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Re: count zeros in a number

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• Subject: [mg121818] Re: count zeros in a number
• From: dimitris <dimmechan at yahoo.com>
• Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 01:29:59 -0400 (EDT)
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On 2 =CF=EA=F4, 09:40, dimitris <dimmec... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Consider e.g. the number 24^24*55^55.
> This number ends with exactly 55 zeros as the following demonstrate
>
> In[201]:= Mod[24^24*55^55, 10^55]
> Mod[24^24*55^55, 10^56]
>
> Out[201]= 0
> Out[202]= 20000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
>
> What I want now is a way to count the zeros that a number ends without
> knowing in advance this number of zeros like in the above example.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Dimitris

Thanks a lot to everyone that replied.

Dimitris