1. Toothpaste Pony!

                           @nerthos Me being OCD about how to do stuff the fastest way possible. xD

                           Wednesday, 19-Sep-12 22:43:45 UTC from web
                           1. RDN's Lucifer

                              @minti Oh, sounds typical you xD

                              Wednesday, 19-Sep-12 22:44:00 UTC from web
                              1. Toothpaste Pony!

                                 @nerthos Yeah, basically. xD

                                 Wednesday, 19-Sep-12 22:44:14 UTC from web
   2. Bit Shift

      @minti Of course, that would only work for integers, but still.

      Wednesday, 19-Sep-12 22:22:27 UTC from web