Jake Wharton recently caused me to go down yet another silly optimization rabbit hole when he nonchalantly linked to a piece of code used to count the number of digits in a Long during a Slack conversation about Kotlin’s lack of ternary operator. This of course triggered folks like Madis Pink and me to want to optimize it… Counting digits Link to heading The simplest way to count the number of digits would be to compute log10(n).
