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Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> wrote or quoted:
>We also do not want to introduce /any/ extra identifiers, nor paren-
>thesis.

  Here's without names and parens:

^[+-]?[0-9]+$|^[+-]?[0-9]+\.[0-9]+[eE][+-]?[0-9]+$|^[+-]?[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$|^[+-]?\.[0-9]+[eE][+-]?[0-9]+$|^[+-]?\.[0-9]+$|^[+-]?[0-9]+\.[eE][+-]?[0-9]+$|^[+-]?[0-9]+\.$|^[+-]?[0-9]+[eE][+-]?[0-9]+$

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