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The following javascript code will evaluate to itself:

(function f () {return `(${f})()`})()

That is, if x = (function f () {return `(${f})()`;})(), then x === eval(x) is true.

Code snippets like this are known as quines. I first learnt about quines in a video by the AI researcher and youtuber Lex Fridman.

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