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November 6, 2013

Abigail's regex to test for prime numbers - Neil Kandalgaonkar

The prolific Perl hacker Abigail is famous for posting enigmatic but ingenious one-liner scripts in her signatures on newsgroups.

perl -wle 'print "Prime" if (1 x shift) !~ /^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/' [number]