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Re: Trailing zeros of 100!

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On 02/01/2016 13:14, yehudak . wrote:
> Vlastimil,
> Thank you so much, but...
> All that is Chinese for me.
> Can you show a 'normal' Python code for me?
>
> Yehuda
>
> On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 2016-01-02 12:49 GMT+01:00  <katye2007@gmail.com>:
>>> Hi, newbie here!
>>> I'm trying to write a python program to find how many trailing zeros are
>> in 100! (factorial of 100).
>>> I used factorial from the math module, but my efforts to continue
>> failed. Please help.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Yehuda
>>> --
>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>>
>> Hi,
>> rather an illustration of the available tools in python, than a
>> (submittable) solution:
>>
>>>>> import re, math
>>>>> len(re.search(r"0*$", str(math.factorial(100))).group())
>> 24
>> [or the same code on more lines with some indentation - if it is
>> preserved via e-mail]
>>>>> len(
>> ...     re.search(
>> ...         r"0*$",
>> ...         str(
>> ...             math.factorial(100)
>> ...             )
>> ...         ).group()
>> ...     )
>> 24
>>>>>
>>
>> I.e. You need the length of the string resulting as the match of the
>> regular expression search for a pattern representing zero or more "0"
>> at the end of the input text, which is the string version of 100!
>>
>> Of course, there are other ways to get this result :-)
>>
>> regards,
>>      vbr
>>

I'll explain it if you stop top posting.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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Trailing zeros of 100! katye2007@gmail.com - 2016-01-02 03:49 -0800
  Re: Trailing zeros of 100! David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2016-01-02 23:19 +1100
  Re: Trailing zeros of 100! katye2007@gmail.com - 2016-01-02 04:34 -0800
  Re: Trailing zeros of 100! Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2016-01-02 13:44 +0100
  Re: Trailing zeros of 100! "yehudak ." <katye2007@gmail.com> - 2016-01-02 15:14 +0200
    Re: Trailing zeros of 100! Robin Koch <robin.koch@t-online.de> - 2016-01-02 16:57 +0100
      Re: Trailing zeros of 100! Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> - 2016-01-02 17:09 +0100
        Re: Trailing zeros of 100! Robin Koch <robin.koch@t-online.de> - 2016-01-02 17:56 +0100
          Re: Trailing zeros of 100! Bernardo Sulzbach <mafagafogigante@gmail.com> - 2016-01-02 15:24 -0200
          Re: Trailing zeros of 100! Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-01-03 08:57 +1100
            Re: Trailing zeros of 100! Robin Koch <robin.koch@t-online.de> - 2016-01-03 01:02 +0100
              Re: Trailing zeros of 100! Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-01-03 11:20 +1100
              Re: Trailing zeros of 100! srinivas devaki <mr.eightnoteight@gmail.com> - 2016-01-03 07:16 +0530
          Re: Trailing zeros of 100! Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> - 2016-01-03 11:53 +0100
  Re: Trailing zeros of 100! Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2016-01-02 09:57 -0500
  Re: Trailing zeros of 100! Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2016-01-02 16:24 +0100
  Re: Trailing zeros of 100! Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-01-02 15:30 +0000
  Re: Trailing zeros of 100! Robin Koch <robin.koch@t-online.de> - 2016-01-02 16:54 +0100
    Re: Trailing zeros of 100! Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-01-02 18:18 +0100
  Re: Trailing zeros of 100! Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2016-01-02 10:33 -0600
  Re: Trailing zeros of 100! "yehudak ." <katye2007@gmail.com> - 2016-01-02 19:34 +0200
  Re: Trailing zeros of 100! Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-01-02 17:44 +0000
    Re: Trailing zeros of 100! Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-01-03 00:36 +0100
  Re: Trailing zeros of 100! Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2016-01-02 20:28 +0200
  Re: Trailing zeros of 100! Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2016-01-02 19:29 +0100
  Re: Trailing zeros of 100! "yehudak ." <katye2007@gmail.com> - 2016-01-02 22:02 +0200
  Re: Trailing zeros of 100! "yehudak ." <katye2007@gmail.com> - 2016-01-02 22:09 +0200
  Re: Trailing zeros of 100! Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-01-02 21:25 +0000
  Re: Trailing zeros of 100! Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-01-02 21:26 +0000

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