The point of a lot of these challenges is to be smart with your math as well
as your code. A brute force approach isn't going to work very well,
especially in this case. An integer with 7^20 trailing zeros isn't even
going to fit in your RAM.
An observation: every trailing zero implies a fac
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Date: Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Need help with Factorial algorithm using Python
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