[LeetCode] Count Odd Letters from Number

3581. Count Odd Letters from Number

You are given an integer n perform the following steps:

  • Convert each digit of n into its lowercase English word (e.g., 4 → “four”, 1 → “one”).
  • Concatenate those words in the original digit order to form a string s.

Return the number of distinct characters in s that appear an odd number of times.

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class Solution {
public:
int countOddLetters(int n) {
unordered_map<int,string> numbers = {
{0, "zero"},
{1, "one"},
{2, "two"},
{3, "three"},
{4, "four"},
{5, "five"},
{6, "six"},
{7, "seven"},
{8, "eight"},
{9, "nine"}
};
int res = 0;
while(n) {
int x = n % 10; n /= 10;
for(auto& ch : numbers[x]) {
res ^= 1<<(ch - 'a');
}
}

return __builtin_popcount(res);
}
};
Author: Song Hayoung
Link: https://songhayoung.github.io/2025/07/03/PS/LeetCode/count-odd-letters-from-number/
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