What will be the last (rightmost) digit in the decimal expansion of ?
Notation: is the factorial notation. For example, .
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Though there are many formal methods yet, I think this can be one of the solutions.
We notice that 1 0 0 ! has 24 trailing zeroes and hence the last non zero digit is the answer.
We notice that in 1 0 0 ! , the last non zero term of 1 0 ! is repeated again and again in the last non zero place.
I mean to say that the last non zero place in 1 1 × 1 2 × 1 3 × . . . . . . × 2 0 is same as that of the last non zero place in 1 × 2 × 3 × . . . . . . × 1 0 i.e. 1 0 !
Hence this will be repeated 10 times from 1 - 100 and hence the last digit will be the Last non zero digit in ( 1 0 ! ) 1 0
Thus, 1 0 ! = 3 6 2 8 8 0 0 i.e the last non zero digit is 8
Hence last digit of 8 1 0 = 2 3 0 = 2 2 = 4
The answer is 4
Friends if you don't like this you can find a more generalised and better method at (http://www.campusgate.co.in/2013/10/finding-right-most-non-zero-digit-of.html)