Re: Triangles and More

2004-08-03 Thread Keith C. Ivey
Michael W Thelen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The first time I ever saw it was in a JAPH by Abigail: > > perl -wle 'print "Prime" if (1 x shift) !~ /^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/' > > found here: http://www.cpan.org/misc/japh The earliest occurrence I've been able to find is this message by Abigail in comp

Re: Triangles and More

2004-08-02 Thread Michael W Thelen
* Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-08-02 16:51]: > It reminds me of someone's clever way of determining if a number is prime, > which (at least in my version) turns out to be of similar length: > > -l print 0|(1x pop)!~/^(11+)\1+$/ > > I'm writing the above from memory, so I'm not sure if it's exa