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A006879 Number of Primes by Number of Digits

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Numerics;

namespace Algorithms.Sequences
{
    /// <summary>
    ///     <para>
    ///         Number of primes with n digits
    ///         (The number of primes between 10^(n-1) and 10^n).
    ///     </para>
    ///     <para>
    ///         Wikipedia: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime-counting_function.
    ///     </para>
    ///     <para>
    ///         OEIS: https://oeis.org/A006879.
    ///     </para>
    /// </summary>
    public class NumberOfPrimesByNumberOfDigitsSequence : ISequence
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets sequence of number of primes.
        /// </summary>
        public IEnumerable<BigInteger> Sequence
        {
            get
            {
                ISequence primes = new PrimesSequence();
                var powerOf10 = new BigInteger(1);
                var counter = new BigInteger(0);

                foreach (var p in primes.Sequence)
                {
                    if (p > powerOf10)
                    {
                        yield return counter;
                        counter = 0;
                        powerOf10 *= 10;
                    }

                    counter++;
                }
            }
        }
    }
}