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Efficient Integer Palindrome Checker
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def is_palindrome(number: int) -> bool: | |
"""Return True if number is palindrome integer. | |
Designed to be efficient with integers of arbitrary length. | |
""" | |
if number < 0: | |
return False | |
if number < 10: | |
return True | |
reversed = 0 | |
while number > reversed: | |
number, rem = divmod(number, 10) | |
reversed = reversed * 10 + rem | |
# If odd number of digits, ignore final digit in reversed. | |
return number == reversed or number == reversed // 10 | |
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