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Long Tran • Edited

Btw, base on your idea then I found out a solution (edit a little bit):
We need to store the index of the first appearance of decreasing character, for example:

  • 11110 ( the decreasing character is '1', but we need to store the index of the first time appearance of it in the number, the index here is number 0).
  • 12344296 ( the decreasing character is '4' and we store the index of its first appearance, is 3) Finally, we split the origin in 3 parts: ( assume our digits testcase right now is 12344296)
  • Firstly, the starting digits are digits.substring(0, indexAbove) -- 123
  • Secondly, only 1 digit in which value decreases by 1. -- 3
  • Finally, the latter part is 9999, you can concat the result to the number which equals to 10** (digits.length - indexAbove) - 1 , ** is power operator. Thank you for reading my idea.