Without doing the full computation, can you tell whether the above statement is true or false? Click below for the answer.
You can probably guess that the statement is false, otherwise it wouldn't be much of a puzzle. The reasoning, though, is that the factorial for 50 must include the factors 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50, so it must end in at least five zeroes. The value above ends in only three zeroes, so it cannot be correct. (The correct value is 30414093201713378043612608166064768844377641568960512000000000000.)
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