Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Serhiy Storchaka Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Trailing zeros of 100! Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 20:28:36 +0200 Lines: 10 Message-ID: References: <52ccbc4b-616b-4186-8802-97aaa5b0d9af@googlegroups.com> <20160102103301.58b3e8ff@bigbox.christie.dr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de ynk4q4vNboJ/7C14cbHOXgViEo4y1B7OfTt6ixXZRNew== Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.005 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'lambda': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'tim': 0.24; 'header:In- Reply-To:1': 0.24; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'header:X -Complaints-To:1': 0.26; 'chase': 0.29; 'skip:i 20': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.37; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.62 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.202.118.166 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 In-Reply-To: <20160102103301.58b3e8ff@bigbox.christie.dr> X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20+ Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:101166 On 02.01.16 18:33, Tim Chase wrote: > or mathematically: > > sum(1 for _ in itertools.takewhile( > lambda x: n % (10**x) == 0, > itertools.count(1))) The mathematician would prove that the result is not larger than 100/4.