Wednesday, April 5, 2017

algebra precalculus - Given n, find smallest number m such that m! ends with n zeros

I got this question as a programming exercise. I first thought it was rather trivial, and that m=5n because the number of trailing zeroes are given by the number of factors of 5 in m! (and factors of 2, but there are always a lot more of those).



But it seems like this is not true, because I'm not getting the correct answers for certain n. Any hints?

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