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		elwell on March 9, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is this prime? At least write your own prime checking algorithm!

andrewstuart2 on March 9, 2016 [–]

He initially did. Then decided to reuse the one already provided. The goal of cheating in this manner, after all, would be to match exactly the implementation the original programmer used. Even if it was buggy.

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