A number theory problem by osman mohamad
Number Theory
Level
2
What is the number of trailing zeros of ?
The answer is 12.
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1 solution
You just need to find the number of "5"'s in the expression. You can do so by taking the floor of 50/5 and adding that to the floor of 50/25 which gets you an answer of 1 2