Reference no: EM135189

You will define an operation on positive integers called twiddle which consists of summing the squares of the digits of the input number (when represented as a decimal). Therefore, twiddle(23) = 22 + 32 = 13. A number's twiddle distance is the number of times one must repeatedly apply this operation to get to 1 (one). The twiddle distance of one is zero, and the twiddle distance of 23 is 3 because twiddle(23) = 13, twiddle(13) = 10, and twiddle(10) = 1. Some numbers never reach one, though, because they get stuck in a loop and therefore have infinite twiddle distance. you will call such numbers stuck numbers. Your assignment is to prepare a Python program which evaluates how many stuck numbers there are in a range of integers. The range will be input as two command-line arguments (defining an inclusive range).