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Find the number of trailing zeroes of 99 9 999 + 1 999^{999}+1 .


The answer is 3.

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Otto Bretscher
Feb 8, 2016

99 9 999 + 1 = ( 1 + 1000 ) 999 + 1 999000 ( m o d 1 0 6 ) 999^{999}+1=(-1+1000)^{999}+1\equiv 999000 \pmod{10^6} , by the binomial theorem, so that there are 3 \boxed{3} trailing zeroes.

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