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By rsazid99, history, 7 years ago, In English

Jimmy writes down the decimal representations of all natural numbers between and including m and n, (m ≤ n). How many zeroes will he write down?

Input Input starts with an integer T (≤ 11000), denoting the number of test cases.

Each case contains two unsigned 32-bit integers m and n, (m ≤ n).

Output For each case, print the case number and the number of zeroes written down by Jimmy.

Sample Input Output for Sample Input

5

10 11

100 200

0 500

1234567890 2345678901

0 4294967295

Case 1: 1

Case 2: 22

Case 3: 92

Case 4: 987654304

Case 5: 3825876150

what will be the dp states ? as i used the concept of Digit dp , so my states are dp[my current position][my last number][is the number started][is my current digit equal to my target digit] but i am getting correct output for 1st 3 cases, is there anything i am missing ?

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This algorithm should work, correct me if there are any mistakes. I will solve for 1 to n, you know how to fit this to your problem:

If number is ending with 9, then you can divide numbers from 0 to N (here you have to add additional case for 0 i.e. if m=0, then add 1 to answer) to 10 equal parts such that numbers in i'th part ends with digit i. Let solve(n) mean count of zeros from 1 to n. Then for each part there are solve(n/10) zeros besides part with 0 digit, though there are solve(n/10)+(n/10). (because of trailing 0's)

Otherwise, it is simple, answer is (count of zeros in n) + solve(n-1). This algorithm works in O(logN) with small constant.

Here is little C++ code:

intt solve (intt x) {
    if (x < 10) {
        return 0;
    }
    if (x % 10 == 9) {
        return 10 * solve (x / 10) + (x / 10);
    } else {
        return solve (x - 1) + c0 (x);
    }
}
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    can you please elaborate the line "Then for each part there are solve(n/10) zeros besides part with 0 digit, though there are solve(n/10)+(n/10). (because of trailing 0's)" , i didn't understand it

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      If number is not ending by 0, then obviously answer for that is solve(n/10) (because last digit doesn't matters)

      If number is ending by 0, then answer is that is solve(n/10) + (n/10), because there are n/10 numbers with ending 0 additionally.

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        if you don't mind, you can submit your code in this link http://www.lightoj.com/volume_showproblem.php?problem=1140

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          7 years ago, # ^ |
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          Got AC.

          Full code