Greetings Monks, The following is a script for generating prime numbers. I hope that it works because at this point all of my hardware, except my trusty T1200 text processor is down. This is a terrible situation because my perl skills are rusting. None the less, I have uploaded this at a public access terminal and if any monk cares to email the output to neutrin0@cyberspace.org I would be inspired. Further more, I am curious about the nature of the range operator. I have utilized it's two incarnations in the following: 
#! /usr/bin/perl

use Math::BigInt ':constant';

my $i;
my $target;
my $flta;
my $fltb;
my $base;
my $exp;

my $i=1;
for $target(1...560){
flt($target);
print "$target is prime number $i";
if ($i==560){print "From $target and greater are the appearance of Car
+michael numbers,other primality tests are required.";}

sub flt{
$target=shift @_;
$exp=$target -1;
PRIMALITY: 
for $base(1..$exp){
$flta=$base**$exp;
$fltb=$flta%$target;
if ($fltb==1){
next PRIMALITY;
}else{
last}
$i=$i+1;
return $target;
}

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Retitled by davido from 'Primality'.

In reply to Prime number generation, and range operator by dReKurCe

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