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This has been mentioned here before:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=230292

If your browser has Java applet support, here you can watch the regex succeed (demonstrating a number is composite) or fail (prime):

49: http://regex.powertoy.org/?pat=/^1%3F%24|^%2811+%3F%29\1+%24...

47: http://regex.powertoy.org/?pat=/^1%3F%24|^%2811+%3F%29\1+%24...



Yeah, it's a pretty old trick. I recall someone showing it off on #perl in about 1997.


Search for "Prime" on this insanely fun page, to see where it came from:

http://www.cpan.org/misc/japh

(Hmm... I'll use that as a fortune file. Just need to remove extra '%', if fortune barfs on them. Ah, haven't had fortune in my login since the 90s.)


Abigail! Bingo, that's who I recall posting it.




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