Reputation: 111
I have return the code to find a factorial and to display trailing zeros at the end of the factorial, but the output is wrong... could you please help me to find the mistake?
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
int m = 1, i, N, count = 0;
scanf("%d", &N);
for (i = 1; i <= N; i++) {
m = m * i;
}
printf("%d", m);
while (m > 0) {
if ((m % 10) == 0) {
count = count + 1;
m = m / 10;
}
break;
}
printf("%d", count);
return 0;
}
Upvotes: 2
Views: 2512
Reputation: 1
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
int n,i,f=1,t,c=0;
printf("Enter number ");
scanf("%d",&n);
t=n;
for(i=1;t>=5;i++)
{
t=n/5;
c=c+t;
n=t;
}
printf("number of zeros are %d",c);
return 0;
}
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 145307
Your code only works for very small values of N
: up to 9
. For slightly larger values, you would need to add an else
keyword before the break
statement and you would get a correct result for a few more cases.
For larger values, you must compute the power of 5 that divides the factorial. You can do this incrementally by summing the power of 5 that divide each individual number up to and including N
.
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
int N, count;
if (scanf("%d", &N) != 1)
return 1;
/* only consider factors that are multiples of 5 */
count = 0;
for (int i = 5; i <= N; i += 5) {
for (int j = i; j % 5 == 0; j /= 5)
count++;
}
printf("%d\n", count);
return 0;
}
An even simpler and faster solution is this: compute the number of multiples of 5
less or equal to N
, add the number of multiples of 5*5
, etc.
Here is the code:
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
int N, count;
if (scanf("%d", &N) != 1)
return 1;
count = 0;
for (int i = N; (i /= 5) > 0;) {
count += i;
}
printf("%d\n", count);
return 0;
}
Upvotes: 6
Reputation: 32594
you have two problems
So the minimal changes produce :
int main()
{
int m=1,i,N,count=0;
scanf("%d",&N);
for(i=1;i<=N;i++)
{
m=m*i;
}
printf("%d\n",m); /* <<< added \n */
while(m>0)
{
if((m%10)==0)
{
count=count+1;
m=m/10;
}
else /* <<< added else */
break;
}
printf("%d\n",count); /* <<< added \n */
return 0;
}
after the changes :
pi@raspberrypi:/tmp $ ./a.out
5
120
1
pi@raspberrypi:/tmp $ ./a.out
10
3628800
2
Of course that supposes first you are able to compute the factorial without overflow
I also encourage you to check a value was read by scanf, checking it returns 1
Upvotes: 1