Tricky Factorial

How many trailing number of zeros does base-10 numeral 1000 ! 1000! end with when represented in base 14?

Submit the value of your answer in base 10.

Notation : ! ! denotes the factorial notation .


The answer is 164.

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Tran Hieu
Jan 17, 2016

Let 1000 ! = A 1 4 k 1000! = A*14^k , in which A is not divided by 14. Then k will be the number of trailing zeros of 1000! in base 14.

In the expansion of 1000! there are 1000 7 = 142 \lfloor \frac{1000}{7} \rfloor=142 numbers divide by 7 7 , 1000 49 = 20 \lfloor\frac{1000}{49}\rfloor=20 number divide by 7 2 7^2 and 1000 343 = 2 \lfloor\frac{1000}{343}\rfloor=2 number divide by 7 3 7^3 , so the factoring of 1000! will have 7 162 7^{162} . Also we could easily see that 2 162 1000 ! 2^{162}|1000! , so we have k = 162 \boxed{162}

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