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IOQM_Pre RMO_Number Theory_day 5

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Legendre's Formula determines the highest power of a prime p that divides n! by summing the quotients floor(n/p) + floor(n/p²) + floor(n/p³) + ... until the terms become zero. For example, the highest power of 3 in 100! is floor(100/3) + floor(100/9) + floor(100/27) + floor(100/81) = 33 + 11 + 3 + 1 = 48, meaning 3^48 divides 100!. The number of trailing zeros in n! equals the number of times 5 appears in its prime factorization, calculated as floor(n/5) + floor(n/25) + floor(n/125) + ...