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of integers 1 through 10. The second ".." is the flip-flop operator, otherwise known as the flip floperator. Note that the number 5 is printed even though both "x == 4" and "x== 6" are false. This is because the expression remembers that "x == 4" was true on a previous iteration, and that "x == 6"
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