Codechef practice question help needed - find trailing zeros in a factorial
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I have been working on this for 24 hours now, trying to optimize it. The question is how to find the number of trailing zeroes in factorial of a number in range of 10000000 and 10 million test cases in about 8 secs.
The code is as follows:
#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
int count5(int a){
    int b=0;
    for(int i=a;i>0;i=i/5){
        if(i%15625==0){
            b=b+6;
            i=i/15625;
        }
        if(i%3125==0){
            b=b+5;
            i=i/3125;
        }
        if(i%625==0){
            b=b+4;
            i=i/625;
        }
        if(i%125==0){
            b=b+3;
            i=i/125;
        }
        if(i%25==0){
            b=b+2;
            i=i/25;
        }
        if(i%5==0){
            b++;
        }
        else
            break;
    }
    return b;
}
int main(){
    int l;
    int n=0;
    cin>>l; //no of test cases taken as input
    int *T = new int[l];
    for(int i=0;i<l;i++)
        cin>>T[i]; //nos taken as input for the same no of test cases
    for(int i=0;i<l;i++){
        n=0;
        for(int j=5;j<=T[i];j=j+5){
            n+=count5(j); //no of trailing zeroes calculted 
        }
        cout<<n<<endl; //no for each trialing zero printed
    }
    delete []T;
}   
Please help me by suggesting a new approach, or suggesting some modifications to this one.
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