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>>equili+(OP)
Hmm, my solution would be to convert the number to a string and return its length. Easily done in Perl:

  perl -e 'print length 987654'
  6

Similarly easy in Lisp with either of write-to-string, prin1-to-string, and princ-to-string. I expect python to have some such built-in function too.

>>jcynix+Bo3
It is mentioned at the end of the article. In Python it's as simple as len(str(x)).