for instance,
n = 3432, result 4 n = 45, result 2 n = 33215, result 5 n = -357, result 3
I guess I could just turn it into a string then get the length of the string but that seems convoluted and hack-y.
floor (log10 (abs (x))) + 1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithm