import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.InputMismatchException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

/**
 * Built using CHelper plug-in
 * Actual solution is at the top
 */
public class Main {
        public static void main(String[] args) {
                InputStream inputStream = System.in;
                OutputStream outputStream = System.out;
                InputReader in = new InputReader(inputStream);
                PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(outputStream);
                TaskB solver = new TaskB();
                solver.solve(1, in, out);
                out.close();
        }

        static class TaskB {
                public void solve(int testNumber, InputReader in, PrintWriter out) {
                        int a = in.i();
                        int b = in.i();
                        int count = 0;
                        for (int i = a; i <= b; i++) {
                                if (isPalin(String.valueOf(i))) {
                                        count++;
                                }
                        }
                        out.println(count);
                }

                private boolean isPalin(String s) {

                        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(s);
                        if (s.equals(sb.reverse().toString())) return true;
                        return false;
                }

        }

        static class InputReader {
                InputStream is;
                private byte[] inbuf = new byte[1024];
                public int lenbuf = 0;
                public int ptrbuf = 0;

                public InputReader(InputStream is) {
                        this.is = is;
                }

                private int readByte() {
                        if (lenbuf == -1) throw new InputMismatchException();
                        if (ptrbuf >= lenbuf) {
                                ptrbuf = 0;
                                try {
                                        lenbuf = is.read(inbuf);
                                } catch (IOException e) {
                                        throw new InputMismatchException();
                                }
                                if (lenbuf <= 0) return -1;
                        }
                        return inbuf[ptrbuf++];
                }

                public int i() {
                        int num = 0, b;
                        boolean minus = false;
                        while ((b = readByte()) != -1 && !((b >= '0' && b <= '9') || b == '-')) ;
                        if (b == '-') {
                                minus = true;
                                b = readByte();
                        }

                        while (true) {
                                if (b >= '0' && b <= '9') {
                                        num = num * 10 + (b - '0');
                                } else {
                                        return minus ? -num : num;
                                }
                                b = readByte();
                        }
                }

        }
}



Measured memory_bytes: 38484