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in reply to Re^2: Unable to Understand grep and hash use for prime no.
in thread Unable to Understand grep and hash use for prime no.

It looks like it is from "Beginning Perl" by Curtis Poe. Page 300 has the whole program, page 301 discusses is_prime() which is non-optimized trial division (checks divisibility by all integers up to sqrt(n)). Page 302 discusses the code in question which is introducing using a hash to cache the result.

In particular, the test suite includes duplicates in its list. That's why the hash is used.