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The Puzzler

Ray says, "Equate this!"

RAY: Five plus four equals three to the second power-- or three squared. So you're using two, three, four, five, one plus sign, and one equal sign.


TOM: You didn't tell us that the two was much smaller than the other numbers.


RAY: Picky, picky, picky.

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