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There isn't a strong difference between strings and numbers in Perl. See Context tutorial, in particular More flavors of scalars, and/or http://stuff.mit.edu/iap/perl/slides/context_numeric.html.
#11929 First ask yourself `How would I do this without a computer?' Then have the computer do it the same way.
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