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Too Many Trailing Zeros?

Authors: Ron Larham

In this paper I discuss Question 8 from the Chalkdust 2019 Christmas card. In particular I investigate the ratio of the number of trailing zeros of a factorial to its number of digits.

Comments: 5 Pages. Submitted to, and rejected by Mathematical Gazette, partially for being too chatty.

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[v1] 2020-12-06 12:31:10

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