I am confused. Where is the "infinite lazy list"?

In the implementation I posted, a variable like

my $lazy235 = challenge( 2, 3, 5 );
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is, effectively, an infinite lazy list. One can repeatedly extract an arbitrarily long prefix from it, using take, or repeatedly find its n-th element with something like:

sub nth {
  my $ll = shift;
  my $n = shift;
  die "Invalid argument: $n\n" if $n < 0;
  return $n == 0 ? head( $ll ) : nth( tail( $ll ), $n - 1 );
}
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For example, the following:

my @first_50 = take( 50, $lazy235 );
my @again    = take( 50, $lazy235 );

print "@first_50\n\n@again\n\n";

for ( map int( rand( 1000 ) ), ( 1 .. 5 ) ) {
  printf "%3d %d\n", $_, nth( $lazy235, $_ );
}
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prints out something like

0 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 14 15 16 18 20 21 22 24 25 26 27 28 30 32 33 34 
+35 36 38 39 40 42 44 45 46 48 50 51 52 54 55 56 57 58 60 62 63 64 65 
+66

0 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 12 14 15 16 18 20 21 22 24 25 26 27 28 30 32 33 34 
+35 36 38 39 40 42 44 45 46 48 50 51 52 54 55 56 57 58 60 62 63 64 65 
+66

347 474
857 1168
530 723
994 1355
579 789
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