Problem Description

The task is to find and count all the positive integers up to a given number num whose digits add up to an even sum. For instance, if num is 13, the number 12 would be counted because its digits 1 + 2 equals 3, which is an odd total, and hence its digit sum is not even.

The challenge is to compute the number of these integers efficiently, without having to check each number individually, since that would be too slow for large values of num.

Intuition

The solution takes advantage of patterns in numbers and their sums. The key observations to arrive at the solution approach are:

1. Every group of ten numbers (0-9, 10-19, etc.) contains exactly five numbers with an even digit sum. This holds because within any such sequence, the sum of the digits changes in a predictable way when moving from one number to the next: the ones place increases by one until it resets at zero when it hits 10, and then the process repeats.

2. By considering the tens place separately, the solution calculates how many complete tens are in the number num. Multiply that count by 5 (since there are five numbers with an even digit sum in each group of ten) to get a baseline count.

3. Adjust the baseline count based on the remainder of num when divided by 10 (the last digit of num), and whether the sum of the tens digits is odd or even.

The formula ans = num // 10 * 5 - 1 starts by calculating the baseline even digit sum count, then subtracts 1 to adjust for the starting point (as the sequence starts at 0, not 1).

Next, the code calculates the sum of the tens place digits to determine if the sum, including the ones place of the original num, is even or odd. Depending on this result and the value of the last digit of num, the final answer (ans) must be corrected.

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Solution Approach

The provided Python solution uses mathematical reasoning rather than brute force iteration over every number up to num. Here's a detailed breakdown of the implementation:

• First, it calculates the number of complete tens in num—this tells us how many groups of ten we have to deal with. Each group of ten has exactly five numbers with an even digit sum, hence num // 10 * 5. This gives us a preliminary count.

• It subtracts 1 from this count by doing ans = num // 10 * 5 - 1 because the sequence we are counting starts from 1 and not 0. For example, if num is 20, without the subtraction, we would count from 0 to 19, but we actually need to count from 1 to 20.

• Then the algorithm calculates the sum of the tens place digits with the snippet:

  x, s = num // 10, 0
  while x:
      s += x % 10
      x //= 10

  This loops through each digit of num / 10 and adds it to s. The significance of this sum is to determine if the sum of all digits besides the last digit is odd or even, which influences the count adjustment in the subsequent step.

• Finally, the adjustment is done with the line:

  ans += (num % 10 + 2 - (s & 1)) >> 1

  Here's what happens in this line:

  • num % 10 gives us the last digit of num.

  • The expression (s & 1) gives us 1 if the sum of tens place digits s is odd, and 0 if it's even.

  • By adding 2 and then subtracting (s & 1), we're effectively deciding whether to add 1 or 2 to the final ans. This accounts for whether the sum will turn even after including the last digit.

  • The >> 1 is a bitwise right shift which divides the number by 2, discarding the remainder. This is used to finally adjust the answer correctly, accounting for the fact that only half of the adjustments (whether we add 1 or 2) result in an even total digit sum.

The key algorithmic patterns used in this solution are mathematical counting and digit manipulation, along with efficient arithmetic operations that replace the need for any complex data structures.

Example Walkthrough

To illustrate the solution approach, let's consider the number num = 23. We want to find how many positive integers less than or equal to 23 have a digit sum that is even.

Following the steps outlined in the solution approach:

1. We first calculate the number of complete tens in 23, which is 2 (from 23 // 10). Since each group of 10 has exactly five numbers with an even digit sum, this gives us 2 * 5 = 10 as our preliminary count.

2. Now, we subtract 1 because we are counting from 1 rather than starting from 0. The count becomes 10 - 1 = 9.

3. Next, we determine the sum of the tens place digits:

   • 23 // 10 gives us 2.
   • Since 2 is less than 10, the loop terminates after adding 2 to s.
   • The sum of the tens place digits is s = 2, which is even.

4. The last digit of num (23) is 3 (23 % 10).

5. Finally, we make the adjustment:

   • s & 1 will evaluate to 0 since 2 (the sum of tens place digits) is even.
   • The correction (num % 10 + 2) >> 1 equals (3 + 2) >> 1, which simplifies to 5 >> 1 or, in other terms, 5 // 2, which equals 2.

6. Since the tens place sum s is even, there's no need to further adjust the result for this case.

7. Adding the correction to our count gives 9 + 2 = 11. Therefore, there are 11 numbers less than or equal to 23 with an even digit sum.

To verify our method, we can manually count the numbers with even digit sums up to 23:

• Even digit sum numbers: 2, 4, 6, 8, 11, 13, 15, 17, 20, 22, 24 (treating 24 as 2 and 4 since we're looking at numbers up to 23)
• Count of even digit sum numbers: 11

The manual count confirms that our method yields the correct result.

Solution Implementation

Time and Space Complexity

The given Python code implements an algorithm that counts how many integers from 1 to num have an even digit sum. The time complexity and space complexity of this algorithm are analyzed as follows:

Time Complexity

1. The first line within the countEven method, ans = num // 10 * 5 - 1, involves a few constant-time arithmetic operations (integer division, multiplication, and subtraction) and therefore executes in O(1) time.
2. The while-loop iterates over the number of digits in num // 10, which is proportional to the logarithm of num. Hence, the loop runs in O(log(num)) time.
3. Inside the loop, again only constant-time operations—modulus, integer division, and accumulation into s—are performed.
4. The last line outside the loop involves a few more constant-time arithmetic operations, including modulus, addition, bitwise AND, subtraction, and bit-shifting.

Overall, the most time-consuming part of the algorithm is the while-loop, so the time complexity is O(log(num)).

Space Complexity

For space complexity:

1. The method uses a fixed number of integer variables ans, x, s, and those used for simple calculations. This occupies a constant amount of space.
2. No additional data structures that grow with the input size are used.
3. The space taken to store the intermediate results does not depend on the size of num, as it is only affected by the number of digits in num which is logarithmic in size.

Therefore, the space complexity of the algorithm is O(1) as it requires a constant amount of space regardless of the input size.

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