Question: With how many zeros does 1999! end?
Answer: 496
Proof: As follows.
The number of zeros at the end of 1999! corresponds to the exact number of times that 10 may be isolated as a factor from the multiplication string of the expanded form of 1999!:1999! = S1 = 1× 2 × 3 × 4 × 5 […]
Archive for August, 2006
things i love about debbie baumgartner
Published by Jacob S. Heiss August 29th, 2006 in Praxis. ClosedThat she concludes her emails with this ever so noteworthy line
No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep on picking ourselves up each time. We shall of course be very muddy and tattered children by the time we reach home, but the bathrooms are all ready, the towels put out, and the […]
a morning resolve
Published by Jacob S. Heiss August 12th, 2006 in Slice of life and Praxis. 1 CommentI didn’t get out of bed until roughly 11am today. With the lack of sleep from studying constantly all week plus Thursday’s trip to New York, I figured I’d better give myself a morning to catch up (and, boy, did I need it).
Today I realized how much difficulty I have giving myself permission to sleep […]
So I went to New York last night to see my sister and brother-in-law’s band, The Elanors. I’d been hemming and hawing about whether to make the trip since I was to take yet another Greek exam the morning after (i.e. today). On top of that, I thought that I’d probably like to invite somebody […]
I need to memorize the principle parts of five Greek verbs by Friday morning. Although this only comes to twenty-eight bits of information, it will be a small scale miracle if I can stuff them into my head along with everything else I’m supposed to have mastered thirty-five hours from now.
On the upside, I’m typing […]