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Write a program that will calculate the number of trailing zeros in a factorial of a given number.

N! = 1 * 2 * 3 * ... * N

Be careful 1000! has 2568 digits...

For more info, see: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Factorial.html

Examples

zeros(6) = 1
# 6! = 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 5 * 6 = 720 --> 1 trailing zero

zeros(12) = 2
# 12! = 479001600 --> 2 trailing zeros

Hint: You're not meant to calculate the factorial. Find another way to find the number of zeros.