JavaScript: Get how many digits are there in a decimal number
/**
* 1 + Floor(LogBase10(number))
*
*/
function digits(n) { return 1+Math.floor(Math.log(n)/Math.log(10));
}
Yes, javascript doesn’t have a Math.log10() function.
I tried doing it by dividing by Math.ln10 constant but the function won’t return the correct number of digits when you pass numbers like 100,1000,10000,etc. So I just divided by Math.log(10) and it seems to work.
June 9th, 2011 at 7:36 pm
I know your post is old, but I was looking for this and found the following is actually faster:
function digits(n) { return ( n + “” ).length };
It tends to run about 25% faster. (To see this do it in a loop 10000000 times or so)