I am looking to compute the largest integer power of 6 that divides 73!
If it was something smaller, like 6! or even 7!, I could just use trial division on powers of 6. However, 73! has 106 decimal digits, and thus trial division isn't optimal.
Is there a smarter way to approach this problem?
Answer
HINT: There are ⌊73/3⌋=24 numbers divisible by 3, ⌊73/9⌋=8, numbers divisible by 9, ⌊73/27⌋=2 numbers divisible by 27 in the set [1,73]∩N. It should be easy now to obtain that the answer is 34 (with the value 634).
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