Arithmetic derivative by tails

read -d\  a
z="Wait, that's not a number..."
for((b=10#${a:?},z=0,i=a+199999?2:-a;b/2;b%i?++i:(z+=a/i,b/=i))){
:
}
echo $z
. *

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