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Created July 22, 2018 23:49
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Find the number of factors of 5 in natural number n
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factors.java
public static int factorsOfFiveIn(int n) {
int factorsOfFive = 0;
while (n > 1) {
if (n % 5 == 0) factorsOfFive++;
n /= 5;
}
return factorsOfFive;
}
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jbrains commented Jul 23, 2018

As a post script, I found an alternative implementation of the larger exercise, which makes factorsOfFiveIn() obsolete. :) I'll publish the whole thing somewhere quite soon.

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