Totally useless but a little bit of fun with a silly mathematical property:

#!/usr/bin/env perl                                                   
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use strict;                                                           
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use warnings;                                                         
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use List::Util qw(sum);                                               
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# For each $n, convert $n to hex digits, add the digits together. If t
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# result has more than one hex digit, repeat this process adding the  
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# digits together. When there is only one hex digit remaining, if the 
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# digit is a '5', an 'a', or an 'f', the original number was divisible
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# by 5.                                                               
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for my $n (1..100) {                                                  
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    my $h = sprintf '%x', $n;                                         
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    while(length($h) > 1) {                                           
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        $h = sprintf '%x', sum(map {hex $_} split //, $h);            
    }                                                                 
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    print "$n is a multiple of 5\n" if $h =~ m/^[5af]$/;              
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}
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Output:

5 is a multiple of 5
10 is a multiple of 5
15 is a multiple of 5
20 is a multiple of 5
25 is a multiple of 5
30 is a multiple of 5
35 is a multiple of 5
40 is a multiple of 5
45 is a multiple of 5
50 is a multiple of 5
55 is a multiple of 5
60 is a multiple of 5
65 is a multiple of 5
70 is a multiple of 5
75 is a multiple of 5
80 is a multiple of 5
85 is a multiple of 5
90 is a multiple of 5
95 is a multiple of 5
100 is a multiple of 5
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